2020 held our feet to the fire, asking us to create practices that can resist histories of white supremacy and white privilege, dismantle structural inequities among different ranks at the university, and address the needs around us. As members of a research and educational community, we need to be more intentional, more vulnerable, more self-aware, more willing to take risks, and far braver than we often are. We welcome you to join us in the coming year as we strive to be humble, curious, responsive, and supportive. We know that you and we do our best work—as artists, researchers, scholars, and leaders—by creating beautifully diverse, warmly inclusive, and rigorously equitable creative and intellectual spaces for collaboration.
