PRESIDENT S MESSAGE A World of Change by Paul H. Thompson President Weber State University Much of your future ongratulations on your graduation learning will take place from Weber State informally, through reading, University. I thinking and talking with your know the sacrifice peers. But you also should and hard work you have given continue to learn in formal to reach this goal. As you go settings such as classes, about future endeavors, I’m conferences and seminars. sure you will make valuable Weber State University contributions in your careers, would like to be a part of your families and communities. learning process. We commend your family Let me encourage you to participate in and friends who have helped conferences and seminars you. They rightly share in the sponsored by Weber State, and excitement of your graduation. in other programs offered by The faculty and staff of Continuing Education. Give us Weber State University also your ideas about those take pride in your accomplish- programs, and help us improve ments. They are committed to our services to the community. You also will benefit by your long-term success. staying in touch with our The University’s 105th commencement ceremony marks an important day for faculty. you. As you leave Weber State discussions and by working You can continue to learn from them through to further your education or Paul H. Thompson enter the world of work, you with them on new developments in your field. And in enter a world vastly different “The only thing we can “Men and women are return, your experiences in the from the one you grew up in. expect in the foreseeable future beginning to recognize ... that changing world will give our The world is changing so fast, is change itself, and at an ever- unless they take preventative faculty additional insights. in fact, that today’s graduates accelerating pace. The pace has action, they will become as will become obsolete unless long since become so rapid that obsolete as last year’s head- your graduation. their rate of learning keeps every individual is faced with lines. They are discovering that the best as you continue your pace with the rate of change. innumerable, novel situations ... the only way to survive in a commitment to learning and Dee Ward Hock, former which have no past parallel.” world where so much is new embark on this “commence- If you wish to thrive in every day 1s to develop a ment” of your career. year’s commencement speaker, tomorrow’s world you must process of continual self- has said: continue to learn. One author renewal.” president of VISA and this wrote: Again, congratulations on We wish you