tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40221040917729674522024-03-05T09:37:58.075-08:00Susquehanna President's BlogViews and News from the President of Susquehanna UniversitySusquehanna Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745406804222245665noreply@blogger.comBlogger122125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4022104091772967452.post-70650237378495564492023-08-15T10:43:00.000-07:002023-08-15T10:43:05.853-07:00This Blog Has Moved<p> </p><p> </p><p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style> <br /></p>Susquehanna Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745406804222245665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4022104091772967452.post-67284674535413347182023-06-29T15:05:00.001-07:002023-06-29T15:05:36.047-07:00SCOTUS Decision<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SCOTUS
Decision</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Today’s
Supreme Court decision striking down affirmative action in college admissions
is very disappointing, but it is not surprising. As I wrote last month, in anticipation of this day, I
was a signatory from among LACRELA (Liberal Arts College Equity Leadership
Alliance) presidents in an open letter voicing our opposition to this ruling
and outlining strategies to improve access for all students to our institutions.
You can read more about those strategies </span><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/05/11/liberal-arts-colleges-keep-prioritizing-diversity"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">here</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For
decades no student has been denied or granted admission to Susquehanna based
upon their race. This is true at the majority of colleges and universities in
the U.S. We do many things to recruit a talented and diverse student population
to our campus. That diversity enhances the learning opportunities for all our
students, and it prepares them to be better leaders in the evermore diverse
communities they will call home after graduation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">At
Susquehanna University, our mission is to educate students for productive,
creative, and reflective lives of achievement, leadership, and service in a
diverse, dynamic, and interdependent world. A diverse student body is integral
to that mission. As LACRELA’s open letter states, holistic review of applicants
is critical to recruiting a well-rounded class — from racial and ethnic
diversity, to gender and geographic representation, to socioeconomic diversity.
We strive to create a culture on our campuses that mirrors the world our
graduates are entering. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We know
that the single most powerful thing a person can do to improve their economic
position is to get a college degree. In order for colleges and universities to
fulfill our promise of economic and social mobility, we must continue
rectifying the systemic barriers that have kept so many talented students of
color out of higher education. This is what we are called to do.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Although
today’s Supreme Court ruling is disheartening, Susquehanna will continue the
important work of expanding access to the transformative experience of a
college education and ensuring that students from minoritized populations feel
they belong here and thrive.</span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style> <br /></p>Susquehanna Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745406804222245665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4022104091772967452.post-9487119840585069442023-06-02T14:13:00.001-07:002023-06-02T14:13:11.742-07:00Happy Pride Month!<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbnXs4haCzhP-ySOxuTmRjUtCkcrcO-dVu-OWBuSiBQglPyN_wGRsdK11qnb2bZmsZTg4UwWcoRtG_aTNWpVGP1jzwembHLm11edFcZPYG_DQmPKt39BX8wi5t4qPAES1SXjItDX1FhJWagYLmDLJ2zrbl-m-bm2oq2ipR69XyqCdmD7GD4wGLZFbc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="630" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbnXs4haCzhP-ySOxuTmRjUtCkcrcO-dVu-OWBuSiBQglPyN_wGRsdK11qnb2bZmsZTg4UwWcoRtG_aTNWpVGP1jzwembHLm11edFcZPYG_DQmPKt39BX8wi5t4qPAES1SXjItDX1FhJWagYLmDLJ2zrbl-m-bm2oq2ipR69XyqCdmD7GD4wGLZFbc" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">June has become a dedicated time to lift up our friends, colleagues,
neighbors, and family members who are members of the LGBTQ+ community. It is an
opportunity to recognize the obstacles these individuals and groups have overcome,
and sadly, it is also an occasion to shine a light on obstacles that remain.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/lgbt-pride-month/about/">Pride Month</a>
began with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots">Stonewall
Riots</a> that followed a police raid on the <a href="https://thestonewallinnnyc.com/">Stonewall Inn</a>, a gay bar in lower
Manhattan, in late June 1969. These riots were a watershed moment of advocacy
that continued to be celebrated over the coming years. In 1999, President
Clinton officially declared June to be Pride Month.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The past few years have been especially challenging for the
LGBTQ+ community and all of us who love them, because fundamental human
freedoms are being challenged around the world and in our own nation. These
challenges are driven by pernicious ignorance and, sadly, hate.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We know better. As we reflect on what has been accomplished
to support LGBTQ+ rights over the past decades, and as we confront efforts to
reverse that progress, I encourage each of us to recommit to assuring that all
members of our community can fully express their authentic selves and openly
love whom they love without fear, without judgement, and without hesitation. We
are who we are, and love is love.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We all deserve to express our
identities freely and to celebrate the love and care of the partners of our
choice fully. For many, this sadly remains a daunting proposition, and one that
is being hatefully challenged in many corners of our nation today. It is my
hope that we will relegate those challenges to the past.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our LGBTQ+ neighbors who are out are
invaluable role models for our community by being true to themselves and to us.
Our <a href="https://www.susqu.edu/inclusive-excellence/lgbtq-community/">student
and faculty and staff affinity groups</a>, like GSA, provide opportunities to
celebrate and reflect, and they foster joy-filled opportunities for all members
of our community to be proud of who they are. I am grateful for their example,
and I am so proud of their courage and integrity. Happy Pride Month!</span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Susquehanna Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745406804222245665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4022104091772967452.post-52061037008552941502023-05-08T09:40:00.003-07:002023-05-11T16:05:01.757-07:00Lest We Forget<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Lest We Forget</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: .25in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.25in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul
diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest
they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons,
and thy son's sons.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> — Deuteronomy 4:9</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Over the past few years, we have seen state officials and
legislatures attempting to limit or dictate curricula and interfering with the
faculty hiring and tenure process. Some of these overreaches have been in
response to faculty serving as expert witnesses in court cases in which their
testimony was unfavorable to the state’s position; some are battles over
ideology; some are acts of political theatre; and some are attempts to whitewash
history.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Each example strains or violates the principles of shared
governance. In the classic higher-education governance model, faculty, who are
the trained experts determine the curriculum and the standards for faculty
appointment, promotion, and tenure. The administration and board have authority
over budgets and their allocation, and they provide a check-and-balance review in
the confirmation of tenure and promotion.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There are often dynamic tensions between the three bodies
within institutional shared governance, but on the whole, this has been an
important component of the ascendancy of American higher education. Public
higher education has an additional complication in that boards are often, in-part,
or entirely, appointed by state governors. Typically, when the shared-governance
apparatus of these institutions is respected, continuity is maintained even
when entire boards are repopulated with a change in state leadership. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/29/opinion/new-college-florida-republican-desantis.html?searchResultPosition=1">New
College</a> in Florida is an example of a wholesale change in mission and
leadership of an institution connected to a board change. Beginning today, <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/as-bizarre-as-it-sounds-at-ohio-state-trustees-will-do-the-presidents-job">Ohio
State University will not have a president</a>. Following commencement this
past weekend, President Kristina Johnson is leaving the post, and neither a
successor nor interim has been named. At present, the cabinet will report to
the board’s subcommittees seemingly eliminating or shortening one of the three
legs of the shared-governance tripod.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These machinations are concurrent with pending decisions of
the supreme court on the future of affirmative action in college admissions and
financial aid and numerous bills in state legislatures aimed at limiting or
eliminating DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) services, programming, and supporting
curricula.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In her opinion in the 2003 landmark decision in Grutter v.
Bollinger, which upheld affirmative action in college admissions, Justice
Sandra Day O’Connor <a href="https://gspp.berkeley.edu/research-and-impact/publications/was-justice-oconnor-right-race-and-highly-selective-college-admissions-in-2">wrote</a>:
“We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer
be necessary to further the interest approved today.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I firmly believe Justice O’Connor thought that the playing
field of higher-education admissions would have become more consistently
equitable in that timeframe than has been the case, but many believe the
current <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/us/politics/supreme-court-affirmative-action-harvard-unc.html">cases</a>
being brought by Students for Fair Admission against Harvard and UNC will lead
to Grutter v. Bollinger being overturned. The extent and reach of such a
decision are still unknown. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In anticipation of a change, I was a signatory from among
LACRELA (Liberal Arts College Equity Leadership Alliance) presidents in an <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/05/01/liberal-arts-colleges-keep-prioritizing-diversity?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=b5e38db462-DNU_2021_COPY_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-b5e38db462-227753393&mc_cid=b5e38db462&mc_eid=e5fbcf9b3b">open
letter</a> outlining strategies to improve access for all students to our
institutions. Shaun Harper wrote about this letter in a recent <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaunharper/2023/05/04/presidents-say-their-colleges-will-sustain-diversity-commitments-regardless-of-supreme-court-affirmative-action-ruling/?sh=4192ae47fc0a">editorial</a>
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Forbes</i>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DEI programming on campuses works. On Friday I attended
Lavender Graduation and our event for seniors in our TRiO program. Efforts to
build community and a sense of belonging help students from minoritized
populations that historically did not persist in higher education at rates
consistent with the overall student body to achieve comparable graduation
rates. These efforts don’t make it easier, but they do help students to feel
that they belong here, that they are seen, and that they are loved and
respected. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Part of being seen is being represented in the curriculum.
This includes the literature, music, and art we teach and study. It is also our
history. Our history is complex and filled with jubilation and regret. We are
an exceptional nation when we address the faults of our past and commit to
learning how we can avoid repeating the sins of our fathers. We become better
neighbors when we understand the shaping forces that have affected those around
us for good or ill, and we become better leaders when we understand the
legacies our decisions have on generations who follow them.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let us teach, speak, and write that which is true, “lest we
forget.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Each year, 80% of students who enroll in community colleges
say that their long-term goal is to complete a bachelor’s degree, but only 16%
of them do, and that <a href="https://hechingerreport.org/bachelors-degree-dreams-of-community-college-students-get-stymied-by-red-tape-and-its-getting-worse/">percentage
is dropping</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is one of the reasons Susquehanna University has been
creating articulation agreements with two-year institutions across the
Commonwealth and beyond. These agreements are designed to make the pathway to
completion of a bachelor’s degree seamless and attainable for talented students
who begin that journey at one of our two-year partners.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One of those agreements is with Harrisburg Area Community
College (<a href="https://www.hacc.edu/">HACC</a>). Their president, <a href="https://www.hacc.edu/AboutHACC/OfficeofthePresident/index.cfm">John J.
“Ski” Sygielski</a> was on our campus yesterday to discuss how we can collaborate
to help more students achieve their goal of earning a four-year degree. It was
a great visit. His passion for student success parallels that of our faculty
and staff, and we will strive build a pipeline together.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The articulation agreements we have put in place include
robust financial aid packages for students completing an A.A. or A.S. degree
with a GPA of 3.0 or higher and additional scholarships if those students are
members of Phi Theta Kappa, the national honor society for two-year colleges.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A few years ago, out of their deep commitment to these
students, our faculty voted to change our graduation requirements so students
arriving with an A.A. or A.S. degree can graduate with a bachelor’s degree from
Susquehanna in 2 years. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One of the most significant components of our agreements is
that students attending two-year institutions can submit a “Letter of Intent,”
which initiates a connect with one of our faculty members who will serve as an
adviser to help the student make the best choices of coursework within their
associate’s program to align with their intended baccalaureate degree at
Susquehanna.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Susquehanna University has held student access and success
at the core of its mission for 165 years. These partnerships will allow us to
help even more students achieve their dreams of earning a bachelor’s degree,
and more importantly receiving a transformative education.</p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">Women’s Leadership Initiative</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As Women’s History Month draws to a close there is much to
acknowledge and celebrate.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The first women’s college in the United States, <a href="https://www.wesleyancollege.edu/">Wesleyan College</a> was founded in Macon,
Georgia in 1836. The oldest of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_(colleges)">Seven Sisters</a>,
<a href="https://www.mtholyoke.edu/">Mount Holyoke</a> was founded in 1837 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lyon">Mary Lyon</a>. She started
Wheaton Female Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts in 1834. It is now <a href="https://wheatoncollege.edu/">Wheaton College</a>. In the 1960s, there
were over 280 women’s colleges. That number is now 26.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Most of the former women’s colleges moved to coeducation. It’s
important to note that in the 1960s, there were hundreds of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_colleges_in_the_United_States">men’s
colleges</a> that have also coeducated. There are now 3 secular men’s colleges.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.oberlin.edu/">Oberlin College</a> was
founded in 1833. It became the first college to admit African-American students
in 1835, and in 1837 (the same year Mount Holyoke opened), Oberlin admitted
female students, becoming the first coeducational college in the nation.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Last year, <a href="https://www.bestcolleges.com/research/college-enrollment-statistics/#fn-1">55%</a>
of undergraduate students in America were female. In the 1980s women began to
outnumber men on U.S. college campuses, and by 2014, women surpassed men in
this country in overall academic achievement, and yet women are paid less than
men across nearly all employment sectors. Although that gap has continued to
shrink, according to the Pew Center, in 2022, the differential was still 18%.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This discrepancy is
one of the principal reasons Signe S. Gates ’71 and Dawn G. Mueller ’68 (the
chair and vice-chair of our board of trustees) support the creation of the <a href="https://www.susqu.edu/academics/centers-and-programs/womens-leadership-initiative/">Women’s
Leadership Initiative</a> at Susquehanna University. This program provides
leadership training, mentorship, and networking in support of all of the women
enrolled at the University.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We will be hosting
our annual Women’s Leadership Symposium in Washington, DC later this week. At
this event, our current students will interact with alumnae in leadership roles
at </span>Healthcare Ready, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Postal
Inspection Service, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and more.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Great progress has been made toward gender equity, but we
still have a long way to go. The examples and efforts of Signe and Dawn, and
the support of the many alumni and friends of Susquehanna to promote these
efforts provide opportunities for the next generation of SU alumnae to make
gender equity in their professional lives a reality.</p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Susquehanna Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745406804222245665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4022104091772967452.post-50192141520701758992023-02-17T14:50:00.002-08:002023-02-17T14:50:49.817-08:00Higher Education Reading List<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Higher Education Reading List</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One of our wonderful trustees recently asked me to recommend
a higher-education reading list. Here it is:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Newsletters and
Magazines</u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I start each weekday with a review of these three:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/">Inside Higher
Ed</a></i> publishes a daily newsletter of current events in higher education.
These include 3 or 4 feature stories and a daily list of briefs of related
interest.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><a href="https://www.chronicle.com/">The Chronicle of
Higher Education</a></i> was for many years the most popular job-posting publication
in higher education. The weekly newspaper format has been largely replaced by a
daily e-newsletter with feature stories ranging from current news stories from
the academy to annual higher-ed almanac reports, to opinion pieces from
faculty, administrators, and pundits.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><a href="https://petersonrudgersgroup.com/the-scan/">Peterson-Rudgers
Scan</a></i> is a daily anthology of links to higher-education related stories
across the news media. It is a public service offered by the Peterson-Rudgers
Group, a higher-ed communications consultancy. Each issue includes curated links
to 2 to 4 stories on 3 to 5 timely issues including campus leaders responding
to current events, trends in philanthropy, and impacts of national stories on
our campuses. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I consult these publications frequently:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><a href="https://www.highereddive.com/deep-dive/">Higher
Ed Deep Dive</a></i> publishes in-depth examinations of current topics
affecting higher education.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><a href="https://universitybusiness.com/">University
Business</a></i> publishes a variety of content in support of finance,
administration, auxiliaries, and facilities management.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><a href="https://er.educause.edu/">Educause Review</a></i>
is the publication of Educause, which is the principal organization supporting
IT professional in higher education.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://agb.org/trusteeship-magazine/">Trusteeship</a></i> is a magazine
published by the Association of Governing Boards. It focusses on the roles and
best practices of boards of trustees and shared governance.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation">Liberal Education</a></i> is a
magazine published by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
focused on the relationship of liberal education and good citizenship and
preparing students for lives of purpose and meaning. It also lifts up best
practices in pedagogy and curricula.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Books</u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br /></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These are some texts I have found especially meaningful and
helpful in thinking about the collegiate enterprise.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>History</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kimball, Bruce A.: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Orators
and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education</i>, expanded
edition. New York: College Board, 1995.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ricks, Thomas E.: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">First
Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How
It Shaped Our Country</i>. New York: Harper Collins, 2020.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Higher Education Identity and Purpose</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Delbanco, Andrew: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">College:
What it Was, Is, and Should Be</i>. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bok, Derek: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Higher
Education in America</i>, revised edition. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2013.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Daniels, Ronald J.: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What
Universities Owe Democracy</i>. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
2021.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Liberal Arts</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Leadership and the
Liberal Arts: Achieving the Promise of a Liberal Education</i>, edited by J.
Thomas Wren, Ronald E. Riggio, and Michael A. Genovese. New York: Palgrave
MacMillan, 2009.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Roth, Michael: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Beyond
the University: Why Liberal Education Matters</i>. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2014.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Zakaria, Fareed: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In
Defense of a Liberal Education</i>. New York: W.W. Norton, 2015.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Detweiler, Richard A.: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Evidence Liberal Arts Needs: Lives of Consequence, Inquiry, and Accomplishment</i>.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Diversity. Equity, and Inclusion</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Williams, Damon A.: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Strategic
Diversity Leadership: Activating Change and Transformation in Higher Education</i>.
Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2013.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Givens, Jarvis R.: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">School
Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness</i>. Boston: Beacon
Press, 2023.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Governance</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Chait,
Richard P., William Ryan, and Barbara E. Taylor: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards</i>.
Hoboken: Board Source, 2005</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Bowen,
William G. and Eugene Tobin: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Locus of
Authority: The Evolution of Faculty Roles in the Governance of Higher Education</i>.
