Dr. Steve Scott Clip

It's extraordinary and later today I'm going to meet with the foundation, a group of foundation members and probably a two or three hundred people in the room over at the student center and I'm going to talk specifically about the BICNL center. I think it's one of the best fundraising efforts we've ever put into place. It's one of the most transformational efforts we've ever we've ever been involved in and you know there's over 600 donors that made that building possible. People talk about gene BICNL or the Walton Family Foundation and certainly there are others that made very large donations but there's donations from five dollars to ten million dollars that made that possible and so what I'm going to share with the group at noon is just the excitement I have and and what I have felt is I've sat there and watched all these different Broadway shows built Clinton on that stage Laura Bush on that stage kind of least a rise recently was on that stage Mitt Romney, Soledad O'Brien I mean the list just goes on and on and you know our mission at Pittsburgh State is to provide transformational experiences for our students in our community and if you want a great example of that and if you want a great example of how private support

makes that happen it's the BICNL center so I said early on as we raised money for it that it wasn't about a building it was about what would transpire within that building and I think you've seen that vision realized and I think at high point recently not enough you were able to be there but when Secretary Rice was on that stage she was phenomenal in the crowd it was a sellout of course just energy in the room and excitement and every single head as I was on the stage with her looked out at these these heads they're all at her they were all looking at her and it was just so focused and it was an experience that could never have happened that would never have happened six years ago but now it can because we have that beautiful venue so it's a huge deal so I'm very excited that December 7th is a day certainly that will live in infamy as we all know but for Pittsburgh State University it's a milestone day of opening the BICNL center and really providing transformational experiences for our community and not just for five years but for decades to come.