FAU president sets priorities on campus housing, research, student retention
By Samantha Frank
September 1, 2010

During her first State of the University address as president of Florida Atlantic University, Mary Jane Saunders said that her priorities are to increase student retention, to turn the university into more of a residential campus and to build upon existing research opportunities.

“There is no more important mission for our society than the one that calls upon you and me to do everything in our power to put a degree within the reach of every student who’s willing to work hard for it,” said Saunders to a crowd of about 500 people this morning on FAU’s Boca Raton campus.

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