Why do we celebrate? A team approach is used while working For my parents, life was about survival and college was mere a fairy tale of opportunity that people living in double-wide trailers did not get. These traits are critical if we are to be great founders. Fraters, in celebration of 120 years of Tau Kappa Epsilon, I ask that you all join me in a cohesive effort to embrace our values, expand our engagement, and fulfill our desire to be Better Men for a Better World. Founders Day. Part of any honest reflection on the past requires honoring the parts that fill us with pride and critically analyzing where we have fallen short. Let me give a few examples. All of these bills expanded access and support. WebFounders Day is extremely important for the school for two reasons: firstly, it is a day on which we celebrate achievement our many achievements, individual and collective; second, it is an important occasion for the whole school to be together, to do things together, and to remember that we are an important and strong community the whole is Frater Lester H. Martin, the first Grand Prytanis, was once quoted saying that our Founders set out to create an organization for the development of men to enable them to cope with the world when their school days were over and when they would be forced against the stern realities of life.. Agreeing with Miss Thompson regarding the importance of encouraging student travel, he worked with Dr. Sven Knudson of the University of Copenhagen to We believe in high expectations and have a passion for learning. It is always the result of high intentions, sincere effort, and intelligent execution. Second, using our research capacity we will tackle critical challenges faced by society and all of humanity in general. Significantly, more than one thousand Tekes since June made their first gift to the TKE Foundation through Life Loyal Teke (LLT). Lets commemorate and celebrate those that came before us, while preparing and leading for the generations yet to come. To achieve what our Founders set out to accomplish. Our membership is strong, our staff is top notch, and our volunteers give their heart and soul for the betterment of others. o Princeton Review named us a College that Pays You Back and Kiplingers named us a Best Value College for 2016. Its transformation lay in the future during WWII, the Cold War, and the tech boom in Silicon Valley. When you do so, you embody excellence, live our bond and showcase the value our Founders fought for in the early days of our formation. In the age of digital media, nothing is forgotten and no fraternity is immune from these societal pressures. January 18, 2018. These milestones are points of pride, but also events that we should think about deeply as we consider our own contributions to Wake Forest today. First, we seek to expand our work as a national model for others on approaches to helping students succeed, in not just a few disciplines but across the board, and to do so in ways that will impact the real world. Welcome to our 2022 Founders Day Convocation. The park hosts more than 130 companies and provides more than 2,500 direct and indirect jobs with associated annual income of $165 million. In 1924, at the Silver Jubilee Conclave, our founders addressed the Grand Chapter and clearly set forth the inspiration which led to their founding of our fraternity. These initiatives and programs are designed to ensure that students learn and make significant progress toward completion. It means pushing for positive change, not settling for simply getting on with our work and studies. At the beginning of that fateful week, I was 500 miles away from home and knew no one on campus. As we know, scores of other organizations had to amend their membership criteria and adapt to changing societal and federal laws as the years passed. If you dont know where youve come from, you dont know where youre going. Frater Settles and I shared another bond besides TKE. Connect today with the Fraternity on MyTKE.org. Many on campus simply wanted to get on with their work and studies. My point was that we needed to set our sights high. As you may know from our Declaration of Principles, We believe that a fraternity should be a brotherhood in conduct as well as in name., Secrecy that is promoted for selfish purposes or utilized to cloak fraternal wrong-doings we unsparingly condemn., We believe that at no other period in the life of a man is the time more opportune for the fostering of such qualities than during the years of his college career.. Williams became Grand Prytanis in 1944 following a series of unexpected resignations on the Grand Council during the Second World War, there were only 11 chapters and about 100 collegiate members of Tau Kappa Epsilon at that time. Like many of our newest students, Im still learning about Wake Forest learning what makes this place so special and how we can contribute in our own way to the Universitys distinctive story. They wanted to establish a fraternity of men whose primary requirement for membership would be based on personal worth and character, not the wealth he possessed, or the connections he had, or the lineage from which he came. This is part of how we recognize that traditions like people need to grow, evolve, and expand to welcome more people into our unfolding story. His doctoral student and postdoctoral fellow, Victoria DSouza, was granted tenure as full professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Harvard University. o Might we go the way of some other campuses that have welcomed alumni, especially older and retired alums, to live on campus to enjoy campus resources and to lend their time and talents to enrich the campus community? We know what we want to become and how to get there. We are becoming a stronger and healthier organization by coupling our ever-present grit and determination with bold initiatives and an overarching commitment to excellence. Lets keep it real, Paulette C. Walker told her sorority sisters and others at their Founders Day luncheon held in Downtown Jackson. Along with 87 other universities, we are working together to share best practices and guiding principles about truth-telling projects that address injustice in our histories. We were born a small fraternity at a small school in Illinois and have grown into a great international organization. Moreover, we had a special place in this expansion. Being a TKE for Life means acting on our values to make a better life for you and those around you. And so I think of the way we have embraced these challenges and joined NAEs Grand Challenges Scholars Program, preparing students to tackle them. and strives to be great in all we do. Be progressive forward looking The mission of Tau Kappa Epsilon is not another thing on the plate. You