Princeton University Press, 2015.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Demographics and Enrollment</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">McGee, Jon: <i>Breakpoint:</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Changing Marketplace for Higher Education</i>. Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2015.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Grawe, Nathan: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Demographics
and the Demand for Higher Education</i>. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">____________: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Agile
College: How Institutions Successfully Navigate Demographic Changes</i>. Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2021.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Business Model</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Townsley, Michael K.: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Small
College Guide to Financial Health: Weather Turbulent Times</i>. Washington, DC:
NACUBO, 2009.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Soliday, Joanne and Rick Mann: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Surviving to Thriving: A Planning Framework for Leaders of Private
Colleges and Universities</i>. Whitsett, NC: Credo, 2013.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Winter Convocation Welcome</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">23 January 2023</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">The following
text is my Welcome to our Winter Convocation on the first day back to campus
this Monday:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Welcome to
Susquehanna University’s Winter Convocation, a highpoint in our annual
commemoration of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and for many of
you, welcome back to campus. I hope you had a restorative break. I know you
join me in welcoming our speaker, </span><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Autumn Rose
Miskweminanocsqua Williams, to our campus.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Let us begin by
acknowledging </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">the Susquehannock tribe whose name we bear. It means those
who live in a place where water is heard grating on the shore, commonly known
as the river people because they lived in unanimity and balance with the river
and land. This campus rests on their un-surrendered territory, and we
strive to honor their memory by being mindful stewards of this beautiful place.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">I want take this
opportunity to tell you about some recent experiences I have had and to share
with you something that is hanging heavily on my heart. Over the past few
weeks, I have been privileged to meet and learn from a number of scholars and
leaders who honor Dr. King’s legacy every day in the important work they do.
These have included:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Shelly Lowe, Director
of the National Endowment of the Humanities, and a member of the Navajo Nation,
reflected on how her own experiences and heritage are helping her to guide the
NEH and thereby our nation to achieve a more inclusive scope and understanding
of what our collective humanities are and how they can make our lived
experience richer and our shared communities broader.</span></span></p>
<h1><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
heard an inspiring talk by Jarvis Givens, author of <i>Fugitive Pedagogy:
Carter G. Woodson and the Art of </i></span></span><span class="A7"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Black Teaching</span></i></span><span class="A7"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">, which
tells of how teachers in segregated black schools included lessons about
African-American history and culture out of sight of white school boards,
because they knew it was the right thing to do, even though they faced dire
consequences if this work was found out. Many of these same teachers secretly
conveyed information about their schools to the NAACP along with their own
dollars to support the legal work that would result in Brown vs. The Board of
Education, bringing a legal end to public-school segregation. </span></span></h1>
<h1><span class="A7"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dr. Givens kindly gave me an advance copy of
his forthcoming book<i>, </i></span></span><span class="a-size-extra-large"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness</span></i></span><span class="A7"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">, which provides a history of black
segregated schools through the stories of the children who attended them,
reminding us that their experience was the greatest cause for reform.</span></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A7"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A7"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-themecolor: text1;">I heard a presentation </span></span><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">by
Eddie Cole, whose recent book, </span></span><cite><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle
for Black Freedom</span></cite><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">, provides an
historical evaluation of how college and university presidents responded to and
engaged in the Civil Rights movement, for good and for bad. He said, “I wonder
if they would have made different decisions if they could see how their
legacies played out over the subsequent 50 to 60 years,” and he encouraged current
presidents to consider that perspective in guiding the work we do today.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span></p>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;"><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Last Friday, I attended a
presentation given by Annette Gordon-Reed, author of the
Pulitzer-Prize-winning, </span></span><span class="mw-headline"><i><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family</span></i></span><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, and the best-selling history, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">On Juneteenth</i>.</span></span><span class="A7"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Dr. Gordon-Reed began
her remarks by sharing reflections about the work of a national panel she was
on in 2010 that outlined a path forward to elevate the humanities and liberal
education in the United States. Then she turned to a discussion of efforts to
eliminate critical components of slavery from the teaching of Texas history in
Texas public schools and the recent announcement from the Florida Department of
Education that Florida public schools will not offer AP African-American Studies
because, </span></span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">“As
presented, the content of this course is inexplicably contrary to Florida law
and significantly lacks educational value.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">The Hechinger
Report that same day stated: “Florida’s latest ban follows a series of steps…
including imposing </span><a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23310524/doc-044-order-granting-mot-for-prelim-inj.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">speech codes</span></a><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> on university professors and pushing
the so-called “</span><a href="https://apnews.com/article/education-florida-discrimination-campaigns-presidential-elections-942f021c3070e7d1cdfb59d2351b6a75"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Stop WOKE Act</span></a><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">” that restricts conversations on race
and prohibits instruction that might cause guilt or shame for historic
wrongdoings like slavery.” </span><a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">This follows
Florida’s recent “Don’t say gay” law.</span><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">This is wrong,
intellectually, educationally, and morally. It is an afront to academic freedom
and a slap in the face of humanity. How will history judge us if we don’t speak
up?</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-no-proof: yes;">Susquehanna’s mission is to educate students for productive, creative, and
reflective lives of achievement, leadership, and service in a diverse, dynamic,
and interdependent world</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">We achieve this by opening ourselves up to the lived
experiences and perspectives of others. We honor each other through a shared
pursuit of truth and understanding. We embrace difference, and we acknowledge
how truly interdependent we are.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">As Dr. King wrote in his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Letter
from Birmingham Jail</i>, we are all “caught in an inescapable network of
mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly,
affects all indirectly.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Earlier in her talk,
Dr. Gordon-Reed averred that Thomas Jefferson’s commitment to education was rooted
in his understanding that it was critical for our ability to move from subjects
to citizens. When fundamental limits are placed on education, democracy is
under threat.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">As John Adams wrote: </span></span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">“Liberty cannot be preserved without a
general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their
nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has
given them understandings, and a desire to know…Let us dare to read, think,
speak, and write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let every order and
degree among the people rouse their attention and animate their resolution…”</span><a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[2]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Let us use the
inspiration from today’s convocation as fuel to rouse our attention and animate
our resolution. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Let
us dare to read, think, speak, and write</span><span class="A7"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">
to support a complete education and open discourse in defense of a just and
democratic future for all.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a> <a href="https://hechingerreport.org/column-pop-quiz-what-state-just-banned-a-high-school-advanced-placement-african-american-studies-course/">https://hechingerreport.org/column-pop-quiz-what-state-just-banned-a-high-school-advanced-placement-african-american-studies-course/</a>
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<h3 style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;"><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Adams, John: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law</i>
(1765)</span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"></span></h3>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Susquehanna Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745406804222245665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4022104091772967452.post-57826432724348077452022-12-31T12:13:00.004-08:002022-12-31T12:13:34.297-08:00State of Play 2023<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>State of Play 2023</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The state of higher education seems to live near a precipice,
and as we enter a new year, many of us are clinging to the edge. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the final weeks of 2019, I posted what I believed were
the eight leading threats to higher education. At the time they were:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Constantia; mso-fareast-font-family: Constantia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Market Disturbance</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Constantia; mso-fareast-font-family: Constantia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>National Association for College Admission
Counseling (NACAC) Changes</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Constantia; mso-fareast-font-family: Constantia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Price Sensitivity</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Constantia; mso-fareast-font-family: Constantia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>International Student Decreases</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Constantia; mso-fareast-font-family: Constantia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>2026 “Demographic Cliff”</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Constantia; mso-fareast-font-family: Constantia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Poor Public Understanding of What We Do</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Constantia; mso-fareast-font-family: Constantia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Geographic Population Redistribution</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Constantia; mso-fareast-font-family: Constantia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Limited Reputation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I many ways, most remain, but their respective scale and
impact have changed dramatically over the past three years.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We had our “black swan” market disturbance with the arrival
of the Covid-19 pandemic, which set all of the other pieces caroming about.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We have reached a new stage of normal following the <a href="https://www.lcwlegal.com/news/nacac-removes-recruiting-rules-from-code-of-ethics-and-professional-practices-in-light-of-doj-investigation-and-potential-litigation-and-signs-consent-decree/">legal
changes</a> in recruiting practices (the dissolution of the old NACAC
standards), which were fresh and untested in 2019. Most institutions were less
predatory and most students and their families were less prone to peregrinate than
many of us expected.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Following a couple of years of decline, international enrollments
were decimated by the pandemic. Nationally, we have seen a gradual rebound, but
it is a different market. Political challenges in China and the war in Ukraine
have changed the balance of international students on our campuses and the
destinations domestic students seek when studying away.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The “<a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/will-your-college-survive-the-demographic-cliff?cid2=gen_login_refresh&cid=gen_sign_in">demographic
cliff</a>,” when we know the number of traditional college-age students will
drop by about 1.1 million between 2026 and 2028 became foreshadowed as a
consequence of the pandemic. Population data had projected a slight increase in
enrollments between 2019 and 2026 when the 18-year-old population would
continue to climb slightly before hitting a 6% and then 8% drop.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Overall population numbers have logically tracked, but in
the past three years, 1.2 million fewer traditionally aged students dropped out
of college or chose not to enroll. Higher education experienced the fall off
the cliff, and the real cliff is still 3 to 4 years ahead.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Like institutions across all sectors, the pandemic created
huge expenses and significantly undercut revenues for higher education, but
many of us found significant savings from the cessation of costly programs (for
us study away is 5% of our overall budget). Government relief also softened the
blow.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now that we have fundamentally gone back to normal
operations, we are doing so with about 7% fewer students nationwide, and the
remaining 93% have been redistributed. In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://ngrawe.sites.carleton.edu/the-agile-college/">Agile College</a></i>,
Nathan Grawe predicted that as the demographic cliff approached, not only would
geographic redistributions affect enrollments by region, but a move toward
flagship publics and elite independent institutions would exacerbate the impact
on regional publics and private institutions outside of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">U.S. News</i> top 5o lists.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Independent colleges and universities in Pennsylvania have
seen enrollment declines ranging from 6% to 25% since 2019. For
tuition-dependent institutions, which is most of us, there has been a parallel
drop in revenue. These decreases have occurred against the backdrop of 7+%
inflation. As a result, many institutions have developed structural deficits.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A common trope on many independent college campuses has been
that when a number of struggling sister institutions close, the remaining
schools will take on the students they would have enrolled and reach a
financially sustainable enrollment. The problem with that “plan” is that
closings hurt the reputation of our sector, and our fundamental competitors are
large publics, oddly not each other. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Of Susquehanna’s top ten cross-applicant institutions, only
one is a four-year private. Our main competitors are Temple, Pitt, Rutgers, the
University of Delaware, and our number one competitor is Penn State.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is where we are the victims of a lack of understanding
of what we do compounded by a limited reputation. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Recently, I put forward a comparison to prospective
students: “In preparing for your future, do you want to have all of your classes
led by expert faculty dedicated to teaching, have a faculty member serve as
your advisor and mentor as you complete independent research and creative work,
and develop hands-on expertise with state-of-the-art equipment and in field
work, or do you want to be able to be able to say you attended 20 massive
tailgate parties?” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For most students at Susquehanna, that truly life-changing
first path comes at a considerably smaller out-of-pocket cost. The challenge is
in helping enough of them to understand the benefits, financial and personal.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Small residential liberal-arts institutions offer a proven <a href="https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/roi2022/">return</a> on
investment. They focus on the <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/182306/big-six-college-experiences-linked-life-preparedness.aspx">experiences</a>
and <a href="https://dgmg81phhvh63.cloudfront.net/content/user-photos/Research/PDFs/2013_EmployerSurvey.pdf">skills</a>
that best support student development and preparation for lives of consequence,
and yet they struggle to maintain their share of a shrinking market.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One of the great unknowns about the coming few years is if
traditional percentages of 18-year-olds will return to our campuses before the
demographic cliff hits, or will we see another million+ drop compounding our
current dilemma. In either case, the economics of small independent colleges
and universities has rarely been so dynamically challenging. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We need to adjust our operations to align with our current
resources while striving to capture a larger share of a smaller market. It is
good business, but more importantly, it will be good for students.</p>
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{margin-bottom:0in;}</style></p>Susquehanna Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745406804222245665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4022104091772967452.post-77049294808202816412022-12-13T16:08:00.005-08:002022-12-13T16:08:53.172-08:00Alphabet Soup<p class="MsoNormal">Alphabet Soup - Higher-Education Organizations<br />
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There are dozens of national, international, and regional
organizations supporting higher education. The following list, which although
possibly exhausting, is far from exhaustive, can serve as a decoder ring for
their acronyms along with an explanation of the role each plays and a hyperlink
to their respective websites.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.aacc.nche.edu/">AACC</a> –
American Association of Community Colleges – One of “The Six” Higher-Education
Organizations in Washington, DC; they represent almost 1,200 institutions</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.aacsb.edu/">AACSB</a> –
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business – This is the leading
accrediting body for business schools in the U.S. It has become quite
international in scope, accrediting more than 950 schools of business around
the world in over 1oo countries and territories.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.aacrao.org/">AACRAO</a> -
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers – They
establish the standards by which academic credit is recorded and transferred.
In the U.S., most institutions will accept transfer credit from other
regionally accredited institutions. AACRAO often serves as the objective
reviewing body when institutions are asked to accept international transfer
credits.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.aacu.org/">AAC&U</a> – American
Association of Colleges and Universities – this is the organization that
focusses on liberal-arts education across higher education with an emphasis on
enhancing the quality of teaching and learning and advocacy on the power of a liberal
education.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.aahea.org/index.php">AAHEA</a>
– American Association for Higher Education and Accreditation – Founded in
1870, this was originally the “Department of Higher Education” of the <a href="https://www.nea.org/">NEA</a> (National Education Association). It later
became a free-standing organization that has become focused on supporting and
accrediting faith-based institutions.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://aascu.org/">AASCU</a> –
American Association of State Colleges and Universities – One of “The Six”
Higher-Education Organizations in Washington, DC; this began as the Association
of Teacher Education and has come to represent state-supported institutions.
They focus on expanding access to all students. They have over 400 member
institutions.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.aau.edu/">AAU</a> –
Association of American Universities – One of “The Six” Higher-Education
Organizations in Washington, DC; this is the organization of leading research
universities, 2 Canadian and 60 from the U.S. They work on policies and best
practices for research and scholarship in higher education.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.aaup.org/">AAUP</a> –
American Association of University Professors – Founded by John Dewey and
Arthur Lovejoy in 1915, the AAUP was initially founded to protect academic
freedom and to identify and foster best practices in the academy, it has
subsequently also become a labor-advocacy organization of the professoriate.
Their “Red Book,” <i>Bulletin of the American Association of University
Professors</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, has become the
foundation of best practices and principles connected to academic freedom and
tenure.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.aauw.org/">AAUW</a> - America
Association of University Women – Founded in 1881, they have advocated for
equity for women and girls in higher education.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.counseling.org/membership/aca-and-you/university-college-counselors">ACA</a>
– American Counseling Association – This is the principal organization of
professional counselors in the U.S., including college and university
counselors.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://acad.org/">ACAD</a> - American
Conference of Academic Deans – This group, supporting academic leaders “above
department chairs and below presidents” provides professional developments and
the exchange of best practices for academic leadership at the dean and provost
level.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://acbsp.org/">ACBSP</a> -
Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs – This group was founded
in 1988 to provide an accreditation option based on teaching and learning alone
for business programs whose research commitments did not align with those
required by AACSB.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.collegecounseling.org/">ACCA</a>
– American College Counseling Association – This is the leading organization
for collegiate mental healthcare professionals.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.acenet.edu/Pages/default.aspx">ACE</a> – American Council on
Education – One of “The Six” Higher-Education Organizations in Washington, DC;
this is the umbrella organization of higher education that represents public,
private, and community colleges, it has about 1,800 member institutions and
organizations.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://myacpa.org/">ACPA</a> -
American College Personnel Association – This is one of two leading
organizations for student affairs staff.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.goacta.org/">ACTA</a> –
American Council of Trustees and Alumni – This is a conservative group that
calls on trustees to hold higher-education institutions accountable for their
curricular requirements. They grade institutions each year in a report card
called “What will they learn.” The idea is reasonable, but the execution is
inconsistent. Some of the nation’s best colleges get failing grades for not
requiring coursework in specific departments. Just because a student isn’t
required to take a course in the history department doesn’t mean that they
don’t learn history.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://agb.org/">AGB</a> – Association
of Governing Boards – They support college and university boards of trustees, promoting
best practices among boards.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.airweb.org/">AIR</a> -
Association of Institutional Research – This is a national association for
institutional researchers and institutional effectiveness officers. They advocate
for best practices and for consistent use of data across higher education.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.annapolisgroup.org/">Annapolis
Group</a> – Originally founded in 1984 as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberlin_Group_of_Libraries">Oberlin Group</a>,
the Annapolis Group constituted itself in 1993. It is a presidential group of
the leading independent residential liberal arts colleges in the U.S. They
confer to support best practices and to advocate for their sector. They host a
joint annual meeting for presidents and chief academic officers that is
traditionally held in Annapolis, MD.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.aplu.org/">APLU</a> -
Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities – One of “The Six” Higher-Education
Organizations in Washington, DC; founded in 1887, it is North America’s oldest
higher-education organization; they have 218 members including 76 land-grant
universities and the 33 Native-American land-grants schools. Two-thirds of
sponsored research in higher education occurs on their member campuses. </p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.ashe.ws/">ASHE</a> –
Association for the Study of Higher Education – This group has over 2,200
members dedicated to analysis and research on higher education.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/">Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching</a> – This organization was founded
in 1905 by Andrew Carnegie and Chartered by Congress the following year. This
organization created the “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Unit_and_Student_Hour">Carnegie
Unit</a>” as a shared concept of the credit hour; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teachers_Insurance_and_Annuity_Association_of_America">TIAA</a>
(Teachers Insurance and Annuity Associate) the leading retirement fund in
higher education; <a href="https://www.ets.org/">Educational Testing Service</a>,
the group that produces the SAT and GRE exams; and the Carnegie Classification
System that categorizes institutions as research, regional comprehensive,
baccalaureate, etc.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.cas.edu/">CAS</a> – Council
for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education – This is a consortium of
41 professional organization in higher education who work together to create
shared standards and best practices across student development and student
affairs operations.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.case.org/">CASE</a> –
Council for the Advancement and Support of Education – This is the national
organization for advancement (fundraising), marketing, and communications
professionals in higher education.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.chea.org/">CHEA</a> -
Council for Higher Education Accreditation – This is the national organization
that sets standards and supports accreditation of institutions across higher
education. This includes disciplinary and regional accreditors. <a href="https://www.chea.org/about-ciqg">CIQG</a> is the CHEA International
Quality Group that provides parallel services for non-U.S. institutions. They
are members of <a href="https://www.inqaahe.org/">INQAAHE</a>, the
International Network of Quality Assurances Associations in Higher Education,
which is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.chemanet.org/">CHEMA</a> –
Council of Higher Education Management Associations – This is an informal
organization of many of the organizations on this page along with other
organizations that provide support of services for higher education. It is
coordinated by NACUBO.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.cic.edu/Pages/default.aspx">CIC</a>
– Council of Independent Colleges – This is a national organization of about
690 private, mostly residential, teaching and comprehensive colleges. They
present annual conferences for Chief Academic Officers and Presidents, a series
of professional development programs to prepare the next generation of higher-education
leaders, and a variety of academic initiatives, notably <a href="https://www.cic.edu/programs/legacies-of-american-slavery">Legacies of
American Slavery</a>, <a href="https://www.cic.edu/programs/public-humanities">Humanities
Research for the Public Good</a>, and <a href="https://www.cic.edu/programs/netvue">NetVUE</a>, a program exploring the
role of vocation in intellectual inquiry. </p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.ciee.org/">CIEE</a> –
Council for International Educational Exchange – Founded by IIE, this
organization operates over 175 study abroad programs in over 40 countries.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://cuprap.org/">CUPRAP</a> –
College and University Public Relations and Associated Professionals – This group
promotes and celebrates marketing and public relations in support of higher
education. It began as a Pennsylvania-based organization and has gained a
national footprint,</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.educause.edu/">EDUCAUSE</a>
– This is the information technology organization within higher education.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.hacu.net/hacu/default.asp">HACU</a>
- Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities – This serves as a hub
organization for HSIs (Hispanic Serving Institutions), but it also provides
advocacy and support across higher education for Hispanic students and how all institutions
can better support their education and networking opportunities.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.hedsconsortium.org/">HEDS</a>
– Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium – This is a voluntary member
organization of mostly liberal-arts colleges and smaller comprehensives who
share data. The consortium is housed at Wabash College and provides its member
with many sector analyses.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://heri.ucla.edu/">HERI</a> – Higher
Education Research Institute – Housed at UCLA, this organization conducts
research across many facets of higher education. These include useful surveys
of faculty and students</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.iie.org/">IIE</a> –
Institute of International Education – Founded in 1919, IIE promotes international
student exchanges and conducts significant statistical research on
international higher education, most notably in <i><a href="https://www.iie.org/Research-and-Insights/Open-Doors">Open Doors</a></i>,
an annual report on study abroad. They have created NAFSA and CIEE, and they
sponsor aid for international exchange and relief,</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/">IPEDS</a> –
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System – is a data collection branch of
<a href="https://nces.ed.gov/">NCES</a> (National Center for Education
Statistics), which in turn is an operation of the U.S. Department of Education.
