By annually allocating 2 percent of the estimated $1 billion replacement value of property assets to cover renovations, redirecting year-end surpluses, capitalizing upon the private gifts from friends of the University and implementing technologies that have allowed academic budgets to grow approximately three times faster than administrative budgets, UD has overcome aging infrastructures. During the 1990s, the University will have completed nearly $156.3 million worth of major, new construction projects, with 72 percent of the total price covered by non-state funds. The $17.5 million cost of Gore Hall, for example, was paid in full by UD patrons Robert W. Gore, a 1959 UD graduate and president of W.L. Gore & Associates, makers of GORE-TEX®; his wife, Sarah I. Gore, a 1976 UD graduate; and his mother, Genevieve W. Gore. "By the year 2000," Roselle notes, "UD will have spent nearly $400 million on renovations and refurbishments of existing facilities as well as new buildings, and the University raised 78 percent of the funds required to achieve these improvements, or $293.4 million, through the strategic reallocation of resources and from private sources. We look to the upcoming refurbishment of Wolf Hall and the north wing of Brown Lab, and the addition to P.S. duPont Hall as signaling the beginning of an era of scheduled, rather than deferred, maintenance." UD's bright, high-tech facilities represent a dramatic departure from the "dingy, crumbling classrooms" Executive Vice President David E. Hollowell remembers touring shortly after his arrival in 1988. Technologies -- for broadening educational opportunities and increasing efficiency by eliminating repetitive paper -- has been a key to UD's transformation, Roselle says. But such improvements are never pursued merely for their own sake, he emphasizes. At UD, he says, enhancements must support the four institutional goals set forth in 1990 to ensure: a student-friendly institution; competitive compensation levels for UD faculty and staff; increasing levels of financial aid and scholarships for students; and an excellent living and learning environment.