![]() ![]() Thank you to our students who have leaned into hard conversations, taken on challenging assignments and more to grow as citizens of this world at this time. We are all “in process” and cannot lead others in a journey we have not taken ourselves. We cannot simply say to UNCW leadership, “Fix this!” without doing the self-work needed on our end as well. But it is our belief that it is harder to look in the mirror than it is to point the finger. To some, such efforts may sound passive or insufficient. Thank you for continuing to put trust in us to make your efforts worth it.Īs department chair, I also say, thank you to the COM faculty who have engaged in formal and informal professional development efforts including workshops, conferences, presentations, joining book groups and more. ![]() ![]() We are especially thankful to those COM alumni who have formally joined in through alumni chapters and other groups to help move conversations and tangible changes forward. And thanks most to those who have also partnered on solutions and making connections. We need your expressions of what could be and what needs to be. Thank you to those who have been vocal advocates of change at and for UNCW and COM Studies. We know that the disruption has been hard on you. Thank you to the staff who have come in as essential workers and kept buildings safe and clean during COVID. We want to respond by saying, “Thank you.” At the national level there is clearly work to do.īut there is an old saying that “all politics is local.” And we can take that all the way down to “it starts with me.” Months into a very tough period in our nation’s history, our department continues to do the work we seek to do and so does UNCW. We are also confronting what it means to live in a country where political discourse, social media and traditional media contributed to a failed insurrection. Our country and our region continue to wrestle with the many challenges brought on by demonstrations supporting Black Lives Matter and other calls for social justice. ![]()
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