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A Brief Season of Respite and Thankfulness

November 25, 2025

For decades, Thanksgiving has offered us a day to celebrate and to reflect on our many blessings.  However, this year, this familiar holiday may just serve as a much-needed respite from the unusual level of divisiveness and political rancor that has permeated our everyday existence for months. All of higher education has donned battle gear to wrestle not only with…

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A thoughtful and thankful Thanksgiving

November 22, 2021

I write to wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving.  The pandemic remains a factor in our lives, but far less than last year when many of our Thanksgiving dinners were enjoyed with family members via zoom, rather than in person. Now that we are more in hybrid mode and slowly feeling our way back into sociability, I encourage each of…

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