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
Remarks and Writings
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
December 29, 2020
Re: Social Media Posts
To: All campus
Dec. 29, 2020
Dear UC Merced community,
A Twitter account associated with a faculty member included messages that crossed the line established by the Board of Regents in their 2016 Statement of Principles Against Intolerance condemning anti-Semitism and “anti-Semitic forms of anti-... Read More
December 16, 2020
Re: Search for Vice Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer
To: All campus
Dec. 16, 2020
Dear Campus Community,
As I shared in early fall , the university has begun a search for a new vice chancellor and chief financial officer, with the help of search firm Isaacson Miller.
A search advisory committee... Read More
