University Business - September 2011 - (Page 44)

Looking Back Rethinking September 11, 2001 David A. Caputo president of pace from 2000 to 2007 ace University’s main new York CitY offices in one of the towers and who all managed to escape before campus is four blocks from the world trade Center site. it fell…the daily open meetings we held to answer the many queson 9/11/2001, Pace had a program housed in the wtC, tions (is the lingering smoke toxic? is it true there is radioactivity in and several residence halls and leased apartments within the area? what are our plans in case of another attack?). a few blocks. i can best describe and reflect on the chaos and pain a handwritten thank you note from a national guardsman who of 9/11 and the days that followed through a series of personal spent over a week in our admissions area…the medical triage cenrecollections: ter located in our main building to deal with injuries…the new a senior vice president who without any regard for his personal York City fire and police officers who, after hours of working on safety left a midtown meeting of trustees and key staff members to the debris pile, showered in our gymnasium building and joined us oversee developments on campus, arriving just moments before the for meals in our cafeteria…the total disdain for those who used first tower fell…numerous faculty members who left campus only the tragedy for personal economic and political gain. after they were sure their students were leaving safely…my senior the university’s collective will to meet mayor Giuliani’s reexecutive assistant volunteering to stay to help as we reached out to quest that we reopen the week after the attack…the concerned our remaining students…members of the counlook our returning faculty, staff, and students Even 10 years later, seling staff walking the eighteen floors of our had as we met them at the subway exits when main downtown residence hall to offer help and we reopened…the decision to tell our students I often find myself reassurance to our students…an ash-covered and that their tuition for the fall semester would ghost-like new York fireman arriving to reassure thinking about that day be refunded at any time if they could not deal his daughter that he was ok, and the tearful rewith all that they had to deal with…numerous and the weeks, union when she realized he was safe…a call from improvisations and adaptations to the loss of months, and years my son over a thousand miles away, wanting to electrical power, lowered water pressure, ramthat followed. make sure i was ok and who somehow was able pant rumors, and occasional despair on the part to reach me on a landline while chaos was hapof the community…seeing the twin beams of pening everywhere…my concern for my wife and my other chil- light for weeks afterwards from our midtown apartment…walking dren, who were in other parts of the city. deserted streets which used to be crowded and vibrant…the methe security directors who arranged for new York City transit morial services on each of our campuses and their meaning for so buses to help us transport our remaining residence hall students to many…the seemingly endless and tragic funerals for all of those our westchester campus…the countless hours of work by those who lost their lives…The New York Times’ vignettes of those who who helped move many of our administrative functions to that died and the great loss of talent and ability taken from us…Pace’s campus…the sinking feeling as i walked the campus late tuesday recognition of those we lost with the first permanent memorials on and realized the extent of the devastation…trying to understand our various campuses…the planning and implementing of new how this event could have happened and what we could have done emergency procedures (redundancy in all that we do) based on to be better prepared…the need to muster all the emotional and what we had learned. financial resources we could to meet the challenges we faced…the the overwhelming gratitude for the support from our Board frequent personal prayers for strength and wisdom…the concern of trustees as we made numerous decisions, and their encouragefor all of the lives lost in new York, the Pentagon, and Pennsylva- ment to do what was best for our faculty, staff, and students…the nia…the enduring sadness on learning of the personal losses for so support from my colleagues and friends around the city, the counmany more…Hearing from our staff members who were in their try, and the world—the absolute belief in the goodness of our 44 | September 2011 universitybusiness.com P http://www.universitybusiness.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of University Business - September 2011

University Business - September 2011
Contents
Editor's Note
College Index
Ad Index
Behind the News
Viewpoint
Financial Aid
Money Matters
Internet Technology
Shared Governance
Acknowledging Achievement
Looking Back
Spotlight on Procurement
EduComm 2011
End Note

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