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Greetings Bronco Alumni, Donors, and Parents!
We jump started this academic year with a busy fall quarter. Most notably, Julie Sullivan was inaugurated as Santa Clara University’s 30th president – the first woman and layperson to hold the position. As President Sullivan settles into her new role, you can expect the campus to engage in a much-needed strategic planning process that will guide our University’s priorities over the next decade.
We also hosted a number of guests on campus, including Sinatra Artist-in-Residence Mark Duplass and renowned writer and scholar Reza Aslan ’95 (Religious Studies), which you can read more about below.
Now that we have entered a less shut-down stage of the COVID pandemic, I have been working with CAS colleagues on some strategic planning of our own. Drawing on many conversations in my first two years as Dean, I have gathered together our collective aspirations and ideas, first into a vision statement, and second, a set of goals and priorities that support the vision by emphasizing improvements in our academic work environment. I believe that, at this moment in our history, fostering a more supportive College and campus will best spark the energies of our colleagues and students. Please, take some time to explore the new vision and goals we are working towards in the College.
I would also like to share with you a piece I wrote with my four AJCU arts and sciences dean colleagues from the 2020 cohort. It offers a little bit of perspective on being an arts and sciences dean at a Jesuit university today.
Happy New Year!
Daniel Press
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Santa Clara University
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