How poignant to be writing my last End of Year Newsletter as Associate Vice Chancellor for the Arts + Design, a missive that also doubles as an “End of Term” reflection. It is moving for me to be concluding this role just as our world is opening up to life post-vaccine.

Perhaps all of us have heard too many times that this was “a year like no other.” It was indeed a “surreal” year and a year to which many are happily bidding good riddance.  Of course, it was also a year that propelled a good deal of reflection about what it means to be healthy, what it means to be just, and w

What does it mean to share an “end of year” newsletter while in the midst of so many transformations, breakdowns, breakthroughs, and new beginnings?