can use phrases such as the following: * According to. In TKE, the term fraternity man took on a new and positive meaning, something that has endured to this day 116 years later. In celebrating our 116th birthday, we know our TKE work is not done nor should it be. These challenges have a deleterious impact on the Fraternitys ability to sustain the momentum we have created over the last several years. With a vision of forward-thinking, growth for Tau Kappa Epsilon, the Grand Council of TKE has released our 2020-2025 Strategic Plan. As we move forward we are looking in the mirror, asking questions: What are our challenges? We share equipment, our faculty are developing joint proposals to NIH, we administer a joint MD-PhD program, and we send large numbers of students to professional schools social work, law, medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy. We now have 15 major research centers on campus that report to either the provost or the vice president for research, and another 10 established by our colleges and departments. As the Grand Prytanis of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, I am only a temporary occupant of the Office I was elected to hold. The key point is that more students are succeeding today than ever. While waiting to board my flight, another person in line noticed my TKE polo shirt and initiated a conversation. After WWII, all of this changed, quite dramatically. As I reflect back on the impact of our great Fraternity, I'm encouraged by the progress we've made just in this past year. If you are unable to make a gift, share your time and your talent. I love the Fraternity. My name is First Lieutenant Through an $18 million BUILD grant from the National Institutes of Health, we are extending best practices from our scholar programs to the entire student population. We are a university on the move. It has withstood the test of time since 1899. WebA special occasion speech can often give pride to the individual being honored. Celebrate with your fellow Fraters by sharing on social media the memories of your fraternal experience using #IAMTKE. The 50th anniversaryalong with our parallel process of strategic planning and Middle States Accreditationhave given us a chance to reflect on our growth, where we are today, and our aspirations for the future. We have been changing attitudes about who can succeed as we continue focusing on improving undergraduate teaching. Our social science research productivity, though, was much greater than would be reflected in the dollar amount when taking into account the number of publications per faculty member. A pillar of this history is our belief in the character of every man in our membership. WebFounders Day Address Friday, October 28, 2011 By Dr. R.K. Sinha Director, BARC Dr Banerjee, Chairman, AEC, Senior Members of the DAE Family, Esteemed Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my proud privilege to extend a warm welcome to all of you to the Founders Day functions scheduled today, to commence with this mornings event here. o We are sending our students to the most prestigious graduate and professional programs in the country and our doctoral graduates hold faculty positions at research and comprehensive universities across the nation. We celebrate this energy and are working to support and expand it. Faculty are using technology to teach across borders from Portugal to India. Collegiate chapters broke recruitment records despite social distancing. As they embarked on their journey as an active member, they were instructed on the rich history of our organization. Today I have been endowed with the responsibility of speaking on foundation day. It has been said and believed since long that for any great work to be done, it is important to have the right foundation. It actually forms the platform on which the future stands. This exactly stands true for Foundation Day of school. I hope you are as excited and energized as I am to be at Utah State University for fall 2022. Because of public health restrictions, many chapters are unable to recruit new members. Our alumni have a strong impact. 8)Prize distribution. Our legacy of fundraising is nearly as lengthy as our existence. As a collegiate Frater serving as an officer, we learn a sense of duty to our chapter and personal responsibility. The speech is a means of showing ones appreciation through words of praise and gratitude. In fact, it is and will never be completely done. We have indeed built a better world through building better men. Yet, I know that future generations of Tekes will read about this time in a future edition of The Teke Guide. With faith in our heritage, with confidence in our future, with unswerving commitment to the magnificent obsession" and with fidelity to mission, the best days of Tau Kappa Epsilon are ahead. o Our faculty across disciplines have won a range of impressive awards. We would urge, therefore, as a fraternity dealing with up-to-date problems, that we should never forget the principles of true fraternalism as involved in the mutual helpfulness and the common ambition that are necessary in carrying this out. As responsible Fraters, we know we must constantly strive for excellence in our daily actions and demand the same from our fellow Fraters. In 1899, a group of men living together in Bloomington, IL and attending Illinois Wesleyan University got together to form a study group. 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250. WebIt is my privilege and pleasure to welcome all of you here on the auspicious day of our school completing its 25 years and celebrating its Silver Jubilee function. o Times Higher Education has ranked UMBC in the Top 100 of its Global 150 Under 50 Universities a ranking we no longer qualify for as of today! Today, I am here to tell you that we still embrace this goal and that, along with such great universities as Stanford, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon, Arizona State, Georgia Tech, and the University of Michigan, we are on a list of the most innovative national universities in the nation! We were in the top the top 20 nationally in research in these fields. Phi Delta Theta not only rejected them for not being conventional, but frowned on the name Knights of Classic Lore and suggested we start a new fraternity. It was the year that Ed Reynolds became the first full-time black student to enroll at Wake Forest. Common ambitions and ideals were necessary. Wake Forest University does not rest on a rigid slab foundation but on a growing number of piers and beams that together hold us up and expand our footprint. That fundamental membership requirement of personal worth and character has withstood the test of time, and its as relevant today as ever. These accomplishments