Dear Campus Community,  The past two years have taught us that the world is connected, and we must work together to make meaningful progress and keep our communities safe. In the face of a global pandemic, our campus united as #OneBeach to navigate uncertainty and demonstrate true resilience. What I have witnessed during the pandemic gives me faith that we can meet our next grand challenge, mitigating the climate crisis, with similar rigor and collective action.   Earth Month at The Beach…

Dear Beach Community: As I watch conflicts around the globe, I often hesitate to make public comments, not sure that I have anything to add to readily available news coverage. Today, however, I’ve been wondering what lessons we, as a university community, can derive from the apparent willingness of humans to wage organized murder toward each other. While the current horrific aggression happening in Ukraine has our full attention right now, my lifetime has been filled with international…

Dear Beach Community, I am looking forward to our Monday, February 7 resumption of face-to-face instruction for our in-person classes. (For students unsure about how course instruction will be offered in a particular class beginning next week, they should consult BeachBoard, the online schedule of classes, or with their instructor.) I have so appreciated your flexibility over the past couple of weeks during our primarily virtual environment – a step we took to help keep our community safe…

"We have come a long, long way, but we have a long way to go." - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. On Monday, January 17, we will again celebrate Dr. King’s birthday and his legacy of working for social justice. To be sure, his vision for a more perfect union has come a long way since he made that remark at an NAACP event in 1957, but much remains to be done. As we strive to create new ways forward – to grow and move past systemic racism and institutionalized violence – we must work toward…