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Plans for the future reshape the College's foundation and shape its future. The vision outlined in our 2009 Campus Master Plan suggests a two- phased process that will first create two new classrooms, an atrium, presentation space, gender-appropriate student lockers, bathrooms, and other facilities, followed by a comprehensive restructuring of Schurman Hall, including student surgery, tutorial spaces, and the currently unoccupied necrospy and old DL areas. The renovations will improve security and separation between teaching and patient areas and accommodate a modest increase in the number of students enrolled in the first three years. It will also enable redesign of some of our currently overcrowded lecture halls to more interactive teaching spaces for elective courses and create an appropriate demonstration venue for the many educational and scientific meetings held at the College (including the NYSVMS/ Cornell Annual Conference, the College Open House, and many other outreach events). This Spring we will embark on a design process that will What has been termed the "Class Expansion Project," because it will size the pre-clinical classes to the capacity of our hospital, is a wonderful opportunity to preserve and integrate the old and the new. I encourage alumni and friends to visit Sage Hall, Duffield Hall, Milstein Hall, and the Physical Sciences building as examples of the creative adaptive re-use that we envision. As we embark on this critical planning process I will keep you informed of the plans that emerge. Skorton, Provost Kent Fuchs, and other members of the University's leadership team for their support, which was critical in our recent successful efforts to have the first phase of this plan prioritized at the University level. The entire project will take between five and six years, but after slightly more than half a century, the grand but aging Schurman Hall will be transformed, and we will again have a teaching facility that enables our faculty and students to meet the challenges of the future. I am extraordinarily grateful to Cornell's President, David Cordially, Michael I. Kotlikoff, VMD, PhD Austin O. Hooey Dean of Veterinary Medicine