and so many more are a very real and proud tribute to the hard work and dedication of our active members and of the alumni volunteer teams who educate and support our mission. I wanted to take a moment to share my journey. And the case for putting that campus in the Baltimore region was growing as well. We celebrate to commemorate the humble beginnings of our beloved sorority, Thanking all our customers on the Foundation Day of our company. And, most of all, we still believe in hard work. From modest beginnings, we have solidified our place as a Doctoral University with Higher Research Activity, as designated by the current Carnegie Classification. Good Our philanthropic work for the St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital and other charitable organizations has a profound effect on the lives of those around us. We are now building on the foundation laid by our founding generation. To safeguard the mission of Tau Kappa Epsilon, we need untiring and dedicated Tekes who will marshal the Fraternity toward greater financial sustainability and emerge from this crisis stronger than before. As I travel TKE Nation, I consistently see the positive impact of our chapters, our alumni, our headquarters staff and our Foundation. Happy Founders' Day Fraters. This remains our call to action. The increase for African Americans over this period was from 3.8 to 22.5 percent. The U.S. Military Academy held its annual Founders Day dinner March 16 in the Cadet Mess Hall. o Indeed, we can report that for the 2009 cohort, after six years: He was, as am I, a member of Rotary and its amazing how many civic leaders are members of a fraternity or sorority. This is such a special moment for UMBC, one of twelve institutions in the University System of Maryland, which is led by Chancellor Robert Caret and the Board of Regents, chaired by James Brady. We fear that the loss of scholastic achievement may be traced to the artificial tendency of making social qualities the only test of membership-rather than the essentials of a strong, vigorous, aggressive manhood that stands for the highest and best things in life. I feel it is needless to say something about the importance and value of today for all of us. For the life of our campus: For our broader engagement: In the decade or so after WWII, the GI Bill provided the opportunity for many young peoplemainly white mento go to college. And UMBC is widely regarded as a national model for inclusive excellence in a research university. The State of Maryland and other sources have generously provided almost three-quarters of a billion dollars in developing and building state-of-the-art facilities for instruction, research, and student life for the 20-year period from 2000 to 2020. Not having an exclusionary clause for membership was groundbreaking and forward thinking. I was born the son of a car mechanic and a hairstylist. Our emergence as a model research university can be traced to many factors. We have a strong national reputation for integrating undergraduates in mentored research. She went on to explain how worried she was about his decision to join a fraternity and after not hearing from him for a period of time, she had thought he might be dead. However, this time it was a mom mentioning her son had just joined TKE at a school in Ohio. Our partnerships have deepened and matured over the decades. Fraters, on this Founders Day and all days, I love the Fraternity! o The latest one-year retention rate for full-time, first-time freshmen from the first to the second year is the highest ever at 87.2 percentwith little variation among racial/ethnic groups. * Events like this always remind me of one of my favorite quotes. Paradoxically at this moment in time, Tau Kappa Epsilon needs the aid of its men. o We have a new and growing partnership with the Naval Academy, in cybersecurity research. In 1902, our medical school. Start by Today marks the 120th anniversary of the founding of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. The additional budget funding and income from our endowment allow us to hire new faculty and staff as enrollments grow, expand academic programs, better support our students through increased financial aid, and grow our health and wellness initiatives for the campus. His Excellency Atiku Abubakar, GCON, Founder of American University of Nigeria His Excellency Rt. UMBC, since its founding, has been a place for people of all backgrounds to participate equally in higher education, preparing them for meaningful lives and careers, working to solve the problems of humanity. As a scientist, Im accustomed to asking lots of questions, but my own way of thinking about Founders Day centers on one question in particular: What does it mean to be a founder? As Grand Prytanis on this Founders Day, I declare that now is the time for all hands on deck. Lessons you learn from the Fraternity can make us better fathers, neighbors, community leaders and influence how we excel in our careers. Change, both significant and vital, will require concerted efforts and meaningful plans for implementation. Academic Programs and Success 7)Guest introduction. All of which are components of a championship culture. After all, without it, we would not be where we are today. o This spring, Michael Summers, Robert E. Meyerhoff Chair for Excellence in Research and Mentoring, University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Howard Hughes Investigator, was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences. As we mark the 124th Founders' Day in the history of our beloved Fraternity, we celebrate the 1,549 men who have officially joined the Fraternity for Life this past semester. * Theres a quote that has always stuck with me. Dear Sisters, We send warm greetings to each of you on the 122nd anniversary of AOIIs founding. We are here today and we are who we are today because of many foundings and many founders. We are forward-looking and responsive. o Many of our studentsincluding those in the Humanities Scholars Programspend at least a semester in study abroad. It was easier for us to do this by effecting an organization of a brotherly character for mutual helpfulness. History will be the judge of that and of the decisions we make now to sustain Tau Kappa Epsilon for this and future generations. Your engagement in Tau Kappa Epsilon will help to define our future. According to current data from NSF, UMBC ranks #151 in federal research and development expenditures out of more than 3,000 four-year colleges or universities. Id like to share a story of a chance encounter I had while travelling home from a Grand Council meeting this past fall semester. In the early 1960s, the case for a new campus in Maryland was growing.
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