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As Chancellor Dan Ritchie prepares
to switch hats from that of the Chancellor to that of the Chair of the
Board of Trustees, I want to pay tribute to him as the master architect
of internationalization at the University of Denver.
It was his initiative to assess the nature and scope
of interna-tional activities at the University and to establish this Office.
It was he who took the most bold and ambitious undertaking of establishing
the Cherrington Global Scholars Program. When most universities are struggling
to maintain their basic international projects, he went to the Trustees
with this forward-looking concept and obtained their blessing, at a great
cost to the University but no additional expense to the students.
I consider this legacy to be as profound as any left
by a university chancellor. My colleagues and I at the Office of Internationalization
salute and thank Chancellor Ritchie and the Board of Trustees for their
vision and their bold action, which have undoubtedly made this University
an unequalled leader in the area of international education.
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