Renew Renss ela Platform ‘The mission of Renew Rensselaer isto improve the governance, leadership, financial condition, and overall transparency of RPI while aligning its core constituencies—alumni, trustees, administration, faculty, staf, and students—toward the singular purpose of reestablishing its excellence in technological education, Fundamental to the achievement ofthis mission is the adoption of polices to stimulate increased alumni financial support and grow alumni! invowernent with the Institute, Therefore, we seek adoption and implementation by the RPI Board of Trustees {the Boare) ofthe following platform staternents: 1. Embrace and implement policies for governance, financial transparency, and campus climate, as espoused by the Association af Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB), 2. Encourage and facilitate regularly scheduled, open, unfltered dialogue by the Board with faculty, staff, students, and alumni 3, Enable periodic nominations for, and elections of, a least two Board members by means of an open pracess conducted by the Rensselaer Alumni Asseciation (RAN) 4, Provide ample space within Rensselaer Magazine for content solely developed by the RAA and its president; for example, an editorial column, 5. Affirm the tradition and unique independence of the Rensselaer Union, as managed and run by students, within broad guidelines that can only be overturned by a majority of the Board. 6, Focus on debt reduction to boost RPY' credit ratings. 7. Grow RPIs endowment to $2 billion by its 200th anniversary. 8, Renew RPI’ traditional focus on undergraduate academic programs and emphasize Improvements to its physical facilites, such as the lecture halls, classrooms, and laboratories, 9, Develop and implement periodic, unique marketing and promott al campaigns to reposition RPI as a world-class technological institution based on its own trademarked brand of "Why Not Change the Work?" 10. Initiate search, atthe appropriate time, for a new president whose term would commence upon the completion of the current presidents existing contract term, Ifthe Board approves this platform, the alumni members of Renew Rensselaer will crnmit to offering significant time and financial resources to assist the president and staff of the Institute with its implementation Alumni Pledging Support Patrick Tirino 94 Frank Timbone 92, "95 Melissa Schenck 13 John R. Weiss 74 Jason Slingerland 15 Hank Sobel 62 SIGN THE PLA Name* Class Yearis* Keep my support private OOO®Ben Baer'21 Jennifer Piatek 92 CChestopher Rittendale 13, Rich Bodane 69,70, Abigal Charest '98 Brent Solna “12 Richard Snetron 76, "86 ‘willarn R. Miler °68 Joni Halabi ‘00,036 Robert F. Babb 175, Lawrence Amrose 8 Frederick Alm '98 Jeffrey Morton "14,"146 Judy Austin-Rancourt 936 Jeffrey 8. Curts'77 Jack Burton’81 Jan Pirong ‘68, 706 Jonathan ? Diehl 08 Kevin Walker ‘82 Eleanor Finegan Ryan 83 Bruce M, Smackey 62,'696 Mackenzle Brown ‘10, Nicole Ross" Brian Meryuk'95, 986 Erica R. Braunschweig 17 ‘August Rulewich ‘17 Jestina Mascaro 03 Michael Marinaccio'"72, 74 ‘Theodore J. Weidner 7,79, "80, 9 Mairin Duffy 03, 046 Mark €, Goldman 68 Dylan Lingenau 17 Hagan Blount 97-01 Jon Kessler 73,826 James Kilbride 99, 03,'06,"11 Rebecca Raha Radparvar 15 sa Shiskin'86 Robert Downey 85-90 Robert HW. Jones, I'73 Alex M.Zislin "72,756, 766 ‘Ashley Harp 02 Catherine € Sullivan 82 Charles 8. Powers'67, "686 Jonathan K, Witter '82, "836 Julie Calzone 74 Jim Holmes 87 Arthur N, Landau 68, 706 Relly Haritton 12 Kevin Hamburger'75 Wade Aobott'95 Peter Vanderzee'70 Adkionaly 8 alumni have pledged their support but chose to not display ther Sharon Lichten Stenger 87 Lori Lai Cox'94 Brian Soeder 98 Christopher Farrar ‘00 Gene Dors'8S Sheila Fields 72 Andrew Shen '02, "03, Christopher Jamison 87 ‘Andrew Brush 83 Sean Lewis 2015-2016 Tyler Moylan "13 Bernard M, Chester 1968-1972 Dennis 19701974 Richard Harts 70 Eliot Graharn's7, "74 willarn 0. Grefe'76, "05 Barry Fox'80 Deborah Kaminski 73 Wyatt Nordstrom 98 Rob Colonna 00 edward K, Weleh 177 Brian Borchers 85, 926 Mark Murdoch '84 Nae Nozawa"2, "136 Matthew Schroyer 10 Matthew DeMio 19 Kevin Ung't3 Flzabeth billiard "15 Bryan MeMahon "3, 136 Brandy Beyer McKinnon ‘08 Air Munic'14,°%6 Sami Hansen “16 ‘illar serang’77 Jetirey Freed'83 David 8. Roggenkamp 8S Allan Libby'03 Ben Wright "6 Stephen F. Flood ‘81 Emily Pips "17 Douglas tyon'83 yan Hawthorne 08 Christopher S. Neward "3 Randell Jesup 84 W. Guerrier 70 Waker Piskorski'70, Edward Ahiser-Girard 80 Kenneth Levites 74 Gordy Benoit 70,79 Kenley Cheung 13 (Chuck Phelan 67, 766 Julia Leusner ‘08 Ted Mirczak'66 Bill irvine 72 James Felicito 03 Eric Pearl 89 Bruce Feingold 87 Anton Gereau'09 John MeNell’O1 Dylan Rees 19 Arthur Gatenby 1951-1955 Jacqueline Luciana "78 Kevin Law Joshya Ruberstein'07 Henry Voegeli 076 Benjamin Hunt 10,116 Chuck Rancourt'70, 74 Richard bill 74 ave Towle 79 Jessica Thomas ‘96,026 John Crawford '09 Rich Bolbrock '68,'706 Julie Hawkins 11 Kaithn Voccola Muller 05,086, "16 Bob Saidi 77 Randall Duke 77 ‘Trevor Molineaux'1S william ¢. Jennings 66 Lauryn M. Curtis 16 Brigid Angelini 15 Douglas K Nicolaisen 84 kathryn Worden 04 Tom Tough ‘68,726 Taylor 15 Willams Charles Roth 7 Jeson Wright'99, ‘00 Melanie Tinbets "10 ‘Thomas P. Hendrican "76 Michael Silverstein "72,°736 Colleen Dargie'82 Paul Buckley "77, 796 Sue Hutchinson 81,826 Bruce 0. Miller'77, 786 Bill McCormick 10, 106 Willams Herd 77 Vivek Marthi"'6 Ira Goldman 68, "696 Andrew Nash "79 Wiliam Hope'71 John D. Wilbur'71 ob Turner 70, Elizabeth Anderson 14, 146 Jim Napolitano "77 John Krob 78 Bil Cris 68, 696 ese