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Communications from the Chair

Looking Back

Mary C. Fuller

This is my final column as chair, and these are typically a time for taking stock. Our institution, like most of American higher education and like many of the entities involved in American research, has entered a time of stark challenges. Once again, at a time when we may find ourselves checking multiple external news sources multiple times each day to understand what’s happening and try to anticipate what might come next – this is a challenging moment to write. ... The rest of this and other communications can be found on the Communications from the Chair page.

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