MMA President's Watch
reputation has been earned because of our
place. Maine Maritime Academy professors
ability to adapt to changing circumstances
already address wind power, thermal
and to evolve as necessary by offering
recovery methods, environmental ethics,
programs that are relevant, while still
and a multitude of other environmentally
remaining true to our original purpose
and financially sound ideas but now
and mission of developing the leadership
academy faculty, staff, administration,
qualities that our students need to be
and students are working collaboratively
successful in their careers
to develop environmental initiatives for
It is for that reason that I am so pleased
the entire college that will add value and
with the theme of the faculty workshop
quality to the education we provide.
we held just prior to the commencement
If our job as an institution is to prepare
of classes. As I have stated on several
our students to be successful in their
occasions, my vision for Maine Maritime
careers, then Maine Maritime Academy
Academy includes the need to develop
must prepare our students to take the many
As we begin a new academic year at
a cross-curricula interdepartmental
new jobs that will become available as
Maine Maritime Academy, our seventy-
approach to preparing our students for the
businesses position themselves to address
first year of preparing young people to be
real and relevant environmental challenges
environmental questions. I believe that
successful in their careers, I'd like to share
they will confront in their careers.
entails not only being an informed member
with you why the Academy has been so
Having spent a career in environmental
of civil society, but for our students, that
successful all these years ­ it is because of
management, I am convinced that
also means being equipped with the tools
its ability to adapt. The record number of
environmental concerns are genuine and
necessary to address emerging challenges
applications and the resulting incoming
pertinent to every business enterprise,
in an ever more complex world. This
class size and total population, graduate
be it engineering, management, science,
will require a concerted effort starting
and undergraduate, is certainly a testament
transportation or any other field our
with a determination of where we want
to the reputation of Maine Maritime
graduates may pursue. This is not a
to go, the pathway necessary to travel
Academy as a college that provides a high
question of philosophy or political point
and the determination that we will work
quality and valuable education. Part of that
of view ­ this is about addressing an
consistently to get there.
emerging reality of the global market
MMA President, Dr. William J. Brennan
MMA Thanks The Board For Its Service
5 MARINER / FALL 2012