Kim Bartlett, Associate Director of Admissions, Admissions and Registrar's Office

I would invest the $20 million in an area with the potential to enrich the University tremendously, both financially and academically  promoting the international flow of McGill students. Accordingly:

• $15 million to endow 50 full recruitment scholarships for international undergraduate and graduate students;
• $4 million to endow a study-abroad subsidy to help defray travel and living costs of Canadian students who decide to spend a year of their McGill program studying at a foreign university;
• $1 million to Student Services to complement their existing services for international students and McGill students studying abroad  including help with immigration paper work and specialized orientations.

As long as our student body and graduates are world class, our institution has a better chance of remaining so.

Judy Pharo, Advisor in the Office of Student Affairs and Records, Faculty of Engineering

International visibility, I believe, will be a key factor to our success and survival as a university. I would use the $20 million to increase McGill's visibility through:

• expanding our international recruiting efforts;
• developing a more international flavour to our existing programs;
• increasing and improving student support systems to accommodate our diverse student population.

To remain competitive we must focus our efforts internationally to ensure our continued growth and to increase the world-wide appeal of a McGill degree.

Dr. Laurie Gottlieb, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Director of the School of Nursing

My first priority would be to invest in human resources. I would create the conditions to attract and retain the very best professors and students by offering top salaries, particularly to junior faculty, and generous scholarships to outstanding students. I would also provide them the resources to do their work. I would support cutting edge work that has difficulty attracting funding and support international links. Finally, I would designate money to create clean, safe, and aesthetically attractive environments. We have not paid enough attention to the physical environment and its effect on physical and mental well being and productivity. Concurrently, I would investigate how to make the $20 million windfall into a renewable resource.

M.A. Whitehead, Professor of Chemistry

The $20 million should be shared equally among all researchers unable to get funds from a government-poisoned, industrially-polluted, pressure group-impaired, bureaucratically-convoluted, objective-oriented granting system. This would return the University to its vocation: to educate critically, to research into the unknown and to challenge and reform society.