Georgian Court University

"Over the past thirty years, individual women, their families, this university, and our society as a whole have been changed immeasurably as a result of a feminist social movement.  You - both women and men - have inherited its accomplishments and also its unfinished agenda. 

One item on that unfinished agenda is about encouraging new leadership - leadership on the part of people who were traditionally excluded from arenas of decision making and power, who had no say in shaping the big issues and policies that had an impact on their lives. 

Now opportunities beckon for those who are attracted to leadership roles whether in the professions, the military, in business, and the private sector, or in the community in civic and organizational affairs, or in public life and government. 

Public leadership is about extending one's talents and energies to influence the larger world and to make it a better place.  Extend the circle of your caring to the larger community beyond your own household, and make the bigger world a little better because of your contribution."