2019 State of the University Address
State of the University Address, Sept. 27, 2019
Good morning. 很高兴今天在2019年大学国情咨文演讲中见到大家，很高兴站在大家面前.
Thanks to everyone who made this happen. This doesn’t just spring up overnight. Someone has to plan it. Someone has to order the balloons out there. The Singers, I think they’re awesome. 我们的后备军官训练队仪仗队表现出色，我非常感激能成为这样一个努力工作的团队的一员.
And what a year it has been aboard the good ship Argo. Like Jason and our namesake, the Argonauts, we have found our golden fleece, or maybe I should say our golden fleeces.
We earned top rankings in the U.S. News and World Report. Our athletes have pushed us to our 101st conference championship. For three years in a row, we have welcomed a class of National Merit Finalists; and for the third time out of four years, 我们的SGA主席被选为佛罗里达学生协会主席，并被任命为理事会成员.
We conferred our 100,000th degree last December, 我们期待已久的实验室科学附件本周开放，为研究和学习提供了更多的机会. 我们的网络安全中心加强了我们在市中心的存在, 我们推出了5个新项目，其中7个项目获得了持续的或新的专业认证.
我们被选为2022年NCUR会议的东道主，这将带来5,000 of the top students across the United States and their advisors to this campus and this community; we are by far the smallest town ever to be selected, 但我认为这充分说明了这所大学的声誉.
同样，本学年，我们的员工将在三月份收到生活费的增加. 我们被评为“最适合工作的大学”，在基于绩效的资助指标中，我们获得了94项创纪录的成绩. You did that! Give yourselves a hand.
这是一份伟大成就的清单，我们都为此感到自豪, but they have one thing in common. And what do you think that is? “Nobody did it alone.” Say that again? “Nobody did it alone.” One more time? “Nobody did it alone.” Nobody did it alone! That is absolutely right.
Aboard the Argo, 如果我们要找到更多的黄金“羊毛”，并在海上的危险中幸存下来, we need to look to the ones who are sailing beside us. And if I were recruiting for a long and treacherous journey, some of the people I would want on my crew would include Dr. Greg Tomso和他优秀的荣誉学生们帮助我们在校园里建造和维护了一个美丽的社区花园，供我们欣赏.
芭芭拉·拉尔森和托马斯·阿斯穆斯以及他们的部门同事在校园里率先推出了有趣的STEAM艺术装置.
The students of the UWF nursing program, 在NCLEX考试中平均首次通过率为99%的学生和获得100%通过率的临床健康科学学生.
Dr. 芭芭拉·怀特和她的会计学生为我们社区的低收入者完成了近500份纳税申报表.
Dr. 雪莉·哈特内特(Sherry Hartnett)每年都会举办一次女性领导力会议，座无虚席.
The Office of Equity and Diversity, Student Accessibility, International Affairs, Honors Trio, SGA, Innovation Institute, University Communications, 是谁支持多元化和包容性的努力，使我们获得了第四个HEED奖.
Ellen Till, of Business and Auxiliary Services, for the remodeling of our food arena, our food services area, so that we could have a Chick-fil-A.
The UWF grounds staff: Jeff Etheridge, Ron Byrd, Kyle Pruczinski, Travis Wicker and our cross country coach, Caleb Carmichael, 是谁为北美任何一所大学举办的第一次公园跑步活动开辟了道路，并成为周六早上的一件事和一个大型社区活动.
我们的三位教员:戴安·斯科特，比尔·埃文斯，艾琳·金，他们在领导委员会任职
C.A. Weis小学已经将学校成绩从F提高到C.
So what shall we do with this one wild and precious year? To be sure, there are challenges ahead for the crew of the Argo.
Recently, 我把总统的内阁成员召集到一起，请他们概述一下他们面临的最大问题. I want to tell you, it was not a fun day. 我们的问题是真实存在的，而且很大，包括一些关键部门人手不足, to a space crunch, to new restrictions on budgets, to needed expansion in housing and health services, 关键的延期维修需求和提高四年毕业学生数量的绝对授权.
我们面临着以有限的增加收入的能力来处理所有这些问题. 用我的一位内阁成员的话来说，“我们需要一艘更大的船.” But take heart, there is hope.
在过去的一年里，我们花了很多时间来纪念一些真正的历史事件. Last March, 高大的埃尔卡诺号船来到彭萨科拉纪念麦哲伦环球航行500周年. Now, 麦哲伦当时正在寻找一条通往香料群岛的西路，这个故事给了我们很多教训.
First, he knew where he wanted to be, but he didn’t have a map. He had a clear direction, but it was just West. And he was in a very, very, very small boat. They suffered stormy seas, hunger, thirst, disease, mutinies, a lot of our weekly events, deadly conflicts, and, not to be a downer, but Magellan didn’t get to finish the trip. 他在中途被杀，但他的队友完成了他的工作，创造了历史.
In July, 在人类登月50周年之际，我们很多人都享受了很多庆祝活动. 1962年，当肯尼迪总统承诺将人类送上月球时，这是一个疯狂的想法. Up until that time, all we had been able to do was watch our rockets keel over, spin out of control, or blow up. 肯尼迪只是拒绝让现有的现实驱动他的国家的未来.
我喜欢读Ozan Varol关于创新思维的博客，他鼓励我们把目标定得比你认为明智的要高，去追求别人认为疯狂的想法, because the day before a major breakthrough, it is just a crazy idea. What you strive for becomes your ceiling. Go for mediocrity and at best mediocrity is what you’ll get. But if you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everybody else’s success.
Magellan pursued a crazy idea. Kennedy pursued a crazy idea. Jason和Argonauts追求的是一个疯狂的想法，如果你在4年前告诉我们《火博体育》可以在指标上获得94分, we would’ve said it was “a crazy idea” but we didn’t.
现在，让我们停下来思考一些火博体育官网的疯狂想法. I have three: Coach Shinnick and Dave Scott, let’s win all the games; Howard Reddy, let’s raise enough money to scholarship every student at the University of West Florida; and Provost Ellenberg, let’s raise that graduation rate to 100%.
We’re Argos. No limits!
谢谢你们今天的到来，你们知道我有多感激你们. 你还在上班，所以好好享受同志情谊吧，我们回去工作吧. Thanks for coming.
University of West Florida President Martha D. 桑德斯回顾了过去一年的非凡成就，然后在周五的2019年大学国情咨文演讲中把注意力转向了“大目标”, September 27, 2019.
