Presidential address and hosting a High School Leadership Conference

On October 14, 1999, President Yanikoski delivered a major address to students, faculty, staff, alumni and trustees in commemoration of his five-year anniversary as president of Saint Xavier University. In this address, entitled “”Countering a Culture of Impermanence: Reflections on Five Years as University President,”” President Yanikoski promised to “”carry curriculum and co-curriculum into the community in ways that give students and professors meaningful opportunities to integrate theory with practice”” and to “”find more occasions to use the campus . . . as a site for discourse with the larger community of scholars, practitioners, and neighbors regarding ethical and civic…