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In Review

LISTENING & LEARNING‘I Want to Get to Know the University Community’
firstdayCAMPUS SEEN: Mangelsdorf (center) took a tour of the River Campus with Jessica Robbins ’20 (right), a Meridian tour guide, and Bruce Bashwiner, senior associate vice president for facilities, as she introduced herself to the University on her first day as University president. (Photo: J. Adam Fenster)
firstdayTOP HAT: As part of a visit to the University’s power plant, Mangelsdorf was presented with her own hard hat by central utilities staff. (Photo: J. Adam Fenster)
firstdayTUNNEL TOUR: Mangelsdorf’s introduction to the River Campus featured a tour of the tunnel system that runs underneath the Eastman Quadrangle, including the painted tunnel that student organizations traditionally use to call attention to their activities. (Photo: J. Adam Fenster)
firstdaySUSTAINING CONVERSATION: Mangelsdorf talks with student sustainability fellows Ruth Agwaze ’22 (left to right), Reanna Salvador ’21, Christina Krewson ’21, and Ekene Nnadika ’21 during a stop near the Paul J. Burgett Intercultural Center in Douglass Commons. (Photo: J. Adam Fenster)
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Follow the President on Instagram

President Mangelsdorf has set up an Instagram account as a way for members of the University community to get to know her better and to join her on social media as she explores the University and the Rochester area.

Follow her: @urochestermangelsdorf.

President Sarah C. Mangelsdorf introduces herself to the University community.

Rochester’s new president, Sarah C. Mangelsdorf, promised she would spend considerable time on a “listening and learning tour” during the first part of her time as the University’s chief executive.

She jumped right in on her first day on campus, setting a tone of engagement and visibility that she plans to make a central part of her Rochester leadership.

“I want to see the campus, I want to meet people, I want to see people where they work,” Mangelsdorf said during her first public appearance as she took office July 1. Meeting briefly with members of the media before taking a student-led tour of parts of the River Campus, she said, “I don’t want to be closeted away. I want to get to know the University community.”

Led by Meridian tour guide Jessica Robbins ’20, a psychology and political science major from the Rochester suburb of Brighton, and Bruce Bashwiner, senior associate vice president for facilities, Mangelsdorf made it a point to reach out to people away from Wallis Hall, an approach that she plans to repeat on other parts of campus. She also has scheduled a series of alumni and University community receptions around the country this year.

Most recently the provost at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Mangelsdorf reiterated that she plans to spend time learning from members of the University community and then work collaboratively to map out plans for the future.

“As someone who has been in higher education a long time, I know the reputation of this place,” she said. “And I think I know some of its strengths and some of its challenges, but I’d like to hear from people for whom this is their home and their alma mater. What are the things that they think are most important? And that will help us figure out the things that we need to work on first.”

She also highlighted the notable role that the Rochester region has played in the nation’s political, artistic, and social history, particularly in the realms of suffrage and abolition, as well as in technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

“Rochester is a famous place in American history,” she said.

—Scott Hauser