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It is with great excitement that I welcome our new Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Mary Clark who will join us tomorrow for her first day at the Â鶹Çø!

The Â鶹Çø is working creatively to ensure we will have options for international students to stay compliant with their immigration requirements under a variety of scenarios that might come about in the fall.

In the spirit ofÌýcongratulationsÌýand with the utmost gratitude, I would like to announce that, on October 9, 2020, Don Harris will retire as the Â鶹Çø’s vice chancellor of information technology & chief information officer (VCIT & CIO).

Tomorrow, June 19—Juneteenth—marks the day in 1865 when enslaved Texans first learned about President Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, which announced the end of slavery in the United States.

As you may be aware, the U.S. Department of Education has issued final regulations that put into place new legally binding requirements that will impact the way DU and all universities that receive federal funding manage and report cases of sexual assault.

Congratulations for all you have achieved during the spring 2020 term, which has been one of the most challenging periods we’ve ever experienced on our campus and throughout the country and world.

There are moments in an organization’s trajectory when you understand the gravity of the situation and you know you are at a critical moment. This is one of those moments and this is a message that is so difficult to write and even harder to share

As you are no doubt aware, the University Planning Framework for 2020–2021 has been hard at work planning for fall logistics, digital and online strategies, financial solutions and more.

The recent events we’ve experienced as a community—the deaths of so many Black Americans at the hands of those who are sworn to serve and protect us—are disturbing and intolerable and call upon each one of us to reach deep down and ask, what more can I do?Ìý