To Our Case Western Reserve University Community,
Happy New Year and welcome back to campus for our spring 2024 semester. Today, we return to our work advancing research, innovation and learning here at CWRU.
We also can use this new beginning as an opportunity to consider how each of us can uphold our primary responsibility as citizens of the world: to leave things better than we found them. And we can start by being a part of positive change here on campus.
This semester, Provost Joy Ward will gather faculty members to plan discussions on how to engage in civil discourse. Our goal is to make CWRU an exemplar for open-mindedness, listening and critical thinking. Attend one of these discussions and learn how to apply those strategies to real-world issues.
This November, the American people will elect our next president. Despite deep political divisions, the fact remains that the health of our democracy improves when more voters engage in our elections. Visit our Center for Civic Engagement and Learning to see how you can be a part of efforts to register and educate voters on campus.
Every day, the university aspires to be an inclusive space where diversity and excellence are not mutually exclusive and where we work to improve the lives of all people. Visit the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusive Engagement to learn more about how you can support our community efforts to foster a welcoming and inclusive campus environment.
These are challenging, but not impossible, times. Our purpose is to educate, discover, invent and cure. Working as individuals and in partnership, we can meet these goals while we promote peace, eliminate inequities, reduce our impact on the planet, and, as Martin Luther King Jr., directed, “Make a career of humanity.”
I wish all of you success this semester and in the year ahead.
Sincerely,
Eric W. Kaler
President