From my family to each of yours, we want to extend warm wishes for a joyous and restorative Thanksgiving celebration.
On behalf of the entire Howard University family, I again want to express my deepest gratitude to our veterans and their families for their dedication and sacrifice.
Indigenous Peoples Day bestows upon us opportunities to learn, reflect, and engage with the profound contributions of Indigenous communities throughout history.
As we and other institutions of higher education around the country prepare to celebrate the beauty of homecoming season on our campuses, I ask that you join me in extending heartfelt prayers to the Morgan State University community.
Our tradition of excellence, leadership and service remains steadfast and our legacy, leadership, and future trajectory will always transcend a momentary ranking. We will continue to carry out our work in a manner that we believe keeps Howard University rising to its maximum strength – now and in the years to come.
Howard—we have the imagination, the fortitude, the brilliance, and the confidence. Let us journey together to our newest, boldest horizons yet. I charge this audience to focus on excellence, to embrace and uphold our University’s value of truth and service, to build and foster our sense of community, and to not let barriers stand in our way. We need you at maximum strength.
I want to underscore just how much we appreciate every person who has dedicated their labor in service to Howard University. Thank you – we simply could not be who we are without your treasured service.
As we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, it is especially disheartening that we also must grieve another racist mass shooting, this time in Jacksonville, Florida.
Dean Phylicia Rashad of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts will be stepping down as dean at the end of her term following the 2023-2024 academic year.
Sandra Edmonds Crewe, PhD, dean of the School of Social Work, will depart the position at the culmination of the 2023-2024 academic year. The University will launch a national decanal search for the School of Social Work imminently.
Gracie Lawson-Borders, PhD, dean of the Cathy Hughes School of Communications (CHSOC), will depart the position at the culmination of the 2023-2024 academic year. The University will promptly launch a national decanal search for the CHSOC.
Even as we celebrate America’s freedom, we must examine the contradictions between the principles we hold dear, and the realities still experienced by far too many. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said 58 years ago today, “If America is to remain a first-class nation, she can no longer have second-class citizens.”
