To understand what Fred Lazarus accomplished during his 35 years as president of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://findlocal.baltimoresun.com/mount-vernon/home/university/maryland-institute-college-of-art-baltimore-school-educational-facility&quot;&gt;Maryland Institute College of Art&lt;/a&gt;, one need only look at the gleaming concrete-and-glass structure housing the school's Brown Center for new media. The rakishly angled building rising above the school's Mount Royal Avenue campus symbolizes the future of both art and higher education in America as surely as the stately neoclassical building across the street from it reflects its past. Mr. Lazarus, who announced this week that he will step down as president in 2014, had the genius to see that future and the skill to build it in Baltimore.