This is the repository for much of the data institutions must submit to the
federal government.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.nacacnet.org/">NACAC</a> –
National Association for College Admission Counseling – This organization provides
standards and guidance for counselors in secondary schools who advise students
about college selection, and they support those who recruit students to attend
college. In 2019, the Department of Justice challenged a long-standing set of
standards aimed at eliminating interinstitutional competition for students once
an enrollment decision was made. They sponsor many college fairs. There are 23
regional affiliates with some truly delightful acronyms. My favorite is
NYSACAC, the NY affiliate. </p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://nacada.ksu.edu/">NACADA</a> – National
Academic Advising Association – This is an international organization of over
10,000 academic advisors on more than 2,400 campuses. They are housed at Kansas
State University.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.naceweb.org/">NACE</a> –
National Association of Colleges and Employers – This is the principal
organization that supports career services professionals and career placement
offices.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.nacubo.org/">NACUBO</a> - <em><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman \(Body CS\)";">National Association of College and University Business
Officers – This is the leading organization for those who lead business and
finance offices on college campuses. They provide professional development,
guidance on best practices, and compile and analyze valuable comparative data,</span></em></p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.nadohe.org/">NADOHE</a> –
National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education – This is an
organization of Diversity Officers that also partners with other national
organizations to share best practices and to advocate for DEIJ across the
academy.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.nafeonation.org/about/">NAFEO</a>
– National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education – Founded in
1969, this is the national organization that specifically support HBCUs
(Historically Black Colleges and Universities).</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.nafsa.org/">NAFSA</a> –
founded as the National Association of Foreign Student Advisers – now NAFSA:
Association of International Educator – This organization supports study-abroad
professionals and advises international students wishing to attend U.S.
institutions. They also support English as a Second Language programs.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.naia.org/landing/index">NAIA</a>
– National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics – This is the athletic association
for about 25o smaller higher-education institutions, most of whom offer
athletic scholarships. They began as a result of the creation of the NIT
(National Invitational Tournament), a basketball tournament that predates the
NCAA tournament by two years. They were the first national athletic association
to invite Historically Black Colleges and Universities into membership.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.naicu.edu/">NAICU</a> –
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities – One of “The
Six” Higher-Education Organizations in Washington, DC; This is the lobbying
organization for independent higher education in DC; its membership includes
over 1,000 institutions; <a href="https://www.naicu.edu/membership/naicuse">NAICUSE</a>
(National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities State
Executives) is a subgroup of the state- and district-based (37 states, Puerto
Rico, and DC) organizations that represent these institutions on the state
level.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.naspa.org/home">NASPA</a> -
National Association of Student Personnel Administrators – This is the
principal organization for student affairs professionals.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.ncaa.com/">NCAA</a> –
National Collegiate Athletic Association – This is the national athletic association
for over 1,100 institutions. Founded in 1906, the NCAA moved to university and
collegiate level competitions in 1957, and then to its current three-division
system in 1973. Division III does not allow athletics scholarships; Division II
allows athletics scholarships and is generally small to moderate-sized institutions;
and Division I allows athletics scholarships and includes many large institutions.
Much of the funding for the NCAA comes from the television revenue derived from
the “March Madness” men’s basketball tournament.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://nchems.org/">NCHEMS</a> - National
Center for Higher Education Management Consulting – This organization helps
institutions and systems in their strategic planning work.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Some Pennsylvania-specific bonuses:</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://aicup.org/">AICUP</a> –
Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania – This organization
supports 92 independent, non-profit higher-education institutions in the Commonwealth.
They provide and foster lobbying efforts in support of the students at our
respective institutions, and they coordinate over 30 shared services creating
savings to each participating institution for software, insurance, cyber
security, and many other programs.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.passhe.edu/Pages/default.aspx">PASSHE</a> – Pennsylvania State
System of Higher Education – This is the organization of 10 state-owned
institutions. Previously comprising 14 institutions, the system recent merged
two triads into unified institutions retaining 3 campuses each.</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.pheaa.org/">PHEAA</a> –
Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Authority – Created in 1963 by the PA
General Assembly, PHEAA provides a range of financial-aid services including
loan guarantee, loan servicing, and a range of other aid services. They also
administer the state’s need-based higher-education grant program.</p>
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{margin-bottom:0in;}</style></p>Susquehanna Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745406804222245665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4022104091772967452.post-5587618301646494542022-11-24T05:24:00.001-08:002022-11-24T05:24:13.447-08:00 Happy Thanksgiving<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Happy Thanksgiving</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Like most colleges and universities, Susquehanna has a rich
set of traditions. What sets ours apart is that they are truly meaningful, not some
insiders-only rituals tied to institutional arcana, but meaningful to anyone
who witnesses or experiences them. These include <a href="https://www.susqu.edu/campus-life/student-and-campus-services/first-year-experience/new-student-move-in/">Move
In</a>, <a href="https://www.susqu.edu/live/news/1501-susquehanna-university-welcomes-class-of-2026">Opening
Convocation</a>, <a href="https://www.susqu.edu/about-susquehanna/history-and-traditions/su-serve/">SU
Serve</a>, <a href="https://www.susqu.edu/campus-life/student-activities-and-programs/community-service/su-give/">SU
Give</a>, <a href="https://www.susqu.edu/about-susquehanna/history-and-traditions/christmas-candlelight-service/">Candlelight</a>,
<a href="https://www.susqu.edu/about-susquehanna/history-and-traditions/commencement/senior-celebrations/">Senior
Hike</a>, <a href="https://www.susqu.edu/about-susquehanna/history-and-traditions/commencement/baccalaureate/">Baccalaureate</a>,
and <a href="https://www.susqu.edu/about-susquehanna/history-and-traditions/commencement/">Commencement</a>.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What they have in common is that they are focused on welcoming,
expressing gratitude, and giving. Of all our traditions, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=SusquehannaU&set=a.10160654974233856">Thanksgiving</a>
is my favorite, because it is such a wonderful combination of all three (Commencement
will always be my favorite event).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We host three seatings over two days. The last of these is
for the seniors. At each, I welcome the students and offer a toast, a student
or staff member provides a blessing, and then volunteers from the faculty and
staff, along with some of their family members, serve dinner, which is eaten
family style.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is a full, traditional Thanksgiving meal, complete with
turkeys being carved at the table, and of course, vegan, vegetarian, and
gluten-free options. Leftovers are sent home with any students who want them,
and the rest of what remains is donated to local food banks.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What I most enjoy about this tradition is how much my
colleagues enjoy serving the meal and how grateful the students are. This year,
a number of housekeepers and facilities crew members who had come in at 4:00
a.m. stayed into the evening to serve. Anyone who questions the values of the
next generation of adults just needs to witness the outpouring of gratitude from
our students and feel their sense of community to have that faith restored.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The tradition began in 1981, and even during the height of
the pandemic we kept it going. Although in 2020, it was a take-away affair, but
the expressions of thanks being uttered through masks may have been the most
profound of all. Tina Landis from SU Dining Services, known as “Miss Tina” and
a campus celebrity, has participated in all 42 years of the tradition.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After the tables have been cleared, the servers and our
Dining Services colleagues sit down for their own meal together.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">During our first year at Susquehanna, there was a snow storm
the evening of the senior dinner. Members of the Student Government Association
offered to help cover for staff who couldn’t get back to campus. Meanwhile,
dozens of facilities workers were clearing sidewalks, roads, and parking lots.
When the servers’ meal was about to begin, we called the snow-removal team to
the dining hall to join us for a hot meal. We were thankful for the meal, but
mostly, we were gateful to be with each other.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We truly have so much for which we should be thankful. Being
members of a living-learning community dedicated to each other is highest among
them. Happy Thanksgiving! </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Susquehanna Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745406804222245665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4022104091772967452.post-34249340273444858782022-10-20T04:32:00.006-07:002022-10-20T04:34:58.588-07:00A Happy Anniversary<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">A Happy Anniversary</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Five years ago today, I enjoyed the remarkable
privilege to be inaugurated as Susquehanna’s fifteenth president. As part of
that ceremony, I delivered the address below to assembled trustees, faculty,
staff, students, and friends of the university along with numerous delegates
representing sister institutions. It was an outline of the foundations of our
enterprise and my goals for the university.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dramatic complications have been interjected into
those plans, but, as an academic community, we have continued to pursue the
objectives presented that day. I am so proud of the concerted effort of so many
to advance these objectives. Some highlights include:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-outline-level: 1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Community</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-outline-level: 1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We have continued to engage our broader
community by hosting numerous meetings of regional employers to collectively
improve inclusion efforts in the valley.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-outline-level: 1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We will soon move into our Downtown Center on
Market Street to shorten our metaphorical driveway and build on our
relationship with Selinsgrove.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-outline-level: 1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We have strengthened our ties to the </span><a href="https://www.gsvcc.org/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Greater
Susquehanna Valley Chamber of Commerce</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> and amplified our government relations efforts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-outline-level: 1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Citizen
Leadership</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-outline-level: 1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Over the past three elections, we have
dramatically increased voter participation among our students earning us the <a href="https://www.susqu.edu/live/news/1356-su-honored-as-state-voting-challenge-winner">most
improved campus in Pennsylvania</a> award from the All In Democracy Challenge.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-outline-level: 1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We were among the initial institutions to
join the Liberal Arts College Racial Equity Leadership Alliance.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-outline-level: 1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Global
Citizenship</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-outline-level: 1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We have continued to build on our </span><a href="https://www.susqu.edu/academics/study-abroad/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Global Opportunities</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
or GO Program, through which all SU students study abroad. During the pandemic,
we created virtual opportunities for meaningful intercultural engagement.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-outline-level: 1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Our Sigmund Weis School of Business became
the first business school in the world to </span><a href="https://www.susqu.edu/academics/sigmund-weis-school-of-business/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">guarantee an international internship</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-outline-level: 1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Access</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-outline-level: 1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We have continued to expand our support of
all students with a focus on increasing persistence and graduation rates.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-outline-level: 1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We are recipients of a </span><a href="https://www.susqu.edu/inclusive-excellence/trio-student-support-services/about-trio-program/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">TRiO</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> grant that provides additional resources to support the success of
at-risk students.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-outline-level: 1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We joined the </span><a href="https://americantalentinitiative.org/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">American Talent Initiative</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, a collective of the best colleges and universities in the nation that
are collaborating to increase the number of students from lower- and middle-income
families who enroll and graduate from our institutions. Susquehanna was one of
the institutions lifted up by the ATI in their </span><a href="https://americantalentinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/0624_ATI_2021-Impact-Report_v4.pdf"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">annual report</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> for leading the organization in meeting our
goals.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">These lofty goals remain our collective loadstones
as we continue to advance the university’s noble mission.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">The New American Scholar</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">20 October 2017</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">On September
first 1858, at the laying of the cornerstone of the Missionary Institute, now
Selinsgrove Hall, Joseph Casey, Esq. provided remarks that included this quote:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">“Education, in
its legitimate sense, includes not only the cultivation of the mental powers,
but the proper training and development of the moral sentiments and faculties,
and its true object is to ‘make us not only wiser but better…’”<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Over the past
few months, many of you have heard me refer to the four pillars of our work
together: Engagement, Citizen Leadership, Global Citizenship, and Access. Truly
these are four perspectives on the same fundamental objective of Susquehanna
University: helping students to be not only wiser, but better.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Susquehanna has
always been an integral part of this community. Leaders of 19<sup>th</sup>-century
Selinsgrove provided land and financial resources to create the Missionary
Institute. It was local leaders who insisted that the Susquehanna Female
College and the Classical Department be founded along with the Missionary
Institute to provide a transformative education for their children who were not
called to the ministry, and it is those two branches that persist as the
University we know today.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">We will strengthen
our rich symbiotic relationships with Selinsgrove, Snyder County, and the
Greater Susquehanna Valley through an expansion of our Service Leaders Program
and a broader array of internships and externships in service to local
businesses and non-profits. We will work with commercial and community partners
to organize a diversity summit to unite our leading institutions in efforts to
improve diversity and inclusion throughout the region. We will build upon our
success in developing strategies to improve the environmental health of the
river, its tributaries, and our region. We will also expand our capacity to be
a resource for action research to the broader community by applying student and
faculty expertise to real challenges brought to us by the community. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">We
will be not only wiser, but better.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">This
is what we are called to do.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Citizen
Leadership has always been at the core of liberal education (meaning a
broad-based education rooted in free inquiry and critical reflection), but
rarely in our nation’s history has anti-intellectualism been so prominent, and <u>never</u>
in our history has the critical relationship between liberal education and the
preservation of an enlightened democratic republic been so poorly understood.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Twenty-one
years before the laying of the cornerstone of the Missionary Institute, Ralph
Waldo Emerson gave his now famous address, “The American Scholar,” to the Phi
Beta Kappa society in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was a remarkably
forward-looking essay that did much to transform higher education and higher
thought in our nation, and ultimately, the world. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
referred to it as America’s “Intellectual Declaration of Independence.”<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">In his speech,
Emerson outlined three tenets of a scholar’s work, and for these purposes, all
who teach and study here and at our sister institutions are the scholars to
whom Emerson spoke. In summary, these tenets are:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">First:
The scholar is our most attuned observer and interpreter of the natural,
physical world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Second:
The scholar interprets the past and the works of the past to help inform our
understanding of the present world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Third:
Now this is where Emerson was seen as revolutionary. The scholar must be a
person of action. The scholar must proclaim his observations. He must report
his analyses so that they may be applied to the pursuit of a greater good. <a href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/142616.Shirley_Chisholm"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shirley Chisholm</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> said, “You don't make progress by standing on
the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing
ideas.” </span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Emerson further
defined the duties of the scholar as: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0.25in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt;">The office of the
scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst
appearances… He is to find consolation in exercising the highest functions of
human nature. He is one, who raises himself from private considerations, and
breathes and lives on public and illustrious thoughts. He is the world's eye.
He is the world's heart. He is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades
ever to barbarism, by preserving and communicating heroic sentiments, noble
biographies, melodious verse, and the conclusions of history. Whatsoever
oracles the human heart, in all emergencies, in all solemn hours, has uttered
as its commentary on the world of actions, — these he shall receive and impart.
