Dean's Letter

A college reorganization, especially one as significant as ours, entails many changes. At a minimum, we must ensure that the college’s central office, which provides college-wide policies, procedures and administrative support, works seamlessly with the divisions, which now have expanded decision-making and budgetary authority.

It’s no great pleasure to discuss long-term stress and trauma, and that’s surely a big reason why people tend to avoid such topics. Sometimes, however, hard conversations are necessary. One important takeaway from the messages I have received recently from faculty, staff and students is that frustrations are still festering,...

Don’t think so? Think again.

We know many of you are struggling, and we write to offer our sympathy, empathy and support.

Think again.

My fellow Buffs, we will get through this together. You must be exhausted. I am, and I would like to pause to reflect on how these are times that try our patience, our good humor, and to quote Thomas Paine, our souls. James W.C. White The pandemic constrains daily life...

You have the distinction of going to college in extraordinary times. You don’t need me to tell you this, of course. Headline writers describe the new school year with adjectives like “grim” and “frightening.”

As you may know, John Eastman, the 2020-21 Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy at the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization, has published an essay in Newsweek arguing that Kamala Harris might not be eligible to be vice president of the United States.

Let us use this time of pandemics and protest to refocus on that vitally important part of our mission, to try harder to fully realize what our nation hails as self-evident truths I often point out the benefits of a college education, especially a liberal-arts education. A recent Associated Press...

We launch this campaign to help our college family be well and stay well “How are you?” Normally, that rote inquiry precedes a ready response: “I’m well.” Today, however, we grapple with the global pandemic, record unemployment, political polarization and historic levels of protest of our citizens’ long history of...