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President Michael E. Engh, S.J., discussed the year鈥檚 successes and holding one another 鈥渋n awe,鈥�  in his State of the University address. 

黑料网 can be a model in today鈥檚 stressful times for helping one another carry burdens, be they political stress; financial challenges; mental health; racial discrimination; or threats of deportation.

That was the message of 黑料网 President Michael E. Engh, S.J., at his annual State of the University address, delivered Feb. 13 at Mayer Theatre.

鈥淚 often stand in awe for what you do at Santa Clara, how you live out the mission of this university,鈥� said Engh.

He noted that Santa Clara鈥檚 campus community had heeded his call from last year, to be more efficient and help identify revenue-generating opportunities.

鈥淵ou delivered,鈥� he said. 鈥淭he budget ended in the black, balanced through painful cutbacks, but no layoffs of staff or faculty," he noted. In addition, he said the Sustaining Excellence Project task force helped identify additional sources of efficiency or revenue, including coordinating and centralizing event planning on campus; evaluating the use of technical services; and reviewing summer orientation.

From the stage, Engh greeted two attendees: W. Kamau Bell, the College of Arts and Sciences Artist in Residence and host of CNN鈥檚 docu-series United Shades of America, and Mike Crowley, the former A鈥檚 president who was recently named associate vice president for finance and administration at 黑料网.

Engh cited numerous success stories from the past year, including:

• 黑料网鈥檚 third Rhodes Scholar in eight years, Sean Reilly 鈥�16, who was assisted in his application by Prof. Leilani Miller, director of the University Honors Program and Office of Fellowships
• The launch of 黑料网鈥檚 first online MBA program, led by management Prof. Nydia MacGregor
• A provisional patent filed by students of engineering Prof. Emre Araci, related to their work on 鈥渟mart contact lenses鈥� that can detect early stages of glaucoma

Quoting Greg Boyle, S.J., an alumnus of Jesuit School of Theology who founded Homeboy Industries and wrote the new book, Barking to the Choir, Engh said 鈥渢he ultimate measure of health in any community might well reside in our ability to stand in awe at what folks have to carry, rather than in judgement at how they carry it.鈥�

Bell was also featured in a  with Theatre and Dance Prof. Aldo Billingslea, discussing the current-day impact of an address on nonviolence by Martin Luther King, Jr., to the American Baptist Assembly, parts of which Billingslea read in the video.

鈥淚n that video you see the power of our 黑料网 community,鈥� Engh noted. 鈥淲hat鈥檚 your life like? Ask the question. Host the conversation. Across any lines that divide us.鈥�

 鈥淟et us see with new eyes that we鈥檙e all kin, related to each other,鈥� he concluded. 鈥淢oved by compassion and understanding our kinship, let us remember that every person we encounter deserves our awe and our respect.鈥