欢迎来到2021年春季学期

戴维森总统的口信

1月. 27, 2021

欢迎回来，路行者们!

I like to begin each semester by welcoming students, 教职员工到校园, and despite the current challenges we are facing with this lingering pandemic, 这个学期也不例外. Whether you will be coming to campus each week or teaching, 远程工作或学习, let me remind you that each new semester and new year marks a fresh start and another opportunity to reflect back, look forward and build a better future for ourselves, 皇冠博彩的家庭和皇冠博彩的社区.

We have turned the calendar on one of the most challenging years in our lifetimes. Although the pandemic continues to have a tremendous effect on our daily routines, there is light at the end of the tunnel. The promise of the vaccine combined with the demonstrated resilience of our 密歇根州立大学丹佛 community gives me so much hope and optimism for the year ahead. We have proved that even in the face of epic and historic challenges, when we come together as a supportive and mission-driven community, 皇冠博彩可以完成很多事情:

• 4人以上,000 Roadrunners completed their degrees under extraordinary circumstances last year, 包括 这所大学第10万名毕业生 历史.
• Before the pandemic hit, our 移民服务 Program celebrated its 30th anniversary.
• 我仍然对皇冠博彩的学生感到敬畏, faculty and staff rose to the occasion and pivoted – a word I know everyone is content to leave behind in 2021 – to remote learning. Our number of 2020 graduates speaks for itself, and our faculty completed more than 15,000 hours of training while our staff found 虚拟支持学生的新方法.
• Members of the 密歇根州立大学丹佛 community also combated Covid directly. 一些人利用校园资源 3D-print personal protective equipment，而其他人则在缝制口罩. 学生担任 护士 当 实验室技术人员. Staff at the Auraria 健康中心 worked with government officials to keep the community safe. 一名密歇根州立大学丹佛分校的校友领导了美国.S. 陆军应对疫情.
• 密歇根州立大学丹佛 played an important role in the 2020年的人口普查, helping engage Coloradans who are traditionally hard to count, 比如在农村社区, housing-insecure people and immigrant communities.
• Amid a historic racial-justice movement, 密歇根州立大学丹佛 committed to being an anti-racist university, pledging to develop and adopt a Universitywide plan for anti-racist initiatives, such as bringing more diversity to our faculty and staff and further investing in existing work being done by our faculty and staff. 皇冠博彩强调了 students who led peaceful protests for racial justice, while our 校董会 established a Sustainable Racial Justice Committee and issued an 反种族主义的决议.
• 秋天，皇冠博彩测量了 密歇根州立大学丹佛分校的经济影响 at $703.4 million annually on the local and state economies.
• 大学鼓励独特 voter-registration and -turnout efforts among our students, who historically have voted at some of the highest rates in the nation. A Roadrunner被选入美国.S. 国会 第一次.
• To help our community during a recession with staggering job losses, 密歇根州立大学丹佛 推出了一个虚拟技能实验室 with free curated trainings in growth industries. Close to 1,000 people have completed about 7,500 labs to date.
• The board approved 密歇根州立大学丹佛’s 2030 Strategic Plan last month, the culmination of 18 months of work. Our vision is to be a nationally recognized leader for social mobility, and the Strategic Plan is our guiding framework.

当走鹃, 2020年皇冠博彩经历了很多, and we should each pause to reflect on how much we have learned. 社区和感恩的教训, 自我照顾和同情心, perseverance and agility will continue to serve us in our personal and our professional lives well beyond the current crisis.

期待, 我是一个lso hopeful more of you will be on campus later this spring, as we created 50 on-campus accelerated spring courses that begin in March in addition to those in-person classes that began last week. I will be participating in a town hall in February to talk more about vaccines and campus operations with Steve Monaco, director of the 奥瑞瑞亚的健康中心, 和Larry Sampler, 行政副总裁, Finance and 设施 and chief operating officer, 所以更多的细节将会出现.

As we begin 2021, please remain diligent and remember to follow the 健康的协议 we have established, 包括 your daily health assessment. And stay tuned for more information about how the Auraria Campus will soon serve as a Point of Dispensing (POD) for the Covid-19 vaccine. Getting everyone vaccinated is the key to getting past this epic health crisis and back on campus full-time.

Thank you again for all that you have done over the past year to keep our community safe and our mission on track. I am continually inspired by the dedication and compassion of the Roadrunner community, and I remain honored to serve as your president.

真诚地,

珍妮·戴维森博士.D.

丹佛州立大学校长