I’ll be honest. Welcoming everyone back in the fall without physically welcoming all our students back to our beautiful campus is hard. In normal times, we would be meeting face-to-face, in classrooms, in CAS’ new home in Tykeson Hall, at lectures, performances, games, and exhibits, and we would be crossing paths under the glorious autumn trees of the campus arboretum. But while the beginning of this academic year will look very different, our commitment to educating our students and cultivating the next generation of leaders remains the same. In response to the Movement for Black Lives, we are making it a priority to take action–by launching a Black Studies minor, working closely with the Provost to hire more Black tenure-track faculty, and dedicating CAS Dean’s Diversity ...