Chancellor’s Communications

Dear Fellow Antiochians, Today our University and our nation observe Veterans Day, honoring the many women and men who have served and continue to serve in our armed forces. It…

Dear Antiochians, On Tuesday, our nation held its 60th presidential election. Many of us voted in the election, and many of us got involved in other ways, too: as poll…

As you may know, Project 2025 is an expansive roadmap for the far right to remake our country’s political system so that we have fewer civil liberties, fewer protections for…

It has been almost eight months since Israel launched its full-scale invasion of the Gaza Strip in response to the Hamas-led attack of October 7. In the intervening months, tens…

On the evening of November 4, 2008, we all watched as the U.S. elected its first Black President. As I watched the television images of Barack Obama and his young…

I am sure that by now, you have heard about the war in Israel and Palestine. On Saturday, Palestinian militant groups led by Hamas launched thousands of rockets into Israel…

We are coming up on the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran and the civil rights protests that it kicked off. It is a fitting time…

Once again I write to you in the aftermath of an act of unspeakable violence by a domestic terrorist and self-avowed White supremacist. On Saturday, a man with an assault…

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to outlaw any consideration of race in university admissions decisions. The decision is based on the notion that the Equal Protection Clause of the…

The month of June is celebrated across the world as Pride Month, a time for all of us who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and our allies…

I know many of you are watching with alarm as state legislatures around the country are taking aim at higher education with unprecedented attacks on academic freedom and freedom of…