And whatsoever new verdict Reason from her inviolable seat pronounces on the
passing men and events of to-day, — this he shall hear and promulgate</span></i><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt;">.<a href="#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">As ground
breaking as Emerson’s words may have been to his audience, liberal education
has always had its roots in application. The ancient Greeks organized the
framework of studies they believed were necessary to prepare free men to be
informed and effective citizens. The Latin, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">artes
liberales</i>, referred to the intellectual pursuits for free citizens.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">In the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nicomachean Ethics</i>, Aristotle discusses
the differences and interrelatedness of applied skills or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">techne</i> (</span><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">τέχνη</span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">),
practical wisdom - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">phronesis</i> (</span><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">φρόνησις</span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">), and theoretical wisdom - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sophia</i> (</span><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Σοφíα</span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">). We could think about these as skills,
problem solving, and an understanding of universal truths. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What is true, what is good, and why?</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">This kind of
thinking is our contemporary world’s greatest want, and it is what liberal
education makes possible. The Stoics, in a prescient nod to the enlightenment,
declared that this intellectual endeavor is what truly made one free. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Professor Coleen
Zoller recently reminded me that Plato’s Academy was so named because he chose
the location for his lectures to be within a beautiful grove of olive trees
named for the hero of Greek mythology, Hekademos (</span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ἑ</span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">κάδημος</span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">). Our beautiful arboretum campus is an
intentional nod to that heritage.</span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">The rise of the
cathedral and monastic schools in medieval Europe led to the integration of
liberal and professional education to prepare students to lead the church. In
addition to the Trivium and Quadrivium, these schools provided training in
canon law, disputation, and accounting. The Faith had rules, priests preached,
and churches had treasuries. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">It was at this
time that the guild model came to be applied to university life. The
Magistorum, or masters, professed and the Scholarium, or scholars, were their
students. We acknowledge this part of academic history every time we don these
robes for formal events.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">The scientific
revolution set the stage for the enlightenment and provided some of the best
role models for Emerson’s scholar. These scientists observed the natural world and
imparted the truth of their science. Copernicus determined that the sun was in
the center of our solar system through mathematics. This was then confirmed
through direct observation by Galileo, who when asked to recant his finding in
the face of 17<sup>th</sup>-century “alternative facts,” apocryphally declared,
“E pur si muove — And yet it moves.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">This same rigor
came to be applied to the humanities leading to the Age of Enlightenment, an
era that was guided by the motto, “Dare to Know,” and led to the advancement of
personal liberty, tolerance, the separation of church and state, and
constitutional governments.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">The spirit of
the enlightenment found fertile soil in the American colonies. The founding
fathers were keenly aware of the relationship between liberty and knowledge. In
1765, John Adams wrote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Dissertation on
Canon and Feudal Law</i> in which he stated:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0.25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt;">The poor people, it is
true, have been much less successful than the great. They have seldom found
either leisure or opportunity to form a union and exert their strength;
ignorant as they were of arts and letters, they have seldom been able to frame
and support a regular opposition. This, however, has been known by the great to
be the temper of mankind; and they have accordingly labored, in all ages, to
wrest from the populace, as they are contemptuously called, the knowledge of
their rights and wrongs, and the power to assert the former or redress the
latter. I say RIGHTS, for such they have, undoubtedly, antecedent to all
earthly government, — Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human
laws -- Rights, derived from the great Legislator of the universe.<a href="#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Our nation’s founders were rapacious
consumers of information and systematic in their application of that knowledge
in their world’s laboratory. They knew that their inspired experiment to create
a democratic republic would require broadly educated citizen leaders to foster
and develop this revolutionary form of modern government.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">George
Washington’s belief in the critical role education would play in our national
development continued throughout his career of public service. The draft of his
first inaugural address embraces the foundation of liberal education:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: .25in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.25in; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Whenever the opportunity shall be furnished to you as
public or as private men, I trust you will not fail to use your best endeavors
to improve the education and manners of a people; to accelerate the progress of
arts & sciences; to patronize works of genius; to confer rewards for
invention of utility; and to cherish institutions favourable to humanity</span></i><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt;">.<a href="#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">In
his final annual address to Congress, Washington outlined his dreams for a new
nation, calling for the formation of a national university and a national
military college:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: .25in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.25in; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt;">The assembly to which I
address myself is too enlightened not to be fully sensible how much a
flourishing state of the arts and sciences contributes to national prosperity
and reputation.</span></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: .25in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.25in; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: .25in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.25in; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt;">… and a primary object
of such a national institution should be the education of our youth in the
science of government. In a republic what species of knowledge can be equally
important and what duty more pressing on its legislature than to patronize a
plan for communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the
liberties of the country?<a href="#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[7]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Washington was not alone in his patronage of
the intellectual future of the republic. The five authors of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Declaration of Independence</i> were public
intellectuals of the highest order. Robert Livingston was a distinguished man
of letters who amassed a personal library of over 4000 volumes. John Adams was
a founder of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Roger Sherman was a member
of the Yale University faculty and served as the University’s treasurer.
Benjamin Franklin provided the leadership to create the College of
Philadelphia, which became the University of Pennsylvania, and of all his
accomplishments, Thomas Jefferson took his greatest pride in having established
the University of Virginia.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ours
is a nation conceived in intellectual idealism. The visionary leaders who
conceived this republic were deep thinkers who embodied the best citizenship
that is at the heart of liberal learning. They were avid scientists, political
theorists, natural historians, and moral philosophers. Theirs was, however, an
idealism deeply rooted in practical wisdom. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Among
the many articles in the first volume of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Transactions of the American Philosophical Society</i> (whose early
members included Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Thomas
Paine, and Benjamin Rush) were the Society’s observations of the Transit of
Venus in 1769, an essay on grape cultivation and wine making, and designs for
an automated bilge pump. The preface of that initial volume stated:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: .25in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.25in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Knowledge is of little use, when confined to mere
speculation… the members propose to confine their disquisitions, principally,
to such subjects as tend to the improvement of their country, and advancement
of its interest and prosperity.<a href="#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[8]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
American Academy of Arts and Sciences was established in 1780. Its founders
were John Adams, John Hancock, and James Bowdoin. Among the members inducted
the following year were Washington and Franklin. Its creation is another
notable example of the founders’ belief in the relationship between liberal
learning and citizen leadership. As their Charter states, the purpose of the
Academy is:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: .25in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.25in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">… to cultivate every art and science which may tend to
advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and
virtuous people.<a href="#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[9]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt;"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">The same spirit of scientific thinking
and its companion flourishing of the enlightenment that fueled these societies,
provided the spark that created our new republic, and to provide a citizenry
equipped to lead this nation, the founders cultivated institutions of higher
education rooted in the liberal arts. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">As noted before, Franklin founded Penn
and Jefferson founded the University of Virginia. Washington provided support
for the creation of Washington College in Maryland, and he provided a
transformative gift to the Augusta Academy, which is now known as Washington
and Lee University. Patrick Henry and James Madison were critical to the
founding of Hampden-Sydney College, and Madison succeeded Jefferson as Rector
of UVA. Hamilton College was named for Alexander Hamilton, one of its first
trustees, and Benjamin Rush founded Dickinson. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">These institutions and those founded
upon their model, prepared the next generations of leaders. Our liberal arts
colleges have continued to produce a disproportionately high percentage of
leaders in science, letters, business, and government. We develop informed
citizen leaders in no small part to safeguard democracy from thuggery and mob
rule.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">And so, here we are 241 years after the
signing of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Declaration of
Independence</i> and 180 years after Emerson’s address in a nation so starved
for citizen leadership that we find ourselves perilously divided not over
competing social philosophies of left and right, but quite literally over
issues of right and wrong. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">We have entered into an
anti-intellectual climate in which a significant portion of our populous is
willing to reject scientific facts in favor of convenience and self-interest.
An inconvenient truth is no less true. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Likewise, spewing hate speech is not an
exercise of civil liberties; it is a mockery of them, and denying social
justice for any of us, diminishes justice for all. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">We must do better. The domains in which
we will apply citizen leadership are sustainability, social justice, and
diversity. I frequently tell students that we are here to learn how to have
difficult conversations. Like Emerson’s scholar who “raises himself from
private considerations, and breathes and lives on public and illustrious
thoughts,” we must rise above the noise that distracts our public discourse
from the fundamental aims of responsible action, compassion, and human decency.
We must be the world’s eye, we must be the world’s heart, and we must be the
world’s voice.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">We must not
despair, as Abigail Adams wrote, “These are times in which a genius would wish
to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific
station, that great characters are formed…Great necessities call out great
virtues.”<a href="#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[10]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">This was our
calling in 1858, and it remains our calling today. We must not only be wiser,
we must be better.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">This is what we are called to do. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">At Susquehanna University, we welcome
the stranger. Our friends in Hillel recently reminded us that this is the most
frequent command in the Torah. This is how we learn what we have in common and
how we can learn to celebrate our differences. This is what it means to be a
Global Citizen.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">The term
cosmopolitan is attributed to Diogenes of Sinope, the great Cynic philosopher
who is said to have lived in a large clay pot. When asked from where he came,
Diogenes said, “I am a citizen of the world.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Our friends the
Stoics who declared that it was a liberal education that made one free,
developed Diogenes’s dictum into the concept that each of us is from two
communities: the place where we are born and the human community writ large. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Over 2,000 years later, in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Perpetual Peace</i>, Immanuel Kant wrote: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: .25in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.25in 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The
peoples of the earth have now gone a great distance in forming themselves into
smaller or larger communities; this has gone so far that a violation of rights
in one place is now felt throughout the world. So the idea of a <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">law of world citizenship </span>is not a
legal flight of fancy; rather, it is necessary to complete an unwritten code of
civil and international law as well as mankind’s written laws; and so it is
needed for perpetual peace. Until we can establish a law of world citizenship,
we must not congratulate ourselves on how close we are coming to that.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: .25in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.25in 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Susquehanna’s
Global Opportunities, or GO, Program requires that all our students have a
study-away experience that engages them in different cultures. Our academic preparation
before the GO trip and the interpretive unpacking that happens on campus after
our students return strives to give them the skills to appreciate and respect
cultural difference. We must prepare our students to be effective advocates for
their neighbors near and far. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">This
is what it means to be a global citizen. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">This
is what we are called to do.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">There are many
things about this institution that inspire me, but our history of providing
access to a transformative, world-class education to meritorious students from
across the socio-economic spectrum remains one of the most moving. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: .25in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.25in 0in 22.5pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.25in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
Marie Curie said, “You cannot hope to build a better world without improving
the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and,
at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity.”<a href="#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[11]</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">In 2014, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i> published a ranking of
the most economically diverse colleges and universities in the United States.
Susquehanna University was proud to be ranked 9<sup>th</sup> in the country</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Susquehanna
achieved this position with the <u>lowest endowment per student of the top-50</u>
institutions. The average endowment per student of those top-50 institutions
was over 9.4 times that of Susquehanna, and the institution with <u>the next
lowest</u> endowment-per-student ratio <u>was still 60% higher</u> than
Susquehanna’s.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">At Susquehanna,
31% of the students in this year’s incoming class are PELL-eligible, meaning
that socio-economically, they come from the lowest 20%. This means that
Susquehanna is making it possible for a 70% larger-than-average share of
America’s most financially disadvantaged students to transform their lives with
a high-quality university education. In contrast with our 31%, the Ivy League
only enrolls an average of 18% PELL-eligible students.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">From these
humble beginnings and with our modest means, our students outperform the highest-ranked
institutions in the nation. This spring, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zippia</i>
published a list of the colleges and universities in the United States with the
highest employment rates of its graduates. Susquehanna was <u>ranked No. 1 in
Pennsylvania and No. 9 in the nation</u>. </span></p>
<p class="Body"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="Body"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Since
its founding, this university has done more with less. This has been the result
of institutional grit and self-sacrifice coupled with the scrappiness of our
students and alumni who will not let go of their goals.</span></p><p class="Body"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">The landscape of higher education continues
to elevate the challenges in our path: when adjusted for inflation, the
families sending students to Susquehanna have less capacity to pay than they
did in 2000, and the resources required to sustain our academic competitiveness
and reputation have continued to outpace those means. The world needs
Susquehanna graduates now more than ever. This is why we must secure the funds
to make a Susquehanna education available to all deserving students in
perpetuity.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">This is what we are called to do. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">This is what we must do for the New
American Scholar.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Like Emerson’s Scholar, The New American
Scholar is an observer of nature, an interpreter of the past, and a person of
action, but the New American Scholar represents the spectrum of human
diversity. The New American Scholar is more likely to be a woman than a man. The
New American Scholar is truly a citizen of the world: as young people come to
our colleges and universities from around the globe to become, and to help <u>all</u>
our students to become, cosmopolitan citizen leaders. This is Susquehanna. We are
the New American Scholar.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Let us celebrate
our motto through action: Achievement. Leadership. Service.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">We will celebrate
access through academic achievement,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">We
will celebrate engagement through service to the community, and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">We will celebrate
our citizenship in the world through leadership.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Susquehanna University
educates students for productive, creative and reflective lives of achievement,
leadership, and service in a diverse, dynamic, and interdependent world </span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">to “make us not only wiser but better.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><u><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">This</span></u><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">
is what we are called to do.</span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">Thank you!</span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Joseph Casey, Esq.: “Remarks delivered at the laying
of the corner-stone of the Missionary Institute at Selin’s Grove, PA, September
1, 1858.”</span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Susan Cheever: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">American
Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau; Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work</i>,
80. Detroit: Thorndike Press, 2006.</span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn3" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Ralph Waldo Emerson: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The American Scholar</i>. 1837.</span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn4" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ibid</i>.</span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn5" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> From John Adams: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law</i>, 1765.</span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn6" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> G. Washington: Draft of the First Inaugural Address,
c. January 1789</span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn7" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: .25in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.25in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><a href="#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[7]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt;"> __________: Eighth
Annual Address, 7 December 1796</span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn8" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[8]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> “Preface,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Transactions
of the American Philosophical Society</i>, volume 1.</span></p>
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<div id="ftn9" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[9]</span></span></span></span></a>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Charter of the Incorporation
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> 4 May 1780.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[10]</span></span></span></span></a>
Abigail Adams, Letter to JQA, 19 January 1780.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[11]</span></span></span></span></a> <i><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pierre Curie</span></i><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (1923), as translated by
Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 168</span></p>
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{margin-bottom:0in;}</style> <br /></p>Susquehanna Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745406804222245665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4022104091772967452.post-91510193619560140472022-10-07T08:31:00.000-07:002022-10-07T08:31:01.895-07:00Achieve, Lead, Vote<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Yesterday, on my way into the Campus Center for lunch, a
group of students sitting at a table called out to ask if I was registered to
vote. I replied that I had already mailed in my ballot and received
confirmation that it had arrived. The student group was not advocating for a
candidate or a party, just participation in democracy. They gave me an “I
voted” pin and asked me to wear it to encourage students to do the same.
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Last weekend, as part of Family Weekend, Nick Clark, Professor
of Political Science, presented a session entitled, “Understanding Why People
Vote and What is Going to Happen in the 2022 and 2024 Elections.” Nick shared a
range scholarship on reasons why people do or don’t vote, issues that affect
participation in and outcomes of American elections, and historical election
results across midterm and presidential elections during the past six decades.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There were many families in attendance. They were deeply
engaged in the presentation, and as it ended, a number of them praised Nick for
his clarity and his non-partisan approach. They were clearly relieved and
surprised that he did not share his leanings or favor any side. He responded to
the latter by indicating that this is the tradition of his discipline in the classroom.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I was momentarily surprised by their surprise, but then
remembered how much the press and many politicians accuse the academy of
indoctrination. There are correlations between educational attainment and
voting patterns, but that has been true for at least a century, and it has
shifted from one side to another. Our faculty and their colleagues around the
country strive to give their students the tools to be informed citizens, and
they encourage them to participate in democracy, but that’s where it generally
stops.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Susquehanna University has been engaged in a concerted
effort to increase student participation and engagement in elections. The table
at the Campus Center is an example of those efforts. A co-curricular effort
called “Achieve, Lead, Vote” was another. It was especially focused on
promoting student voter participation in the 2020 election.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Recently, I received the NSLVE (National Survey of Learning,
Voting, and Engagement) <a href="https://idhe.tufts.edu/nslve/2020">report</a>
from IDHE (Institute for Democracy and Higher Education), which is run out of
Tufts University. This report collects voter participation data for institutions
of higher education around the country and analyzes those data across time.
They also disaggregate the data to help institutions strategize ways to
continuously improve voter participation among their students, and by
extrapolation, their alumni.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These efforts have helped increase voter registration and voting
rates by students across higher education. In 2014, the national undergraduate
voting rate was 18%, in 2018 it was 39%, and in 2020 it was 68%.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Historically, Susquehanna had trailed the national
participation rate with only a 7% voting rate in 2014. This climbed to 28% in
2018, a significant improvement, but still well behind national numbers.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That changed in the 2020 election. We went from trailing to
leading. 75% of SU students voted in the 2020 election. It is one of the most
dramatic improvements in the nation. I am grateful for the work of my
colleagues from the faculty and staff who have helped students meaningfully
engage in the democratic process, and I am proud of our students for exercising
one of the greatest privileges of citizenship.</p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Susquehanna Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745406804222245665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4022104091772967452.post-64844859783909973032022-09-18T18:45:00.004-07:002022-09-18T18:46:29.384-07:00Read Banned Books<p>
</p><a href="https://bannedbooksweek.org/">National Banned Book
Week</a> began today.
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some of the most frequently banned books in American history
include these classics:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">1984</i> –
George Orwell</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</i> – Mark Twain</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Catcher in the Rye</i> – J.D. Salinger</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Color
Purple</i> – Alice Walker</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Great
Gatsby</i> – F. Scott Fitzgerald</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I Know Why
the Caged Bird Sings</i> – Maya Angelou</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lord of
the Flies</i> – William Golding</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Of Mice
and Men</i> – John Steinbeck</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">One Flew
Over the Cuckoo’s Nest</i> – Ken Kesey</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">To Kill a
Mockingbird</i> – Harper Lee</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in the
number of books being challenged in this country. These complaints have called
for books to be removed from curricula and from the shelves of school and
public libraries.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In a recent <a href="https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2022/09/ala-releases-preliminary-data-2022-book-bans">press
release</a>, the American Library Association (ALA) announced:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: .25in; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0.25in;"><b><i>Between January 1 and August 31, 2022, ALA documented 681
attempts to ban or restrict library resources, and 1,651 unique titles were
targeted.</i></b><i> In 2021, ALA <a contenteditable="false" data-feathr-click-track="true" href="https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2022/04/national-library-week-kicks-state-america-s-libraries-report-annual-top-10" target="_blank" title="https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2022/04/national-library-week-kicks-state-america-s-libraries-report-annual-top-10">reported</a> 729
attempts to censor library resources, targeting 1,597 books, which represented
the highest number of attempted book bans since ALA began compiling these lists
more than 20 years ago. </i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: .25in; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0.25in;"><i>Additionally, <b>more than 70 percent of the 681 attempts
to restrict library resources targeted multiple titles.</b> In the past,
the vast majority of challenges to library resources only sought to remove or
restrict a single book. </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The ALA publishes lists of the <a href="https://www.ala.org/news/mediapresscenter/presskits/bbw">most frequently
challenged books</a> each year. Here are some <a href="https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks">additional resources</a> from the
ALA office of Intellectual Freedom.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We each enjoy the right to read what we want and not to read
what we do not. Banned Book Week is an opportunity to recognize that democratic
privilege and to call us to action to protect those rights. On a daily basis,
we see news of groups and individuals challenging these fundamental intellectual
freedoms, and we must be vigilant.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This summer, I visited <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Empty_Library">The Empty Library</a>.
