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Dear Mason School Students:
I think it is fair to say that we have all found the events of last week unsettling and unfortunate for the College and everyone involved. Regardless of your vantage point and personal perspective or your own thoughts about Gene Nichol’s presidency, transitions of this sort are painful at best and totally disruptive at worst.
We will likely never know all of the details behind this decision. Regardless, there is strong and broad-based support for the progress that has been made through the Gateway Initiative and through President Nichol’s active efforts to bring greater diversity to the College’s faculty, administration, and student body. On Friday I spoke personally with Interim President Taylor Reveley. He too is fully committed to the goals of economic and cultural diversity and our role as a university with a global presence. We will not—we cannot—lose our momentum or our focus on the many things that we must do to advance both our business school and our college.
I imagine that there are many unanswered questions on your minds about what we all experienced last week. That is a normal reaction for all of us, and I encourage you to reach out to your specific faculty members and our program leaders. This is not to presume that they have all of the answers; indeed, most have questions of their own, but they are sound thinkers and caring people and these are exactly the kind of conversations that we should be having at a time like this. Please know that I, too, am happy to talk or meet individually or with groups of our students.
Regards,
Larry Pulley
Dean, Mason School of Business
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Receiving this email has made me feel ten times better.
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