ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This Comprehensive Campus Plan for The University of Arizona represents the efforts of hundreds of individuals who analyzed the problems and opportunities, who wrote of and planned for the future, who read and criticized the proposals, and those who recognized the need for the University to define its own future, and supported this effort.
Credit is due to many on the staff of Facilities Design and Construction who contributed logistically and intellectually to this undertaking. Principal among these is Cheri Gosset, the author of the draft plan on which public comment began December 10, 1986 and to David Duffy, initially Ms. Gosset's assistant and now Campus Planner, having guided the Plan through myriad public presentations, hearings and informal discussions. Much appreciated is the production effort of: Daniel M. Baron, Diane Blair, Robert Burgheimer, Bryan Copp, Olemuel Cox, George Feathers and Lisa Rodrigues.
Also, the thanks of the University is due to the hundreds of individuals within the University and in the surrounding neighborhoods who critiqued the draft and demanded justified corrections, modifications, and additions that in sum have improved the plan immeasurably. Of particular importance was the assistance of Bruce Wright, Director of Community and Public Service, who saw in the controversies sparked by the plan, the opportunity for constructive communication which would strengthen the neighborhoods as well as the University.
In closing, thanks are also due to two individuals without whom this effort would not have been possible. Billy Joe Varney provided wise counsel and George Cunningham provided the necessary support and encouragement.
The act of planning does not produce a static product, properly conceived, it produces sequential products, each of which is a more definitive response to a future still uncertainly seen. Therefore, the task of this document is not to predict the future, as much as it is to document principles of action and directions of development. Thus, to these individuals and many others who participated, the Comprehensive Campus Plan of the University of Arizona is dedicated.