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Remarks and Writings

March 24, 2021
  Re: Honoring Cesar Chavez To: All campus March 24, 2021   Dear Campus Colleagues,   Fifty-five years ago this week, a major movement in US civil rights history spent the night in Merced on its march from Delano to Sacramento to fight for the basic dignity of California farm workers.   Cesar... Read More
March 19, 2021
Re: We Stand With Our AAPI Community and Against Hate To: All campus March 19, 2021   Dear Campus Community,   We have witnessed a recent, disturbing rise in unprovoked violence and harassment toward Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) across the nation — including the homicides in Georgia this week of... Read More
March 18, 2021
RE: A Different Sort of Pandemic To: All campus March 18, 2021   Dear Campus Community:   It has been a year since California issued the emergency shelter-in-place order that officially confirmed that COVID-19 was upending our world. Even as decreasing infection rates and increasing vaccination rates give us hope, it is... Read More
March 10, 2021
Re: UC Merced's First Rhodes Scholar To: All faculty and staff March 10, 2021   Dear Campus Community,   It gives me great pleasure to announce to our community the naming of UC Merced’s first Rhodes Scholar — Selina Brinkmann, a mechanical engineering master's student who will go on to study... Read More
March 2, 2021
Re: Spring 2021 Commencement To: All students, staff and faculty March 2, 2021   Dear Campus Community,   While our COVID Response Center has been working hard to stem the spread of COVID-19 on our campus and readying us for a return to in-person operations as soon as possible through regular asymptomatic testing and... Read More
February 11, 2021
Re: Seeing the Light To: All faculty and staff Feb. 11, 2021   Dear Campus Colleagues,   When UC Merced, like most higher education institutions, made the decision to move to remote learning back in April 2020, not many could have predicted how long it would take to see the light at the end of the tunnel. This pandemic... Read More
February 8, 2021
Re: Chief Campus Counsel Search To: All faculty and staff Feb. 8, 2021   Members of the Campus Community,   Chief Campus Counsel and Associate General Counsel Elisabeth R. Günther is retiring and will be leaving her role at UC Merced on April 30, 2021.   Elisabeth joined the UC Office of General Counsel in... Read More
January 28, 2021
Re: Black History Month To: All Campus January 28, 2021   As we prepare to celebrate Black History Month, I am reflecting on the commitment we share to realizing justice for the Black community by continuing to encourage inclusive excellence at UC Merced.   While we have miles to go in our journey toward a truly... Read More
January 19, 2021
Re: A New Year of Hope To: All campus Jan. 19, 2021   Dear Campus Colleagues,   Welcome to 2021, to the start of the spring semester, and to a new season of hope.   We have lived through and adapted to troubling times in 2020 — personal, national and global — and learned yet again how important it... Read More
January 7, 2021
Re: A Time for Unity To: All Campus January 7, 2021   To the UC Merced Community,   Yesterday’s tumult in Washington, D.C. has shaken many, but it also provides a valuable lesson for those of us at UC Merced working for a better future.   Now more than ever, we see the significance of higher education... Read More

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