It is a memorial created in 1995 by the Israeli sculptor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha_Ullman">Micha Ullman</a>. In the
middle of a square in the middle of Humboldt University in Berlin, now known as
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebelplatz">Bebelplatz</a>, this
memorial consists of empty shelves that can be seen through an unmarked sheet
of glass on the ground. These shelves represent more than 20,000 books burned
by the Nazis on that site on 10 May 1933.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These books were pulled from the University library because
of the backgrounds of the authors or because they were critical of aspects of
society and history. Sound familiar?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At our campus memorial event for 9/11, I read this passage
from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Deuteronomy</i>, 4:9:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, <b>lest
thou forget</b> the things which thine eyes have seen, and <b>lest they depart</b>
from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy son's
sons…”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Banned Books Week exists to be sure that we do not forget,
that we do not repeat the sins of the past. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I encourage all of us to read books this week (and every
week) that have been challenged or are being challenged, so we can better
engage in conversations on the precious value of intellectual freedom and the
freedom to read.</p>
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{margin-bottom:0in;}</style></p>Susquehanna Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745406804222245665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4022104091772967452.post-38544762089281485482022-08-26T08:32:00.000-07:002022-08-26T08:32:02.629-07:00Convocation Remarks 2022<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We hosted opening convocation yesterday, welcoming 624 new students and their families to Susquehanna. Below is the message I shared with them.<br /></span></span></p><p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Convocation Remarks</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Convocation means to be
called together – from <i>vocare</i> meaning voice. We are called together to
signal your entry into the life of this university and to celebrate the
beginning of your matriculation. It is an opportunity to declare a new
beginning for all of us, to be drawn together with one voice to affirm what we
are called to do.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Students you are beginning an
extraordinary chapter in your lives, but in addition to your excitement, I know
you are experiencing cognitive overload. This is a moment in your lives when
you are likely experiencing the most concurrent change: a new community; a new
role; soon to be new classmates, neighbors, and friends; will they like you,
will you like them; a new academic experience with a different kind of faculty
(you’ll soon discover how great they are) and a different set of academic
responsibilities. For most of you, for the first time, home has just become a
place different from where your family lives.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">You are all hitting your
limits of newness. You are probably also reaching your thresholds for the
unfamiliar and different, and here I am in a pink velvet robe acting as if you
will remember anything I say to you today. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In addition to formally
welcoming you and signaling the beginning of Susquehanna’s 165<sup>th</sup>
academic year, I believe that this is an important occasion to affirm why you
are here and to give you some basic, but critical advice on how to make the
most of your college experience.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">As many of you already know,
Susquehanna’s mission statement is: </span><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We
educate students for productive, creative, and reflective lives of achievement,
leadership, and service in a diverse, dynamic, and interdependent world</span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">More succinctly, we help
students to become better neighbors and better citizens. We are here to help
you discover your best selves and to prepare you to live your lives most fully.
Those are lofty goals, but I have the privilege seeing them fulfilled every
day. The greatest rewards are reaped by the students who dive in deepest and
are most present. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Every spring, seniors lament
that their four years went by much too fast, and they scramble to make every
possible remaining connection. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Life goes by faster and
faster, and your college years especially will go by in the blink of an eye. It
is an experience much like how almost 1300 years ago, the Venerable Bede
described the passing of our lives in the kingdom of God. He wrote:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: .25in; margin-top: 0in; mso-outline-level: 1;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The
present life of people here on earth (as a comparison to our uncertain
lifetimes) is like a sparrow entering the house, and flying through swiftly, it
enters one window and straightway flies out another, while we sit at dinner in
wintertime…the room made warm by the fire kindled in our midst while all places
outside are troubled by the raging tempests of winter rain and snow. For that
moment, the sparrow feels not the winter storm, but after a brief moment in
passes again from winter to winter and escapes our sight. So, our lives appear
here for a brief season, and what precedes and follows we surely know not.</span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> <a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">You have the wonderful privilege
to savor the comfort and luxury of that metaphorical warm banquet room. My fear
is that you will miss out on truly life-changing relationships because of your
own fear of missing out on superficial virtual engagements. You are all vastly
interesting people, which means you are surrounded by vastly interesting
people. You are in a beautiful place brimming over with opportunities. Put down
your phones and revel in being here with each other. Dive in and make the most
of your time here, because we need you to be enlightened and able leaders
prepared and eager to steer our weary world to better times.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We are here because deeply
engaging in the life of the mind and opening ourselves up to the holistic world
view that is the core of a liberal arts education prepare us to make good and
often difficult decisions. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Each of us hopes to seek the
truth, and we find our calling, our vocation in advancing what we believe to be
in our own, and hopefully our collective best interest. This is what it means
to have a life well lived. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">This is why you are here.
This is why we are all here. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The faculty and staff at
Susquehanna are here because they share a commitment not to tell you what to
think, but they will prepare you to discern what is true, what is good, and
what is just.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">They will prepare you to
figure out what matters and why, and more importantly, they will help you to
develop the skills to be advocates for the causes that become your passions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">As a living learning
community, we must always strive to be better. We must commit to being a
community where all members feel welcome, respected, loved, and able to
flourish. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">This is what we are called to
do. This is our one voice, our vocare.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We must be an example for our
neighbors. This is what is means to achieve, lead, and serve. This is what it
means to be Susquehannans.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">At the laying of the
cornerstone of Selinsgrove Hall in 1858, which was the founding of this great
university, Joseph Casey stated, “Education, in its legitimate sense, includes
not only the cultivation of the mental powers, but the proper training and
development of the moral sentiments and faculties, and its true object is to
‘make us not only wiser but better…’”<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman \(Body CS\)"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Today, I invite you to your
graduation in May of 2026. Each year, I give this charge to the graduates.
Today, I challenge you to commit to doing all you can during your time at
Susquehanna to meet this charge to your fullest.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Achieve all you can for good, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lead with honor and humility, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Serve with love and pride, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">And always strive to be not only wiser, but better. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Welcome home!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><br clear="all" />
<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" />
<div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman \(Body CS\)"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>
Adapted from Bede: <i>Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation</i>,
translated by J.E. King, 283-285. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press—Loeb
Classical Library, 1930</p>
</div>
<div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-left: 9.0pt; text-indent: -9.0pt;"><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman \(Body CS\)"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> Joseph Casey, Esq.: “Remarks delivered at the laying
of the corner-stone of the Missionary Institute at Selin’s Grove, PA, September
1, 1858.”</span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Susquehanna Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745406804222245665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4022104091772967452.post-23767155718657420402022-08-02T13:58:00.003-07:002022-08-02T13:58:47.885-07:00The Bully Pulpit<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal">The Bully Pulpit</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I recently attended a lecture given by <a href="https://www.jonmeacham.com/">Jon Meacham</a> at Chautauqua Institution where
he was introduced as “One of America’s leading public intellectuals.” Meacham
responded with his trademark self-effacing humor and a quip to the effect that
just by being a public intellectual these days qualifies you as a leading one.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We certainly have a surplus of pundits, or at least talking
heads promoted as subject experts across the spectrum of news outlets and media
feeds, but Meacham may be right in recognizing that we are experiencing a time
in which the recognition and value of public intellectuals has ebbed.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This would align with the precipitous decline in Americans’
faith in institutions. A recent <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/394283/confidence-institutions-down-average-new-low.aspx">Gallup
poll</a> showed that across parties, Americans are expressing record low
confidence in institutions ranging from congress to newspapers to medical
systems and public schools. In Meacham’s talk, he noted that in 1965 76% of
Americans believed the U.S. government would do the right thing most of the
time, and now, that number is 9%. If we don’t trust institutions, it should be
no surprise that we may feel the same way about high-profile individuals.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What I find intriguing is that at the same time, campus
communities seem to want their leaders to speak out on a wide range of topics. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When I was student in the 1980s, I don’t recall the president
of my alma mater publicly opining on any major issues of the day. That was
typical across higher education. In recent years however, students, faculty and
staff, and more and more alumni have expressed a desire for their institutions
to articulate a position, typically through the voice of the president, on major
events and issues.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">College presidents do have the luxury and the curse of
possessing some of the few remaining bully pulpits outside of social media. As
I have written before, we can and should be political, advocating for our
institutions, our students, our employees, and our alumni, but we can’t be
partisan</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Like many of my peers, I have made public proclamations
about Pell funding, DACA students, research funding, and academic freedom, but
I stay far away from endorsing candidates or parties. Public partisanship from
campus leaders could jeopardize an institution’s access to Title IV funding,
but lobbying and advocating for policies and programs that benefit our
constituencies is part of our jobs.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Often, we are called upon to make statements that are less
directly aligned with our duties as institutional advocates, including topics
of social justice, human rights, geopolitical conflicts, and legal issues.
Determining when to speak and when to remain silent can be a challenge. We want
to be responsive to members of our communities in need of support, but that can
run the risk of alienating others, or creating new institutional lightning
rods. It is also important to recognize that expressing one’s personal beliefs may
be incongruent with articulating an institutional message.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">According to a <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-silent-treatment">recent survey</a>
from the <i>Chronicle of Higher Education</i>, fear of sparking controversy has
led many presidents to become less inclined to speak out on pressing current
issues. That survey revealed that the following percentages of respondents
indicated these topics are “so controversial that you self-censor your public
remarks to avoid creating controversy for you or the institution.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in right 4.0in;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in right 4.0in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>National politics<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>83%</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in right 4.0in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>State politics<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>66%</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in right 4.0in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Gender/sexual identity<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>41%</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in right 4.0in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Racial justice<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>37%</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in right 4.0in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Diversity, equity, and inclusion<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>32%</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in right 4.0in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Free speech<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>20%</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in right 4.0in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Covid-19 policy<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>15%</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in right 4.0in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Academic freedom<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>13%</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in right 4.0in;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in right 4.0in;">An institution’s mission,
and in some cases, its religious affiliation, as well as if it is public or
private, all affect whether a president can or should make proclamations on
specific issues. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in right 4.0in;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in right 4.0in;">Universities are built on
principles that create institutional identity. One of the duties of president
is to foster and promote that identity. Another is to cultivate meaningful discourse
on topics of consequence on our campuses and beyond. That is a core foundation
of our enterprise.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in right 4.0in;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in right 4.0in;">A number of my colleagues
at sister institutions have created decision trees and/or guidelines to help
them determine when to comment and when to defer. I use our institutional <a href="https://www.susqu.edu/about-susquehanna/our-guiding-values/mission-statement-and-learning-goals/">Mission
Statement</a> and our board’s <a href="https://www.susqu.edu/about-susquehanna/our-leadership/board-of-trustees/statement-on-ethical-and-inclusive-living/">Statement
on Ethical and Inclusive Living</a> as touchstones in making that
determination. When the conclusion remains ambiguous, I consult board
leadership. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in right 4.0in;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in right 4.0in;">Most of the time, that
works. There will always be members of our extended community who take
exception with any position I articulate. That’s what one should hope for in an
intellectually diverse community. </p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Susquehanna Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745406804222245665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4022104091772967452.post-45522447849049865062022-06-23T11:51:00.000-07:002022-06-23T11:51:05.059-07:00Happy Fiftieth Anniversary: Pell Grant and Title IX<p><b>Happy Fiftieth Anniversary: Pell Grant and Title IX</b></p><p>Fifty years ago today Title IX and the Pell Grant came into being. These programs are two of the most important and effective efforts to expand access and equity in higher education. </p><p>Title IX laid the groundwork for gender equity in education. We need to continue our progress on these important efforts, but these 37 changed American education for the better, forever. <br /></p><div style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><em><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”</span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>— Title IX Education Amendment of 1972 </span></span></span></span></em></span></i><strong><em><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></span></em></strong></span><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: after-white-space; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></div></div></div><div style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: left;">During the past 50 years, over 80 million American students have been able to attend college because of the Pell Grant. Today, doubling Pell would make a college degree affordable for every American.<br /></div><div style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em></em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p>Below, I have pasted a message from Barbara Mistick, President of NAICU (National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities) about the Pell Grant anniversary, and a copy of our campus announcement celebrating the anniversary of the adoption of Title IX.<br /></p><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; width: 600px; word-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 2.5px 5px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: top; width: 590px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top"><img alt="" height="75" src="https://file-us.clickdimensions.com/naicuedu-aazcw/images/naicubranding/presnetheader.png" style="border-width: 0px; height: 75px; width: 580px;" width="580" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 2.5px 5px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: top; width: 590px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top"><a class="imageLinkFinder" href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Felink.clickdimensions.com%2Fc%2F7%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%2FQS-MQhu0EjCE4QmmHhQraw&data=05%7C01%7Cgreenjd%40susqu.edu%7Cdf6452ac8c824edeeb7b08da5537f1fb%7Cf78aa315d9b34b8c9d672e8fefdb2d07%7C1%7C0%7C637915996020142587%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=X2Qc2FZ8bv1ixldiKMlhiJkRsdatJ3RPRmM%2Fnqk5J8k%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><img alt="" height="134" src="https://file-us.clickdimensions.com/naicuedu-aazcw/images/naicu_pell22-logo_fnl.png" style="border-width: 0px; height: 134px; width: 225px;" width="225" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 2.5px 5px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: top; width: 590px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" id="textOnlyTD" valign="top"><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dear Colleague:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today is the day! Today, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Pell Grant program. Throughout its history, the Pell Grant has provided a pathway to higher education for more than<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><u>80 million students nationwide</u></strong>. It is truly a federal student aid program that has had a multi-generational impact on American families.</span></span><br /></div><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 2.5px 5px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: top; width: 590px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><a class="imageLinkFinder" href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Felink.clickdimensions.com%2Fc%2F7%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%2Fc7erVBRvFwHUDhCrWw9uyQ&data=05%7C01%7Cgreenjd%40susqu.edu%7Cdf6452ac8c824edeeb7b08da5537f1fb%7Cf78aa315d9b34b8c9d672e8fefdb2d07%7C1%7C0%7C637915996020142587%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=6Cw3QCdhU98mnsMsmrDznnMn%2F7g45Mpuwmcnp9yc3FU%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><img align="right" alt="" height="149" hspace="3" src="https://file-us.clickdimensions.com/naicuedu-aazcw/images/twitter_isupportpell.png" style="border-width: 0px; height: 149px; width: 149px;" vspace="0" width="149" /></a><span><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">There have been events and celebrations throughout the week here in Washington, DC and around the country highlighting the impact the Pell Grant has had on so many. Yesterday, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>House proposed a $500 increase in the Pell maximum award</strong>. In a bipartisan and bicameral move today, there are resolutions in both the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Felink.clickdimensions.com%2Fc%2F7%2FeyJhaSI6NTgxNDAyMjMsImUiOiJncmVlbmpkQHN1c3F1LmVkdSIsInJpIjoiY29udGFjdC0wNGVkODZjZDYyNDJlNDExYmViNTAwNTA1NjgzMDAwZC1lNWMxYjFjYzIxMzc0Yzg0YWRhNjYyZmYwOTExMzA1MiIsInJxIjoiMDItYjIyMTc0LWM0OThlMWM4ZDQzMTQ4MmNiNmQ0NmY1ZDQ0MDI2YmZjIiwicGgiOm51bGwsIm0iOmZhbHNlLCJ1aSI6IjIiLCJ1biI6IiIsInUiOiJodHRwczovL2RlbGF1cm8uaG91c2UuZ292L3NpdGVzL2RlbGF1cm8uaG91c2UuZ292L2ZpbGVzL0guUmVzXy4xMTkzLSUyME5hdGlvbmFsJTIwRmVkZXJhbCUyMFBlbGwlMjBHcmFudCUyMERheS5wZGY_X2NsZGVlPW5qS1pWUF9iYi1JWG1yaHpNckhWcUJtNm52dmdTMWFDSGFWVGstUjVkMk5oNGQyS29EZjBHVWZubVpjYThoenYmcmVjaXBpZW50aWQ9Y29udGFjdC0wNGVkODZjZDYyNDJlNDExYmViNTAwNTA1NjgzMDAwZC1lNWMxYjFjYzIxMzc0Yzg0YWRhNjYyZmYwOTExMzA1MiZlc2lkPWZjNGQ0YTEyLTA5ZjMtZWMxMS04MTI0LTAwMGQzYTBkZTFhMSJ9%2FpfwURo1tTiOzGR0VBdHPGQ&data=05%7C01%7Cgreenjd%40susqu.edu%7Cdf6452ac8c824edeeb7b08da5537f1fb%7Cf78aa315d9b34b8c9d672e8fefdb2d07%7C1%7C0%7C637915996020142587%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Gqzw7%2FUVXFl8WzCVmKm2AnUaDpZlJaqDvQYuAqp%2B%2BQs%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">House</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Felink.clickdimensions.com%2Fc%2F7%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%2Fqpz64US4FTu3IN0Eb8QZ8A&data=05%7C01%7Cgreenjd%40susqu.edu%7Cdf6452ac8c824edeeb7b08da5537f1fb%7Cf78aa315d9b34b8c9d672e8fefdb2d07%7C1%7C0%7C637915996020142587%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JnSE%2FhFtDI5yInyKcRb3cOkLZCNLhGwmy4%2F2KivF3P0%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">Senate</a> recognizing June 23 as National Federal Pell Grant Day. The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Felink.clickdimensions.com%2Fc%2F7%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%2F4fVXLkgqiZFM7Eg6udmI8A&data=05%7C01%7Cgreenjd%40susqu.edu%7Cdf6452ac8c824edeeb7b08da5537f1fb%7Cf78aa315d9b34b8c9d672e8fefdb2d07%7C1%7C0%7C637915996020142587%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=cBQIJaovuIuzh85u8mkEq8bfc7uCjlpnaCtcUMvIgzM%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">White House</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>also released a proclamation declaring today the 50th Anniversary of the Federal Pell Grant program. Throughout the day, Members of Congress will also be making floor speeches celebrating the Pell Grant. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Finally, later today, NAICU is co-hosting a Pell Grant 50th Anniversary reception on Capitol Hill with the Pell Anniversary Committee that will include Members of Congress, representatives from the Biden Administration, and other higher education leaders and policy makers.</span></div><div></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 2.5px 5px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: top; width: 590px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><a class="imageLinkFinder" href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Felink.clickdimensions.com%2Fc%2F7%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%2FF_yzW8VReb0UzXJIp_FN7g&data=05%7C01%7Cgreenjd%40susqu.edu%7Cdf6452ac8c824edeeb7b08da5537f1fb%7Cf78aa315d9b34b8c9d672e8fefdb2d07%7C1%7C0%7C637915996020142587%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=LpzGTGrd4EE6ahjgTMZt%2Bygk8710KLRSNW%2BQEvkOW08%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><img align="right" alt="" height="170" hspace="3" src="https://file-us.clickdimensions.com/naicuedu-aazcw/images/whydoublepell_facebook.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: 170px; width: 325px;" vspace="0" width="325" /></a><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Pell Grant program remains the fairest and most efficient way to help low-income and first-generation students access and complete college and enter the workforce. However, additional grant aid is needed. That is why we support doubling the Pell Grant maximum award to $13,000.<br /><br />So, on this day marking 50 years of the Pell Grant, we celebrate the impact it has had on so many students and families but also highlight the continued work that must be undertaken to ensure that the maximum award is increased as quickly as possible, putting these expanded resources in the hands of students sooner rather than later. <br /><br />Thank you for all you have done to engage with these efforts to raise awareness of the importance of the Pell Grant. <strong>Happy National Federal Pell Grant Day!</strong></span></span><div></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 2.5px 5px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: top; width: 590px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Regards,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Times New Roman" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Times New Roman" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px;"> Barbara</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Times New Roman" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Times New Roman" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px;"><strong> Barbara K. Mistick, D.M.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Times New Roman" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px;"> President</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities</span></div><div> </div><a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Felink.clickdimensions.com%2Fc%2F7%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%2FD9ADy8DchQ8YBL5Mf6HpVg&data=05%7C01%7Cgreenjd%40susqu.edu%7Cdf6452ac8c824edeeb7b08da5537f1fb%7Cf78aa315d9b34b8c9d672e8fefdb2d07%7C1%7C0%7C637915996020142587%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=T8H9oQWPotQMAqromuobwzInlW3j6n%2F8t%2B%2FA3iN2zxU%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><img height="24" src="https://file-us.clickdimensions.com/naicuedu-aazcw/images/double-pell-logo-narrow.png" style="height: 24px; width: 175px;" width="175" /></a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 2.5px 5px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: top; width: 590px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px;"> <hr /></span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities</span></span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;">1025 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 700,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Washington, DC 20036</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">202-785-8866 <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Felink.clickdimensions.com%2Fc%2F7%2FeyJhaSI6NTgxNDAyMjMsImUiOiJncmVlbmpkQHN1c3F1LmVkdSIsInJpIjoiY29udGFjdC0wNGVkODZjZDYyNDJlNDExYmViNTAwNTA1NjgzMDAwZC1lNWMxYjFjYzIxMzc0Yzg0YWRhNjYyZmYwOTExMzA1MiIsInJxIjoiMDItYjIyMTc0LWM0OThlMWM4ZDQzMTQ4MmNiNmQ0NmY1ZDQ0MDI2YmZjIiwicGgiOm51bGwsIm0iOmZhbHNlLCJ1aSI6IjciLCJ1biI6IiIsInUiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3Lm5haWN1LmVkdT9fY2xkZWU9bmpLWlZQX2JiLUlYbXJoek1ySFZxQm02bnZ2Z1MxYUNIYVZUay1SNWQyTmg0ZDJLb0RmMEdVZm5tWmNhOGh6diZyZWNpcGllbnRpZD1jb250YWN0LTA0ZWQ4NmNkNjI0MmU0MTFiZWI1MDA1MDU2ODMwMDBkLWU1YzFiMWNjMjEzNzRjODRhZGE2NjJmZjA5MTEzMDUyJmVzaWQ9ZmM0ZDRhMTItMDlmMy1lYzExLTgxMjQtMDAwZDNhMGRlMWExIn0%2F_05qlw-HcxLw3uesr6aL-A&data=05%7C01%7Cgreenjd%40susqu.edu%7Cdf6452ac8c824edeeb7b08da5537f1fb%7Cf78aa315d9b34b8c9d672e8fefdb2d07%7C1%7C0%7C637915996020142587%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=8ix3%2BsAV2P8%2BEShD9iH4JllU152HqYPOVDdCgZTLiVw%3D&reserved=0">www.naicu.edu</a></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 14px;"></span><div style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><strong><em><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“No
person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded
from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to
discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal
financial assistance.”</span></em></strong><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> <em>— Title IX Education Amendment of 1972 </em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
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</span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Today,
June 23, marks the 50th anniversary that those 37 words forever changed
the landscape of the education system across the United States.
