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President Brian W. Casey and Provost Lesleigh Cushing share updates and actions regarding the impact of recent executive orders on the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø community.

Updates for the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø campus community as you return for the second semester of the 2024–25 academic year.

President Brian W. Casey has accepted the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Task Force on Institutional Voice's recommendation to respond to national or global events by promoting venues for people to come together to explore, question, and reflect upon them.

Third-Century Plan updates regarding faculty endowed chairs.

Third-Century Plan updates regarding Bernstein Hall, Peter’s Glen, Olin Hall, and 18–22 Utica Street.

Over the past two weeks, the Madison County Health Department has seen an increase in reports of gastrointestinal illness throughout the county.

As part of our continuous effort to be good stewards of campus, and in maintenance of ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø's landscape and tree canopy, we will be removing several willow trees from Willow Path this week. Our campus arborist has helped to determine which trees to remove based on failing health and safety hazard concerns.

Last night at about 10 p.m., the Campus Safety Department was alerted to anonymous posters, some of which could be read as antisemitic, taped on exterior doors and interior bulletin boards in buildings on the residential and academic quadrangles. These were removed, as ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø policy strictly prohibits posters without a sponsoring organization. 

We join with many of our peers in higher education, as well as international organizations, in a full and clear condemnation of these senseless and brutal killings.

I write to update the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø community on steps the University is taking, and has already taken, as we continue our work to enroll talented students from a wide pool of diverse applicants in an admission landscape clearly altered by the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to prohibit race-based affirmative action in student admissions.