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Well the way I like to describe this job-. People say what do you do and I say I'm the vice chancellor

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and they say well what does that mean? [Laughs] Most people don't have any idea.

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If you look at the division of student affairs

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you will find a lot of different departments.

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You've got Army ROTC and you've got music and you've got the student health center and then you've got Greek life, and I could go on and on.

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My point is that there are a lot of different departments

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in the division and they do different things

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but in the final analysis they are all doing the same thing,

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and that is they are providing either a program or a service

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that is designed to have a significant impact on the education and the development of our students,

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and that's why I use this,

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"Students First," because that applies to everybody in the division.

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It doesn't matter what department you're in or what job you have,

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I want everybody to always think about whether or not what they're doing is going to have a strong positive impact on our students.

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So my job, the one word I would use to describe my job,

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is leadership.

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My job is to provide the leadership for all these people who are in all of these departments and

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to support them and provide the vision

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that I want them to follow, and my vision is the one I just showed you on my cup, "Students First,"

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and the other important value that I've emphasized has been the one on diversity that I mentioned earlier.

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I want everybody to work hard to create that environment that welcomes everybody regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, or handicap, or disability.

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So the role of a leader is to provide a vision,

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to ensure that a good team of people are in place,

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and to support that team and motivate that team and recognize them when they've done a great job.