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</span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Building
upon the language and momentum of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
Representatives Edith Green, Shirley Chisholm, the first Black U.S.
congresswoman, and Patsy T. Mink, the first woman of color elected to
Congress, collaborated on the authorship of Title IX, one of several
education amendments passed in 1972.
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</span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Shortly
after its passing, Susquehanna University moved quickly to comply when
President Gustave Weber appointed a seven-member task force, the
Committee to Review Compliance with Title IX, and charged it to audit
four areas: athletics, instructional affairs, employment/personnel
policies and student affairs.
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</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Below are several of SU’s notable gender-equity achievements to date: </span><br /></span><ul><li><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Athletics:</strong>
1960–1961 marked the first intercollegiate schedule for two women’s
sports teams: field hockey and basketball. Today, SU hosts 12
women’s/co-ed sports teams.</span></span><br /><br class="k-br" /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><strong>Admission: </strong>Susquehanna became coeducational in 1873, sooner than many of its peers. Today, 56% of students enrolled at SU are women.</span><br /><br class="k-br" /></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><strong>Academic Programs:</strong>
Prior to Title IX, many institutions barred women from majoring in the
sciences. The curriculum was constructed around men’s experiences — even
at SU, which in 1970 implemented a Core Program geared toward the
“man’s total experience.” Fast-forward to 2022, where 60% of students
enrolled in our sciences are women and our women’s and gender studies
minor, which launched in 1990, is one of the largest academic minors at
the institution.</span><br /><br class="k-br" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><strong>Support for Survivors of Violence: </strong>Dating
back to the 1970s, the Association of Women Students offered
information pamphlets for survivors of violence to seek local support
and resources. Today, we have a robust partnership with Transitions of
PA. It provides a 24/7 hotline available to our students as well as a
full-time on-campus victim advocate housed in our Violence Intervention
and Prevention Center, which opened in 2018.</span><br /><br class="k-br" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><strong>Parenting Support: </strong>Launched
in 1969, the Association of Women Students began offering babysitting
services for women faculty and staff. This fall, we will open two campus
lactation rooms and help employees temporarily retrofit their offices
for breastfeeding.</span><br /><br class="k-br" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><strong>Title IX Staffing: </strong>SU
recently added a full-time, standalone Title IX coordinator to its
staff. While many similarly sized institutions attach this role’s
responsibilities to other positions and have even defunded some of their
Title IX offices, SU remains dedicated to the work with a full-time
director of Title IX compliance and a robust team, which includes seven
university employees and three external partners. </span><br /><br class="k-br" /></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><strong>Employee Demographics:</strong>
Like much of academia, early roles for women at Susquehanna were often
relegated to administrative support and there were few to no women
faculty or administrators. Now, 50% of faculty and 64% of full-time
staff are women. Additionally, five of the seven (71%) executive board
of trustee members and six out of 14 (43%) senior leadership team
members are women.</span></li></ul><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
We uphold the legacy of Title IX on this anniversary and every day
because we truly believe that no one should be excluded from
opportunities to fully participate in educational experiences based on
their gender.</span></span><br />
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</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">We
look forward to celebrating and affirming our commitment with you
during Susquehanna University’s Title IX 50th Anniversary Celebration
Week taking place Sept. 5–9. </span></td>
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</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><strong>Susquehanna students rallied on campus in support of Title IX in the early 1970s. </strong></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">
</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">
</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>Yearbook caption</em>:
Sue Eastburn, front, and Margy DuVal join athletes and coaches around
the nation fighting for equality in intercollegiate sports. Title IX
forced colleges and universities to provide equal opportunities for
women and men.</span></span></td>
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</table><p> </p>Susquehanna Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745406804222245665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4022104091772967452.post-77093570656342473912022-06-17T13:44:00.000-07:002022-06-17T13:44:03.053-07:00Pomp and Circumstance<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pomp and Circumstance</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Throughout graduation season, I have had a variety of
conversations about the traditions, pageantry, and symbolism connected to
commencement ceremonies and the trappings of the academy.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I thought it would be timely to share some of the arcana
that arises most frequently in those conversations.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Academic Regalia</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">During formal academic gatherings, faculty and often
students will appear in academic regalia. There are different robes for each
degree. There is an <a href="http://intercollegiate-registry.org/about-the-intercollegiate-code-of-academic-costume/">Intercollegiate
Code on Academic Costume</a>, which was established in the 1895 and has been
amended a number of times since. Many institutions have in-house practices that
deviate from these standards.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Robes</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Bachelor’s robes have closed sleeves. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Master’s robes have extended oblong sleeve that
hang below the wrist. I have been told that this is a vestige from a time when
early scholars had a nook in their sleeves to keep their hands warm in unheated
medieval environments.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Doctoral robes in the U.S. typically have bell
shaped sleeves with three velvet stripes. Those stripes may be black, or the
color of the discipline. Presidents of colleges and universities may have four
stripes on their sleeves. I still wear my 30-year-old three-striped model,
which was a graduation present from my wife.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Hoods</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>There are hoods associated with each degree as
well. They combine satin in the institution’s colors with velvet or velveteen
in the color of the discipline.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Bachelor’s hoods are no longer the norm, but
many institutions, including Susquehanna still use them. These are 3 feet long
with 2-inch wide trim.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Master’s hoods are 3.5 feet long with 3-inch
wide trim. These have an oblong extension that mirrors the dangling sleeve of
the master’s robe.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Doctoral hoods are 4 feet long with 5-inch wide
trim.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Part of commencement at many institutions
involves the “hooding” of graduate-degree candidates. At large institutions,
this is sometimes done on the school level independent of the graduation
ceremony.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Special Robes</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Many institutions have customized robes for their graduates.
The bodies of these robes are typically in a color(s) associated with the
institution and often include an insignia, often the shield, of the university
on the front velvet panels of the robe.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here is an example from Boston University:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgC7ReYah6UIyYxg-sZMZ5N2fjkcNWy91RELfuxltROCrBLIX8e4ilNb6-Vu2RpDTIvuEWT6z7Qu89rxVDCvjcVa8inuRxnCfWVBZubqYOli0Fj6wKe0El3h095pGme4lpE8Sh537xI8DWpwmhZoCAqfMwA7SjFAHory_Do0v3aVlrPExNr2tzE3tpJ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="448" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgC7ReYah6UIyYxg-sZMZ5N2fjkcNWy91RELfuxltROCrBLIX8e4ilNb6-Vu2RpDTIvuEWT6z7Qu89rxVDCvjcVa8inuRxnCfWVBZubqYOli0Fj6wKe0El3h095pGme4lpE8Sh537xI8DWpwmhZoCAqfMwA7SjFAHory_Do0v3aVlrPExNr2tzE3tpJ" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Intercollegiate Code standardized colors for each
academic discipline, which can be used for all of the velvet portions of the
regalia. The default velvet color is black. Dark blue, which is aligned with
philosophy is often the stand in for Ph.D. degrees is a variety of disciplines,
but that is usually the choice of the consumer.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here is a list of colors aligned with academic disciplines
from Wikipedia<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman \(Body CS\)"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture" title="Agriculture"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Agriculture</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize_(color)" title="Maize (color)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maize</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts" title="Liberal arts"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Arts</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(<i>liberal arts</i>), </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature" title="Literature"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">letters</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(<i>literature</i>), </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanities" title="Humanities"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">humanities</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White" title="White"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">White</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce" title="Commerce"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Commerce</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accountancy" title="Accountancy"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">accountancy</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_education#Undergraduate_education" title="Business education"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">business</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drab_(color)" title="Drab (color)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Drab</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
</td>
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</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dentistry" title="Dentistry"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dentistry</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilac_(color)" title="Lilac (color)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lilac</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<td style="background: #C8A2C8; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"><br /></td>
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<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics" title="Economics"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Economics</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_(color)" title="Copper (color)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Copper</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #DA8A67; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"><br /></td>
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<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education" title="Education"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Education</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_blue_(color)" title="Light blue (color)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Light blue</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #66CCFF; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"><br /></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering" title="Engineering"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Engineering</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(color)" title="Orange (color)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Orange</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FF7F00; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"><br /></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_art" title="Fine art"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fine arts</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture" title="Architecture"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">architecture</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown" title="Brown"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Brown</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestry" title="Forestry"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Forestry</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_studies" title="Environmental studies"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">environmental studies</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability_studies" title="Sustainability studies"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">sustainability</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn_(color)" title="Auburn (color)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Russet</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism" title="Journalism"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Journalism</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson" title="Crimson"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Crimson</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
</td>
<td style="background: crimson; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"><br /></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law" title="Law"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Law</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple" title="Purple"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Purple</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
</td>
<td style="background: purple; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"><br /></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_science" title="Library science"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Library science</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_science" title="Information science"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Information science</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_(color)" title="Lemon (color)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lemon</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
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<td style="background: yellow; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"><br /></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine" title="Medicine"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Medicine</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_green" title="Kelly green"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Green</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicology" title="Musicology"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Music</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink" title="Pink"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pink</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
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<td style="background: lightpink; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"><br /></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing" title="Nursing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nursing</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apricot_(color)" title="Apricot (color)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Apricot</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<td style="background: #F0A900; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"><br /></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_speaking" title="Public speaking"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oratory</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_studies" title="Communications studies"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">communications studies</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcasting" title="Broadcasting"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">broadcasting</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_(color)" title="Silver (color)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silver gray</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"><br /></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacy" title="Pharmacy"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pharmacy</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
</td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_dress_in_the_United_States#Myrtle_green" title="Academic dress in the United States"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Olive green</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
</td>
<td style="background: olive; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"><br /></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Philosophy</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Blue_(color)" title="Dark Blue (color)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dark blue</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
</td>
<td style="background: darkblue; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"><br /></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_education" title="Physical education"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Physical education</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_therapy" title="Manual therapy"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">manual therapy</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_therapy" title="Physical therapy"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">physical therapy</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_(color)" title="Olive (color)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sage Green</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #317873; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"><br /></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_administration" title="Public administration"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Public administration</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_policy" title="Public policy"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">public policy</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy" title="Diplomacy"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">foreign
service</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
</td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-green" title="Blue-green"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peacock blue</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
</td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health" title="Public health"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Public health</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_(color)" title="Salmon (color)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Salmon</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
</td>
<td style="background: salmon; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"><br /></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science" title="Science"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Science</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_sciences" title="Social sciences"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">social</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_science" title="Natural science"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">natural</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_science" title="Formal science"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">formal</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">)
</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_(color)#Golden_Yellow" title="Gold (color)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Golden yellow</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_work" title="Social work"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Social work</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_brown#Sandy_brown" title="Shades of brown"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Citron</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theology" title="Theology"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Theology</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divinity_(academic_discipline)" title="Divinity (academic discipline)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">divinity</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_(color)" title="Scarlet (color)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Scarlet</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p>
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<td style="background: red; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"><br /></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterinary_medicine" title="Veterinary medicine"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Veterinary science</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey" title="Grey"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grey</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Baccalaureate</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
word baccalaureate mean’s bachelor referring to the undergraduate degree. The
word is derived from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bacca lauri</i>
meaning laurel berry, referring to laurel wreaths placed upon the heads of individuals
honored for their achievement in ancient times. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In modern
times, baccalaureate is also the name for <span style="color: black;">a ceremony,
often religious, held at educational institutions before commencement.
These typically include a “valedictory,” which is literally a farewell speech
to the graduating class. The term <u>valedictorian</u> has come to be used to
identify the graduate with the highest GPA because historically they gave that
address to the class. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Much of the early history of grades in American higher education
was associated with creating a way to determine which student would give that
speech.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Honorary Degrees</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Colleges and Universities often confer honorary degrees to
individuals of extraordinary accomplishment or service. The earliest known
example of this practice was at Oxford University. In 1479, Oxford awarded an
honorary degree to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Woodville">Lionel
Woodville</a> in recognition of his meritorious service as Chancellor of the
University. He later became the Bishop of Salisbury.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pomp and Circumstance</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The British composer, Sir Edward Elgar, composed 5 Marches,
which comprise his opus 39. The first was completed in 1901. It was premiered
along with No. 2 on a concert in Liverpool on 19 October 1901 and was an
immediate success.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In 1905, the trio section was played at the commencement
ceremony at Yale University where Elgar was the recipient of an honorary
degree. This portion of the march has since been played at many graduation
ceremonies in the U.S. and Canada.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In England, that trio is known as “Land of Hope and Glory.” Elgar
adapted it for choir as part of his Coronation Ode for King Edward VII. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mace</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At most higher education institutions, a Faculty Marshall
will lead academic processions carrying a symbolic mace designed specifically for
that institution. The practice began in the 17<sup>th</sup> century in England.
