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�Business Executive of the Year� Acceptance Speech Chancellor, UMKC Rotary International Kansas City Downtown Chapter Introduction nominating me for this honor. Thank you, Rotary Club members for the award. I am honored and humbled and, quite frankly, I shared the fact that I was re ceiving this award with my fr employees, your Graduations are about celebrating accomplishm ents and they are about looking toward the future. That is my frame for the next few minutes as it relates to UMKC : accomplishment and the Who is UMKC now, what have we done and why do you care? Where are we headed and wh How does UMKC do business and why do you care about that? As I address these points: the present state, the future goal, the how (the nature of this hope that I will offer you some thoughts and First � The Present State City. I say that from the experience of I am proud of what we have done and you have As Chancellor, I am the CEO of one of Kansas City�s largest employers. We employ more than 3,000 people with a of $270 million per year. We have a $1 billion plus economic impact on our region every year. produce physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, teachers, engineers, computer scientists, life scientists, pianists, costum 7 of 10 UMKC graduates stay in the KC metropolitan area after graduation. As CEO, I experience many of the same cha llenges any business leader faces. We must 2 where our Medical, Dental, Pharmacy, a Children�s Mercy Hospital and Truman Medical Center. UMKC must be a for students. A vibrant residential campus life for students makes us a destination of choice. A residential campus is a vital step. A residential campus life is the acc creative economy for Kansas yes, there is pain when you make the choices we are making because the summit we seek On a difficult journey, one faces the more exis tential question relati ng to the values of Do me the favor of calling a nd telling me what you think I need to know or what I am missing. In summary, my message to you today is this: h in those domains central to this City�s goals.