UWindsor president provides a look ahead

As students return this fall, it is impossible for them not to notice changes to the campus, says UWindsor president Alan Wildeman in an e-mail update Tuesday to faculty and staff:

“The Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation is nearing completion, the construction of the Integrated Parking/Innovation Centre has begun, Cody Hall and the former Drama Building are gone, and there is new landscaping in front of the CAW Student Centre.”

An open house September 19 will give members of the university community and the general public an opportunity to review the full capital transformation plan that is now underway. It runs 4 to 7 p.m. in the CAW Student Centre’s Ambassador Auditorium.

Dr. Wildeman’s message also provided a preliminary estimate of the University’s operating budget projections for 2013/14.

“The pressure on the operating budgets at universities in Ontario has taken on a relentless feel to it,” he writes. “Aligning revenues and expenses, focusing on enrolment, and continually striving to find ways to be more productive with the resources we have are the three options we can control.”

Read the entire document on the President’s Web site.