The mace was modeled on ancient battle clubs, but now represents the power of
academic freedom and intellectual autonomy.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At many institutions, the Marshall / mace bearer is an
appointed or elected position. At some, it is an honor bestowed on the longest-serving
faculty member. At one institution where I worked, the mace bearer was the previous
year’s winner of the outstanding professor award.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The mace at Susquehanna was a gift of the Class of 1963. It
was first used at our 108<sup>th</sup> commencement on 30 May 1966. It was made
by Hurst, Franklin & Co., Ltd., metalsmiths of London.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Around the edge of the silver bowl which tops our mace is
the University’s motto, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ad Gloriam
Maiorem Dei</i> (To the greater glory of God). There are four rondels
portraying: an itinerant preacher on horseback, the Seal of Pennsylvania, Selinsgrove
Hall, and Martin Luther’s Coat-of-Arms. There are also 32 stars representing
the states in the U.S. at the time of the University’s founding in 1858. The
top of the mace is a three-dimensional rendering of the University’s Seal.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The same Seal is at the center of the ceremonial chain, or
President’s Seal of Office, that I wear at all formal academic events. It was
first worn by President Weber at the same ceremony at which the mace was
introduced.<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman \(Body CS\)"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><br clear="all" />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_dress_in_the_United_States#Intercollegiate_colors">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_dress_in_the_United_States#Intercollegiate_colors</a>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman \(Body CS\)"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>
Special thanks to Carl Moyer for sharing a copy of the official guide to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Mace and President’s Seal of Office –
Susquehanna University.</i></p>
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{margin-bottom:0in;}</style></p>Susquehanna Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745406804222245665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4022104091772967452.post-22722545576903737282022-05-30T08:47:00.000-07:002022-05-30T08:47:30.085-07:00We are Saved by Love<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">We
are Saved by Love</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">[<i>These were my remarks to the class of 2022 at their commencement on Saturday.</i>] <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">It
is an especially tough time to be a 21 or 22-year-old. Frankly, it’s not the
easiest time to be a 58-year-old.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">When
most of you arrived at SU, none of us could have anticipated the tumultuous
events of the past four years. As we welcomed you on August 23<sup>rd</sup>
2018, I spoke about our academic theme of Resilience stating:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<h1 style="background: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The Liberal Arts
provide us with an array of viewpoints and historical perspectives so we can
better contextualize and understand the challenges we encounter in our lives.</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></i></h1>
<h1 style="background: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></h1>
<h1 style="background: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">In anticipation of the
myriad inevitabilities we all face, you are here to develop the tools to live
your lives as fully as you can, to respond to challenges with grit and poise,
and to lift up those around us whose resolve is spent. </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></i></h1>
<h1 style="background: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></h1>
<h1 style="background: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">I then spoke about the
need to be courageous:</span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Courage
and bravery are not the same thing.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Often
the only difference between bravery and stupidity is who’s telling the tale.
Courage, on the other hand, is deep. It is built upon faith and wisdom, and
fundamentally, it is selfless. You are here to seek wisdom and to develop the
moral courage to become leaders of consequence, to become resilient, and to
cultivate resilience in those around you.</span></i></p>
<h1 style="background: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Little
did any of us know how this would be tested and proved again and again throughout
your matriculation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">A
global pandemic, an eruption of social unrest in response to systemic
inequities, an attack on our nation’s capital by bands of its own citizens, and
a major world power waging war on a neighboring democracy; senseless mass
shootings, climate change, continual assaults on the truth, and politicization
of fundamental moral principles. We are fraying, and we are afraid.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<h1 style="background: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Now sounding prophetic, I recited this passage
from</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">William Butler Yeats’s poem “The Second
Coming,” a</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">t your opening
convocation</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">:</span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></h1>
<h1 style="background: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: .25in; margin-top: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Turning and turning in
the widening gyre<br />
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;<br />
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<br />
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<br />
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere<br />
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;<br />
The best lack all conviction, while the worst<br />
Are full of passionate intensity.<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Written
a century ago, it sounds as if Yeats is describing this moment in history.
Maybe it would have rung as true a century before he wrote it, or even a
century before then. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Perhaps
Dickens’s description is evergreen, and it has always been the best of times
and the worst of times, but I am more optimistic for the future because of you.
I believe you are capable of relegating our worst times to the past.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">I
believe this because I have seen what you are capable of doing;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">I
believe this because I know what you have learned; and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">I
believe this because I have witnessed your kindness, your compassion, your
passion, and your goodness countless times as we have journeyed together.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">You
persevered when you were scattered across the nation and the globe unable to
return to campus. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">You
added your voices to the millions who advocated for justice in its many forms
in your communities and on our campus. You listened to the smallest voices and
echoed them so all might hear.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">You
took care of each other, you made sacrifices to keep each other safe and
healthy, and pushing against seemingly infinite resistance from the world
around us, you arrived at this spot. You have made our mission statement
manifest.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Those of you who know it, please join me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Susquehanna University educates students for productive,
creative, and reflective lives of achievement, leadership, and service in a
diverse, dynamic, and interdependent world</span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">. </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">This is not a pithy slogan. It is the
foundation of global citizenship and the fruit of a liberal education. Over the
coming years, I hope you will reflect on how these lofty goals continue to unfold
in your own lives and how your unprecedented experiences at Susquehanna have cultivated
your capacity to live this mission to its fullest.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">This is what our weary, hungry world needs – your
driven achievement, your selfless leadership, your committed service, and, most
of all, your moral courage.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Our democracy was biproduct of the Scottish
Enlightenment, which embraced the humanist spirit of the Western Enlightenment
that celebrated the nobility and worth of each individual and valued the respective
reason they possessed. The Scottish Enlightenment took this further by rejecting
authority that was not likewise governed by reason. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">This balance of individual autonomy and
collective coherence has been critical to the survival of our republic and to
that of subsequent democracies around the world. Our future as a nation and as
a global community depends upon our ability to inclusively embrace all peoples,
to reconcile what is true, and to govern ourselves through reason for the
common good.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">You have seen first-hand how truly
interdependent we are. We are able to be here today because you chose to work
as a community for the common good, and nearly every setback we experienced
resulted from a moment when someone lost sight of that. As leaders, you must
always choose the common good.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Reinhold
Niebuhr wrote: “Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we
must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense
in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are
saved by love.”<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Our progress will require hope, faith, and
love – these you have in abundance.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Class of 2022, you are graduating into an
alarmingly broken world, but I am hopeful because I know what you can do. I am
so proud of you, of what you have accomplished, and even prouder of what you
will achieve.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Congratulations!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>
Yeats, William Butler: “The Second Coming (1919),” in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats, revised second edition, edited by
Richard J. Finneran</i>. New York: Scribner Paperback Poetry, 1996.</p>
</div>
<div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>
Niebuhr, Reinhold: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Irony of American
History</i>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952.</p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Susquehanna Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745406804222245665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4022104091772967452.post-59384926616420797202022-05-14T18:45:00.002-07:002022-05-14T18:45:37.118-07:00Responsibility and Free Expression<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Responsibility and Free Expression</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A recent conversation with students led me to opine on a <a href="http://www.susquehannapresidentsblog.com/2018/07/">blog</a> I posted in 2018.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The conversation began with concerns about how government controls over
Russian media are leading their coverage of the war in Ukraine to be nothing
but a propaganda campaign.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I told the students about a speech<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">
President Coolidge gave to the Society of Newspaper Editors in which he said, “</span></span><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">The relationship between governments and
the press has always been recognized as a matter of large importance. Wherever
despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be
brought under its control. Where ever the cause of liberty is making its way,
one of its highest accomplishments is the guarantee of the freedom of the
press.”<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;">The
conversation took a turn to the pamphleteers who did so much to shape the
opinions and understanding of the American colonists toward independence and
later the debates that produced our Constitution. The students saw these
federalist and antifederalist publications as a model of a dynamic and balanced
marketplace of ideas that they feel is missing from much of today’s popular media.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The students were lamenting that they believe there is perilously little
accountability in the news sources the majority of their friends and families
follow. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This brought me back to another passage in Coolidge’s speech that emphasized
the need to keep a firewall between the news department and the advertising
branch:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><i>Our American newspapers serve a
double purpose. They bring knowledge and information to their readers, and at
the same time they play a most important part in connection with the business
interests of the community, both through their news and advertising
departments. Probably there is no rule of your profession to which you
gentlemen are more devoted than that which prescribes that the editorial and
the business policies of the paper are to be conducted by strictly separate
departments. Editorial policy and news policy must not be influenced by
business consideration; business policies must not be affected by editorial
programs. Such a dictum strikes the outsider as involving a good deal of
difficulty in the practical adjustments of every day management. Yet, in fact,
I doubt if those adjustments are any more difficult than have to be made in
every other department of human effort. Life is a long succession of
compromises and adjustments, and it may be doubted whether the press is
compelled to make them more frequently than others do</i>.<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He knew that <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/news-habits-media/news-media-trends/state-of-the-news-media-project/">allowing
the commercial enterprise of the press to drive news content</a> would lead us
to some version of what many Americans now mistakenly believe is the news. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Advertising revenues are driven by ratings, and viewers are
drawn to messages that affirm their views and beliefs. The media that once sought
to enlighten and inform now profit by telling us what we want to know rather
than what we need to know.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Objective and ethical news organizations continue to do
important journalistic work, but their audience share is sadly in the minority.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The role of editorial establishments was to verify what they
presented, but now in many news organizations, content is driven by ratings <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01276-5">algorithms</a>. The
formats of delivery allow them to make unsubstantiated claims without recourse.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As more and more Americans get their “news” from social
media sources, the concept of editorial oversight truly becomes meaningless. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Debates about what constitutes a true manifestation of
first-amendment freedoms on social-media platforms have seen a general <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/first-amendment-regulation/617827/">switch</a>
of what are often labeled liberal and conservative positions. Historically, the
“liberal” position was in support of little or no limits. Today, what is often
labeled as the “conservative” position is really a libertarian one: no one’s speech
or writing should be regulated.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The challenge we face is guaranteeing free expression (a
fundamental necessity for democracy to flourish), while holding people
accountable for what they say and write (a fundamental necessity for civilization
to persist). Free speech and free expression are sacred rights, and we who
enjoy those rights should honor them by holding ourselves responsible for how
we exercise them.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Bipartisan Policy Center has sponsored a useful and
thought-provoking <a href="https://bipartisanpolicy.org/report/a-new-roadmap/">roadmap</a>
to help colleges and universities navigate these challenges on our campuses.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As a people, we are at an epistemological crossroads. How
can we divine fact from opinion and truth from mere belief? As we are being nearly
drowned by ever-rising floods of unfiltered and manipulated information, our
collective future will depend upon individuals who can rescue the truth from the
deluge of noise. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is the heart of a liberal-arts education. We teach our
students to verify what they read and hear, we help them to think critically
about the information and perspectives they encounter, and we encourage them to
advocate for their conclusions. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Let us hope that those who drive the media will
do likewise.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><br clear="all" />
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<div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>
Coolidge, Calvin: Address to the <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Society of American
Newspaper Editors, 17 January 1925.</span></p>
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<div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>
Ibid.</p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Susquehanna Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745406804222245665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4022104091772967452.post-46250341259360124412022-04-15T15:37:00.000-07:002022-04-15T15:37:04.115-07:00Rooted and Open<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rooted and Open</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All three of the Abrahamic religions are in the midst of important
sacred seasons: Holy Week for the Christians, Passover for the Jews, and
Ramadan for the Muslims. These religious traditions share a commitment to
humility, supporting those in need, and fundamentally being good neighbors. In
their best times, they have borne a commitment to ecumenicalism, and each has a
rich history of scholarship and teaching. For centuries, faith and reason have
met in the world’s great universities.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of sharing a meal with
Chaplain Kershner and <a href="https://www.unitedlutheranseminary.edu/about/president">Guy Erwin</a>,
the President of the United Lutheran Seminary <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and Ministerium of
Pennsylvania Chair and Professor of Reformation Studies. Rev. Erwin was on
campus to discuss the possibility of creating an articulation agreement between
Susquehanna and the Seminary in support of our pre-ministry students.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We were founded in 1858 to provide
training to young men who wished to become missionaries, but whose families lacked
the means to provide them the then traditional education required for this
work. Our founder, Benjamin Kurtz, sought a community that would sponsor such
an endeavor, and Selinsgrove offered to help if he would also provide a
traditional liberal-arts education to their sons and daughter who were not
called to the ministry.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The institution and first building were
named the Missionary Institute. Pre-missionary students attended free-of-charge,
while non-seminarians paid tuition and fees and were educated through the Classical
Division and the Female Academy. The institution officially adopted the name
Susquehanna University in 1895 and shortly thereafter renamed the building,
Selinsgrove Hall, in honor of the community that had supported our founding. </span>In
1933, the Theological Department was suspended, ending our seminary work. <a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Every president of Susquehanna was a
Lutheran minister until 1977. Only 6 or 7% of our students identify as Lutheran
today, and we have become a religiously open and pluralistic community. Each
year, two or three of our graduates go on to pursue graduate seminary training,
many of them are Lutheran, and building a partnership with the United Seminary
will enhance their opportunities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Susquehanna has often been described as
Lutheran institution that flourished through Jewish philanthropy. Sigmund and
Harry Weis were Jewish Susquehanna students in the very early years of the 20<sup>th</sup>
century. They and successive generations of the Weis family have provided
generous philanthropic and leadership support to the university. Harry’s son,
Robert, and grandson, Jonathan, served as trustees. Sigmund’s son-in-law,
Charles Degenstein, was also a trustee and a philanthropic champion of the
university. That support continues in perpetuity through the 1994 Charles B. Degenstein
Foundation. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Those relationships were cultivated by Gustave
Weber, the last Lutheran pastor to serve as president of SU, and they speak to
the developing ecumenical spirit the University was beginning to undertake.
That diversity of faith and thought has continued to grow. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Over the past few years, the religious
affiliations of the Susquehanna student body<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>
and the nation<a href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a>
are approximately:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 1.0in right 4.0in 5.0in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 440px;">
<tbody><tr style="height: .25in; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: .25in; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 177.0pt;" width="236"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: .25in; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 88.0pt;" width="117">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Susquehanna</span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: .25in; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">U.S.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: .25in; mso-yfti-irow: 1;">
<td nowrap="" style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: .25in; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 177.0pt;" width="236">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Catholic</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 88.0pt;" width="117">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">30.0%</span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" width="87">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">21.0%</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: .25in; mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 177.0pt;" width="236">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lutheran</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 88.0pt;" width="117">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7.0%</span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" width="87">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.5%</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: .25in; mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 177.0pt;" width="236">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Other Protestant</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 88.0pt;" width="117">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">25.0%</span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" width="87">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">40.5%</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: .25in; mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 177.0pt;" width="236">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Eastern or Greek Orthodox</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 88.0pt;" width="117">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">0.5%</span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.0%</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: .25in; mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 177.0pt;" width="236">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jewish</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 88.0pt;" width="117">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2.5%</span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.0%</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: .25in; mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 177.0pt;" width="236">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Buddhist</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 88.0pt;" width="117">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">0.5%</span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.0%</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: .25in; mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 177.0pt;" width="236">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hindu</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 88.0pt;" width="117">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">0.5%</span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.0%</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: .25in; mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 177.0pt;" width="236">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Muslim</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 88.0pt;" width="117">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">0.5%</span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.0%</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: .25in; mso-yfti-irow: 9;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 177.0pt;" width="236">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mormon</span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 88.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="117">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—</span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2.0%</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: .25in; mso-yfti-irow: 10;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 177.0pt;" width="236">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Spiritual, but not
religious</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 88.0pt;" width="117">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8.0%</span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: .25in; mso-yfti-irow: 11;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 177.0pt;" width="236">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Agnostic/Atheist</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 88.0pt;" width="117">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12.0%</span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11.0%</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: .25in; mso-yfti-irow: 12;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 177.0pt;" width="236">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Secular</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 88.0pt;" width="117">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2.5%</span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .25in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unknown/Other/None</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11.0%</span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">19.0%</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 1.0in right 4.0in 5.0in;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 1.0in right 4.0in 5.0in;">Although our
numbers are similar to the nation, they reflect less religious diversity than
exists within a 200-mile radius of our campus. This why we strive to create an
environment in which all students feel supported in expressing and celebrating their
faith tradition, or lack of one. It is also why the <a href="https://www.susqu.edu/inclusive-excellence/">Division of Inclusive
Excellence</a> includes our Chaplain, Rev. Scott Kershner, and our Director for
Jewish Life, Rabbi Nina Mandel.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 1.0in right 4.0in 5.0in;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 1.0in right 4.0in 5.0in;">Alumni most
frequently invoke our Lutheran heritage when they disagree with something I
have done or when we announce an initiative from which they take discomfort. The
latter is almost always around efforts to be more inclusive, and the former is
the presidential third-rail of sending out a holiday card rather than an
explicitly Christmas card. I realize the disgruntled may have lost their way,
but Susquehanna has not.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 1.0in right 4.0in 5.0in;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As a modern liberal-arts university, Susquehanna’s culture
has been shaped by its Lutheran Heritage in important ways. The University’s
generations-long commitment to service, the enduring ethical core of our
curriculum, our beautiful mission statement (<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We educate students
for productive, creative and reflective lives of achievement, leadership and
service in a diverse, dynamic and interdependent world</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.),
and the Board of Trustees’ recent <a href="https://www.susqu.edu/about-susquehanna/our-leadership/board-of-trustees/statement-on-ethical-and-inclusive-living/">Statement
on Inclusive and Ethical Living</a> are all monuments to what Professor
Emeritus of History, Donald Housely, called our “Goodly Heritage.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In January 2018, the Network of ELCA
(Evangelical Lutheran Church of America) Colleges and Universities adopted a common
calling entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/Rooted_and_Open.pdf">Rooted
and Open</a></i>. It is a collective acknowledgement that the intellectual foundations
of our institutions are rooted in Lutheran traditions and “boldly open” to other
traditions, religious and secular. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We are contemporary institutions
prepared and committed to serve students from all faith traditions or none, and
to do so with the widest array of intellectual resources we can muster. We
affirmed that we must be institutions of “radical hospitality, so that all may
flourish.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What is important to recognize and
celebrate is that ours is a dynamic heritage that has at its core a commitment
to the common good and a recognition of the worth in each member of our
community. These are the values of the Abrahamic religions, and they are the
values of the liberal arts. We are in the business of making good neighbors,
because it is what we are called to do, it is our vocation, and it is the best
of our history.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 1.0in right 4.0in 5.0in;">I wish you all
meaningful, reflective, and rewarding observances now and always.</p>
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<div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman \(Body CS\)"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>
Housely, Donald D.: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Susquehanna
University 1858-2000: A Goodly Heritage.</i> Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna
University Press, 2007.</p>
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<div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman \(Body CS\)"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>
My rough averaging from recent factbooks.</p>
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<div id="ftn3" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman \(Body CS\)"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States</a>
and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_in_America">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_in_America</a>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Susquehanna Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745406804222245665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4022104091772967452.post-38499505517916777752022-03-22T15:34:00.000-07:002022-03-22T15:34:46.554-07:00Top Threats to Higher Ed 2022 Edition<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Top Threats to Higher
Ed 2022 Edition</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In 2019, I wrote a series of posts on the leading threats to
higher education. At that time, they were:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Constantia; mso-fareast-font-family: Constantia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Market Disturbance</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Constantia; mso-fareast-font-family: Constantia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>National Association for College Admission
Counseling (NACAC) Changes</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Constantia; mso-fareast-font-family: Constantia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Price Sensitivity</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Constantia; mso-fareast-font-family: Constantia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>International Student Decreases</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Constantia; mso-fareast-font-family: Constantia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>2026 “Demographic Cliff”</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Constantia; mso-fareast-font-family: Constantia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Poor Public Understanding of What We Do</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Constantia; mso-fareast-font-family: Constantia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Geographic Population Redistribution</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Constantia; mso-fareast-font-family: Constantia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Limited Reputation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To a surprising extent these challenges remain the same, but
the past three years have changed the relevance and impact of these issues. In
2019, I wrote:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">In the absence of war or pestilence, we know how many
18-year-olds there will be for the next 18 years, which is why we know there
will be a marked decline seven years from now. Based upon historic behavior and
trends, we also know approximately how many of them will enroll in college when
they reach that age.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The fall of 2019 presented a surprise to many in
higher education, because the anticipated number of traditional-aged students
who enrolled in college nationally was 1.7% lower than anticipated.
