Dear 校友, Faculty, Staff, Students, and Friends:

未来就在这里! 

We are heralding its arrival over the spring and summer with a series of events celebrating our great university and a number of achievements that will transform Kettering and transform learning across our campus.

纵观我们的历史, we have remained true to our unique and special educational heritage and vision — one built on not just learning but also mastery built on a model that places equal emphasis on the acquisition and the application of knowledge. During our Centennial year, we called this “the Future of Education Built a Century Ago.“现在, we are realizing our vision for the future of our university, leveraging two transformative achievements covered extensively in this issue: the successful completion of the 大胆推进资本运动 and the opening of the extraordinary 学习共享.

• 的 大胆推进资本运动 超过了1.5亿美元的目标, becoming by far the most successful fundraising effort in our history. Using gifts made during the campaign, we have already funded new scholarships, 项目, 资本的改进, 设施, and addressed a variety of critical needs. 的 success of the campaign and the opportunities it creates for our students and our university stand in tribute to the generosity and support of our 校友 and other donors, to whom Kettering is deeply grateful.
• 的 学习共享 represents a new model for a university building, and it is already garnering national attention. 实际上是105,000平方英尺, 流体, collaborative and social space with no offices or classrooms, this amazing structure is the physical embodiment of our unique academic model and vision repurposed for the future. 当它打开时, the 学习共享 will transform the learning experience of students and the teaching experience of 教师 as well as create for everyone in the University community new opportunities for socializing and collaborating in open, 灯火通明的, 鼓舞人心的, technology-infused空间.

的 impact of these two achievements on our students, 教师, 工作人员, 校友, and the Flint community has already been far-reaching and profoundly transformative.  

In celebrating the arrival of the future, this special edition recognizes the wisdom and work of the entire Kettering community, which has brought us to this point during a transformational decade. We also celebrate the 10th anniversary of the University Avenue Corridor Coalition, which we founded and has become a collaborative of more than 80 community partners that have played a key role in revitalizing the areas surrounding our campus.

Between a celebrated past and the bright future that we celebrate, leadership opportunities emerged while meeting the challenges of the Flint Water Crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. We successfully confronted these challenges with innovative responses, several of which are now taught at other universities as case studies in flexible, 有效的, 富有同情心的危机管理.

In this special edition of our magazine, I invite you to explore the extraordinary opportunities made possible by the 勇敢地向前 campaign and the 学习共享 and to read about the other exciting developments underway on campus today.

欢迎来到2022年的凯特林, 未来在哪里, and where we are transforming the University and transforming learning.

最热烈的问候,

Dr. 罗伯特K. 麦克马汉

President and Professor of Physics