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A report to the University of Pittsburgh Board of Trustees by Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg: When we last met, at the very end of June, we took a look back at the 2006-07 academic year and agreed that it had been a very big year for Pitt.
It was big in the sense that we achieved a big goal—passing the $1 billion mark in our capital campaign. It was big in the sense that we celebrated a big birthday—marking the 220th anniversary of Pitt’s founding as a log cabin academy at what was then the edge of the American frontier.
And it was big in the sense that we launched the big project to clean and preserve the Cathedral of Learning—an initiative that might be viewed both as a 220th birthday present to Pitt and an especially fitting acknowledgment of the 70th birthday of the Cathedral itself.