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Remarks and Writings

#ShutDownAcademia Day of Reflection

June 9, 2020
Re: #ShutDownAcademia Day of Reflection To: All students, faculty and staff June 9, 2020   Dear Campus Community,   UC Merced is an academic institution, but it is foremost a community, and our primary duty is to one another.   Many faculty, staff and others have heard the call not to conduct business as... Read More

We Must Do Better

June 5, 2020
Re: We Must Do Better To: All students, faculty and staff June 5, 2020   Dear Campus Community,   “Hate evil and love good and establish justice” is a simple yet powerful call from one of the most powerful works of literature. It should be a set of universal values, but so often we fall far short of these... Read More

In Solidarity

June 1, 2020
Re: In Solidarity To: All students, faculty and staff June 1, 2020   Dear Campus Community,   We feel both outrage and grief over the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota, Breonna Taylor in Kentucky, and Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia. These are unconscionable acts of violence. Their deaths, and subsequent nationwide protests... Read More

A Message from Chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz

May 20, 2020
Re: A Message from Chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz To: Campus and community May 20, 2020   Dear Campus Community and Friends,   I am writing to express my excitement and gratitude at being named the fourth chancellor of the University of California, Merced. I have been privileged to serve since 2017 as president... Read More

Interim UC Merced Chancellor Nathan Brostrom Annual Address

October 30, 2019
  I am proud and honored to report: the state of UC Merced is excellent. Ladies and gentlemen, members of the board of trustees and members of our community, friends of the University of California Merced, students, faculty and staff — I would like to begin on a personal note as I mark three months as your interim Chancellor... Read More

P3 Higher Education Summit

October 24, 2019
The Merced 2020 Project represents UC Merced’s next chapter and it will provide access for students from every walk of life. ------- It’s a pleasure to be with you today. I have only been in my position as Chancellor of the University of California Merced, the UC’s youngest campus for three months. However, I am... Read More

UC Merced Demonstrating Everything that is Right about Higher Education

September 27, 2019
  At a time when national higher education is beset by admissions scandals, political winds and declining public confidence, there is a young but mighty institution in California’s Central Valley that is demonstrating everything that is right about higher education.   Read Interim Chancellor Brostrom's Merced Star-Op... Read More

UC Merced is #1

September 9, 2019
Dear Campus Community, At UC Merced, we create new knowledge while educating outstanding young women and men, most of whom are the first in their families to go to college. Our faculty and staff make UC Merced feel like home to nearly 9,000 students, and those students throw themselves into their work and, with our help, improve their future... Read More

Standing With Our Muslim Community

March 15, 2019
Dear Campus Community, Like you, I was saddened and deeply troubled to learn about yesterday’s horrific attack on the Muslim community in New Zealand. With heavy hearts, we stand today in solidarity with and support for the Muslim members of our campus community, the Merced community and the world. Working every day in an institution... Read More

Happy Holidays

December 18, 2018
Dear friends and colleagues, As I reflect on another year at UC Merced, I am continually heartened by the sense of community that makes this such a wonderful place to work, live and learn. I am also amazed at all we have accomplished. Our campus continues to grow, our faculty continue to break new ground and blaze new trails in critically... Read More

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