Pennsylvania missed the mark by 2.6%. The disruption that occurred this past
year was not only varied by region, but by institutional type. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Little did we know that pestilence was around the corner in
the form of covid-19, which has dramatically escalated that flight from higher education.
In the past two years, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/01/13/1072529477/more-than-1-million-fewer-students-are-in-college-the-lowest-enrollment-numbers-">over
a million college students</a> have stepped out of higher education. There are
a number of factors driving this exodus: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Many students who enrolled during the pandemic <a href="https://hechingerreport.org/more-students-are-dropping-out-of-college-during-covid-and-it-could-get-worse/">dropped
out</a> after a semester of unsatisfying remote and hybrid learning experiences.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Many <a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/covid-gap-years-what-to-do">students chose
to take a gap year</a> or years, hoping to enter college when things get back
to normal [Yes, I just cited <i>Teen Vogue</i>].</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Based on conversations I have had with some of
our students, they are taking advantage of the hot job market created by the “Great
Resignation.” They hope to save up some money and return to school after things
cool down.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The changes imposed upon the NACAC standards, which no
longer prohibit institutions from actively recruiting students who have
committed to another institution, have not resulted in the market turbulence
many of us anticipated. Most institutions have not been aggressive in these
efforts. I believe this is partly good sportsmanship, and partly the need to
focus on retaining applicants in the face of pandemic pressures over competing
recruitment efforts.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Following the economic downturn in 2008-2009, the <a href="The%20overall%20average%20EFC%20is%20about%20$10,000,%20with%20an%20average%20of%20about%20$6,000%20for%20students%20at%20community%20colleges%20and%20$14,000%20at%204-year%20colleges.%20Slightly%20more%20than%20half%20of%20students%20have%20an%20EFC%20of%20$2,500%20or%20less.%20Slightly%20more%20than%2010%25%20have%20an%20EFC%20greater%20than%20$25,000.">expected
family contribution</a> of middle-class families stagnated for many of years.
With inflationary pressures affecting other necessary expenses, the amount
these families had left to pay for college declined. This is why the average
out-of-pocket cost to attend many colleges and universities has declined over
the past decade. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In this chart from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Trends
in College Pricing and Student Aid 2021</i> from the College Board, the net
tuition and fees at private non-profit institutions has declined over the past sixteen
years and total cost of attendance has declined over the past six years:<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHyUTyB_rVB_sqRqpsd3wtknwgV0HejmoPYgNy7YSDiapD8SJXUpBATOpPh_aphUciiS0_pxXTfiO0MaUTzr4SmH7vOn0MHVxgE0Zk_eoZzfNWpQo7g85ZpYLnChCfps316ejNoZgryVp0VWOSNcAKcIDYo7bY0pvj3sLvZyTzB-LuJbItZsXBCCs4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="515" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHyUTyB_rVB_sqRqpsd3wtknwgV0HejmoPYgNy7YSDiapD8SJXUpBATOpPh_aphUciiS0_pxXTfiO0MaUTzr4SmH7vOn0MHVxgE0Zk_eoZzfNWpQo7g85ZpYLnChCfps316ejNoZgryVp0VWOSNcAKcIDYo7bY0pvj3sLvZyTzB-LuJbItZsXBCCs4=w431-h291" width="431" /></a></div>TF = tuition and fees<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">TFRB = tuition, fees, room, and board</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">COA = cost of attendance<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In recent years, families’ ability to pay has finally begun
to grow, but for many, their willingness to pay has not, which has put
higher-education institutions into a bidding war with financial aid. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Because most institutions have limited financial-aid
funding, these discounts are funds that are simply not collected. This is
placing new financial strains on the majority of colleges and universities as
the tuition and fees they collect fail to meet the costs to support their
educational offerings. This is the crux of the “broken business model” in
higher education. <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The decline in <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/nsr.30861">International
Student numbers</a> logically accelerated during the pandemic. There has been some
rebound this year. International graduate student enrollments increased by 13%,
but undergraduate enrollments declined another 8%. The United States has lost its
preeminence as a destination for international students. Current geopolitical aggressions
and tensions will surely continue to stoke uncertainty in those markets.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The challenges associated with the “demographic cliff,” geographic
redistribution, and limited reputation remain similar to 2019 with the
exception of the impact of so many students dropping out of the
higher-education pathway. Much of our effort in the coming years will be focused
on reclaiming this “lost generation.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One “Covid silver lining” has been a renewed awareness of
how important in-person learning is developmentally and in terms of engagement.
Millions of parents who a few years ago would have been indifferent about
whether their children completed a degree on-line or in-person, have recognized
what their students have lost due to the instructional realities of the past
two years. This is liberal education’s opportunity to assert the benefits of
learning in community.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The threats that join the list are student and employee
wellbeing and divisiveness connected to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
efforts. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We have seen dramatic challenges in mental health around the
world and across generations. The transition into independent adulthood that
accompanies leaving home and moving into an academic community has always been
a stressful time in students’ lives. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The hyper-vigilant environments college campuses have needed
to become out of public-health necessity has made them some of the safest
environments from an infectious disease perspective, but it has added to the
historic stress of the transition to adulthood in new and not yet fully
appreciated ways. We have adopted many new resources to help students to adapt
and to catch up from what they lost since the pandemic began, but this will
remain an elevated priority for years to come.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DEI issues have emerged as a leading threat and opportunity
for higher education. Across the country, we see lawmakers attempting to
dictate course content in secondary schools and higher-education institutions.
Many colleges and universities have renewed their commitments to support equity
and inclusion for their students and employees, <a href="https://www.susqu.edu/about-susquehanna/our-leadership/board-of-trustees/statement-on-ethical-and-inclusive-living/">as
did Susquehanna</a>, and many have struggled to articulate their positions.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The vast majority of the current traditional college-age
population consider DEI and gender liberation to be high priorities. This
includes not just representation, but proactive policies and practices. <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesagencycouncil/2022/03/01/gen-z-brands-need-to-prioritize-dei-and-gender-liberation/?sh=2c74f8e74abd">Gen
Zers are already making their purchasing decisions based upon the DEI practices
of companies</a>, and as they make their college selections, those institutions
that are visibly proactive in their inclusion efforts will be the winners.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is more uncertainty now than in 2019. As higher
education prepares for the future it will be more important than ever to be
mindful of the perspective and experiences of the next generation of students
so we are ready to meet the where they are, which will allow us to successfully
help them to reach their goals.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">I Stand with Ukraine</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is the 100<sup>th</sup> installment in this blog. I had
intended to create a celebratory message with some comments about what topics
evoked the most positive and negative responses, but every time I sat down to
write, I have felt obligated to address the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and
then found myself at a loss for what to say. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I had the remarkable good fortune to spend three weeks
during the summer of 1998 in Kyiv as a participant in a conducting masterclass
with the National Symphony of Ukraine led by my conducting teacher, <a href="https://www.masslive.com/entertainment/2017/05/former_springfield_symphony_mu.html">Robert
Gutter</a>, and the famed conducting pedagogue, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Meier">Gustav Meier</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It was a remarkable experience to work intensely with three
great teachers: Robert, Gustav, and that inspiring orchestra. Throughout the
masterclass, participants would alternate between the two clinicians and
between sessions with a string quintet and piano and the full orchestra. I can
still remember the feeling of entering the large rehearsal room of the Philharmonia,
their home, and being hit by a wall of sound as they roared through the finale
of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. Many of them were playing world-weary
instruments, but the sound of that orchestra was breath-taking,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They played with such fervor at every moment of each
rehearsal. When I discussed this special quality with a couple violinists, they
replied that they really knew how lucky they were every time they played and
especially every time they played together. They came up in a world where
despite their prodigious gifts, the opportunity to use them could be taken away
at any moment. They truly played as if this might be their last chance, every
single time. They possessed little, but lived most generously. They knew that
selflessness is perpetually regenerative. That was their gift to me, to all of
us.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">While we were in Kyiv, the city was embarking on a massive
public-works initiative to restore the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khreshchatyk">Khreshchatyk</a>, the main
commercial street destroyed in World War II, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Sophia_Cathedral,_Kyiv">St. Sophia
Cathedral</a> a cultural symbol of the nation. We also toured the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_Pechersk_Lavra">Lavra</a>, a monastery
complex built atop a labyrinth of caves where monks lived and prayed beginning
in the 11<sup>th</sup> century. While we were there, dozens of pilgrimage
groups came through. They prayed and sang Ukrainian Orthodox chants that had
been banned for over three generations, and yet we witnessed three generations
singing them together by memory.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For centuries, the Ukrainian people have preserved their
culture and their language against all odds. They are an exceedingly resilient
people. My hope for them is buoyed because I have seen how inextinguishable
their flame is. They will greet each day as if it might be their last, may that
never be so.</p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Susquehanna Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745406804222245665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4022104091772967452.post-42340902045903902152022-02-07T08:05:00.004-08:002022-02-07T08:05:54.599-08:00Achieve, Lead, Vote<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Achieve, Lead, Vote</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have written a number of times about the roles many of our
Founding Fathers played in establishing and cultivating higher-education
institutions, especially liberal-arts colleges. They believed that for a
democratic republic to succeed, and ideally flourish, an informed electorate
was a necessity. This was a stark contrast with the European model that
carefully limited access to a university education to the elite as a way to
centralize and protect power. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A decade before the American Revolution, John Adams shone a
light on this strategy in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Dissertation
on Canon and Feudal Law</i>:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; margin-right: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The poor people, it is true, have been
much less successful than the great. They have seldom found either leisure or
opportunity to form a union and exert their strength; ignorant as they were of
arts and letters, they have seldom been able to frame and support a regular
opposition. This, however, has been known by the great to be the temper of
mankind; and they have accordingly labored, in all ages, to wrest from the
populace, as they are contemptuously called, the knowledge of their rights and
wrongs, and the power to assert the former or redress the latter. I say RIGHTS,
for such they have, undoubtedly, antecedent to all earthly government, —
Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws -- Rights, derived
from the great Legislator of the universe.<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman \(Body CS\)"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">An educated electorate and citizenry were critical to the
functionality of a democratic state. Like many aspects of our founding, practice
fell far short of principle, and we perpetuated the sins of our fathers by
limiting who counted as citizens and who possessed suffrage. In the 235 years that
have unfolded since the <i>Constitution</i> defined whom we count and who can
vote, we have seen a number of landmark efforts of progress.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Thirteenth Amendment (1865) abolished slavery</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Fourteenth Amendment (1868) granted citizenship
to formerly enslaved people</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Fifteenth Amendment (1870) prohibited race as a
factor in voting rights</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Nineteenth Amendment (1920) granted the vote to
women</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Twenty-third Amendment (1961) extended the right
to vote for president to the residents of the District of Columbia</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Twenty-fourth Amendment (1964) prohibited poll
taxes</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Twenty-sixth Amendment (1971) expanded the
voting to those <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>18 years of age and
older</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965">Voting Rights
Act of 1965</a> is one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation
in our history. Fifty-seven years later, we see tensions building about voting
access, and many states are adopting legislation that some see as protections
against voter fraud and others see as an erosion of the progress of the past. Justifications
proffered by those who support each side of the debate include that the 2020
election was arguably the most secure in history and that record numbers of
voters participated.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One contributor to that last fact is an increase in voting
among America’s college students. The <a href="https://tufts.app.box.com/v/democracy-counts-2020">National Study of
Learning, Voting, and Engagement</a> (NSLVE) reported the 66% of college students
nationwide voted in the 2020 election, up from 50% in 2016. The turnout of the
voting-age population in 2016 was 54.8%, and in 2020 it was 62%. So, in four
years, college students went from trailing the population in voter
participation by nearly 5% to leading it by 4%.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some of that increase may reflect an increase in social and
political engagement in this generation of students, but many colleges and
universities have embraced the Founders’ commitment to fostering an enlightened
and engaged electorate through efforts like the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge,
a non-partisan program led by Civic Nation.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.susqu.edu/live/news/1356-su-honored-as-state-voting-challenge-winner">Susquehanna
University was the ALL IN most improved campus in Pennsylvania</a>. 75% of our
students voted in the 2020 election, qualifying us for ALL IN’s Gold Seal.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am grateful to the many colleagues on campus who inspired
and encouraged our students to exercise this important privilege through our “Achieve,
Lead, Vote” campaign. We didn’t tell them for whom they should vote. We stressed
the importance of being informed and participating, and I am so proud of our
students for being such engaged citizens.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Democracy is at its best when the populace is engaged, well-informed,
and fully represented.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> From John Adams: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law</i>, 1765.</span></p>
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{margin-bottom:0in;}</style></p>Susquehanna Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745406804222245665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4022104091772967452.post-664507955143727202022-01-03T14:50:00.002-08:002022-01-03T14:50:27.398-08:00Hard Jobs<span style="font-family: Palatino;">At the Intercollegiate
Athletics Forum in early December, Mark Emmert, president of the NCAA, said </span><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Being a university president is the
hardest job in America.” </span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ross Dellenger of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sports Illustrated</i> <a href="https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2021/12/08/mark-emmert-university-president-hardest-job-america-comments-sbjiaf">tweeted</a>
the quote and followed up with “One of my grandpas was a shrimp boat captain
for 40 years. The other was a roofer. I’ll just leave it there.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thus began a bad week
for Mr. Emmert as the quote made the rounds of most news media and became
fodder for dozens of opinion pieces.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Millions of people do
harder work every day, and most them are sadly under-rewarded for it. Being a
university president isn’t the hardest job I have had. Serving as a custodian
in a hospital (including drain-cleaning and biohazard collection) and clearing
brush come to mind as being harder work. Both were important, and I had the rare
luxury of knowing that neither was a lifetime assignment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Being a university
president isn’t even the mostly intellectually taxing job I have had.
Conducting an opera or an oratorio (hearing the mental sound of all the
components of the written page just before they happen, signaling what the players
and singers need to see to make it happen while concurrently listening in the
present and making adjustments) is the highest mental peak I have climbed, and
I am sure there are many even more intellectually arduous jobs, but few as satisfying
and frustrating at the same time.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What I think Dr.
Emmert (who was president of the University of Washington and chancellor of
LSU) meant, and probably wished he had said, is that the role of university
president is one of the most complex jobs. This is one of the features that
makes it so interesting and rewarding.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No two days are
alike. Each day is dominated by breaking stories much like the editorial desk
of a metropolitan newspaper, except most of these stories are serial novels
taking turns in the spotlight.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The focus of our work
is and always should be the development of our students in and out of the classroom
and laboratory, which we do in part by supporting what Thomas Jefferson called an
“academical village.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mr. Jefferson was
referring to the Rotunda and Pavilions that form the architectural core of UVA,
but the campuses of residential universities like Susquehanna are communities
in every sense. Presidents become the keepers of campus sagas. We are charged
with the amorphous duty of curating, cultivating, and sustaining our campus stories
to shape culture and affinity, but we also have defined logistical
responsibilities. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In addition to
offering over 100 majors and minors from over 25 academic departments. Susquehanna
sponsors a wide range of research and creative work by faculty and students. We
maintain labs, studios, field stations, and we have a great bespoke academic
library to support all of these programs. We have a career development office
and an academic support operation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We run a small city.
Our campus has just over 90 buildings. We house over 2,000 students each
semester. Dining Services prepares a little more than one million meals each
year (really). We run a theatre and a regionally significant art gallery. We
produce scores of concerts and theatrical productions. We offer 23
intercollegiate athletic teams that compete publicly, as do a number of our
nationally ranked club teams. We have the most powerful campus radio station in
Pennsylvania. We develop and maintain all of that programming and infrastructure.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The largest component
of our budget is financial aid. After scholarships and grants are applied, on
average, our students pay a fraction of our tuition. Therefore, we also offer engagement
opportunities and communication with about 20,000 alumni, and we run a grants
office and a highly professionalized fundraising operation to make it financially
possible for our students to benefit from an SU education. We also run a
philanthropic foundation in the form of our endowment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No president has
expertise across this range of endeavors, but we are responsible for them. Being
literate enough and balancing the many incumbent priorities in such a
multifaceted organization is where the complexity lies. This is why teamwork is
so important. It is a hallmark skill developed as part of a liberal arts
education, and it is in full display on our campuses. Expertise matters, and we
are fortunate to have many talented colleagues with diverse gifts and
experiences to collectively guide our institutions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Being a university
president isn’t the hardest job, but it may be the most interesting, and it is
definitely the most rewarding.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
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