UMass Boston - Winter/Spring 2007-2008 - (Page 6) Values and Vision, Bricks and Mortar Chancellor J. Keith motley pledges to keep faith with the university’s roots even as he charts a course through change, innovation, and renewal. bY SCott leibS n a bright June morning in 1992, J. Keith Motley surveyed an eager crowd of promising students and noted that “they are learning that you have a responsibility to develop yourself intellectually and socially, and to be responsible to your family and your community.” He wasn’t describing a college class but rather a small army of elementaryschool-aged boys who were enrolled in a mentoring program that Motley directed. “We want to provide some stability and consistency,” Motley told a local reporter, joking that while a focus on consistency can “drive the kids crazy,” it was an essential element of the foundation he hoped to provide them. Talk about consistency. Fifteen years later, Motley looked out at a Campus Center crowd of students, faculty, academics, and community leaders and delivered a Convocation Day speech that echoed precisely the same themes he had stressed in the early ’90s: the roles that intellectual and social development, responsibility, family, and community play in defining success. Two months later, at his inauguration, he described the similarities he felt between the tight-knit Pittsburgh neighborhood of his youth and the UMass Boston community that has come to mean so much to him. Some things change, of course. In 1992 Motley was an associate dean at Northeastern University and the director of its African-American Institute; O “It will be a 25-year journey to transform this campus,” Motley says, “but we will see a lot of improvements in the next five to ten years.” he wore shorts and a t-shirt and needed a whistle to keep his young charges in line. Today he is the newest chancellor of UMass Boston, and he delivered his inauguration address in the Clark Athletic Center dressed in academic n umass boston
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