George Floyd, Juneteenth, & Our Commitment to Inclusion
May 25, 2021To the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Community:
A year ago on this date, we went about Memorial Day activities with no idea that the night would end with a murder…
George Floyd, Derek Chauvin, and 9 minutes, 29 seconds
April 20, 2021To the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Community:
Earlier this evening, a Minnesota jury made the truth official: On May 25, 2020, Derek Chauvin murdered George…
With Jury Deliberations Soon to Begin in Minneapolis...
April 19, 2021To the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Community:
Nearly 11 months after the world watched George Floyd take his last breaths under Derek Chauvin’s knee, a jury…
Tragedy in Georgia and Tuesday Town Hall
March 22, 2021To the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Community:
Last week’s killings of eight people—six of them Asian American women—has intensified the already-pervasive fear…
You Are Welcome Here
March 06, 2021To the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Community:
You are welcome here.
Four years ago, our campus became one of more than 300 colleges and universities to…
Diversity, Inclusion and the Executive Order
October 16, 2020To the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Community:
We commend you for your enduring commitment to embrace inclusion and diversity as core values…
Join us for tomorrow's Day of Dialogue event
September 16, 2020To the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Community:
This Thursday, Sept. 17, we come together once again for dialogue and discussion. Our university has been…
Continue the conversation with ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½'s next Day of Dialogue
September 13, 2020To Our Alumni and Friends,
In June, the university held a Day of Dialogue to start critical conversations related to race and justice—on campus and…
Race, Justice and Inclusive Excellence
September 07, 2020To the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Community:
The death of George Floyd seemed to awaken scores of people to the systemic racism that insidiously invades every…
Day of Observance, Friday, June 19
June 18, 2020To Our Faculty, Staff and Students:
Your strong participation in last week’s…
Day of Dialogue: Wednesday, June 10
June 07, 2020To Our Alumni:
As some of you know, we originally scheduled ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½â€™s annual Day of Giving to take place Tuesday, June 9.
But in…
Words, Values and Actions
June 05, 2020To Our Faculty, Staff and Students:
Bright yellow and roughly 50 feet tall, the letters cover two city blocks just north of the White House.
…
Eric Garner, George Floyd, and Tamir Rice
May 31, 2020Message from President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson III
To Our Faculty, Staff and Students:
Six years later, the words are the same…
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