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Other notable accomplishments included: * Enrollment
of 32,000 students, an all-time high * Re-accreditation
by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)
None of these milestones, however, would have much worth without institutional values to give meaning and purpose to our institutional pursuits. Diversity is a fulcrum around which those pursuits revolve, serving both as expression of core values we hold and a reflection of whom we are as a community of students, scholars, and staff. Thus, it's understandable that we celebrate this diversity. This magazine provides an opportunity both for us to share our diversity with the nation and the world and to reinforce its importance and meaning within our university and larger community. I'm, therefore, pleased to join our president and the chair of our Diversity Initiative and publisher in commending it to you. I do so on my own behalf and on behalf of Managing Editor Larry Lunsford and the rest of Editorial Board. Permit me to use this opportunity to thank them for their individual and collective contributions to the success of this publication and to extend the same sentiment to all others--near and far--who labored to make this venture a success. Read on! Learn about some of the things that give meaning to our milestones! Ivelaw L. Griffith,
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Florida
International University greeted the turn of the millennium with
some inc redible
institutional milestones achieved in 2000, two of which--designation
by the Carnegie Foundation as a doctoral/research intensive institution
and establishment of a Phi Beta Kappa chapter--are cited in President
Maidique's message in this magazine.
