To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff
<everybody@illinois.edu>
From: "Chancellor Richard Herman" <chancellor@illinois.edu>
Reply-To: chancellor@illinois.edu
Subject: MASSMAIL - Letter to Faculty and Staff
<![CDATA[Dear Campus Community:
In just eight short weeks more than 41,000 students will return to the
Urbana-Champaign campus. Indeed, during summer orientation we've watched
many of the incoming class as they and their families eagerly explore the
campus. Our students come here because we are the preeminent institution
of public higher education in Illinois today as we have been for the past
142 years. Young women and men come here to receive a first-rate education
that will enable them to be the next generation of leaders. People of
Illinois rely on us to fulfill this weighty responsibility and we must be
prepared to do so. With that in mind, it is important that we focus our
energies in preparation for the first day of classes on August 24, just as
our students and their families will.
The University and its admissions process has been the subject of intense
scrutiny and media coverage. Many legitimate questions are being asked
about a long-existing admissions process. I and others are intending to
cooperate fully with Gov. Pat Quinn's Admissions Review Commission and
implement expeditiously all appropriate measures to improve our admissions
process. Yet, because the University is and always has been larger than
any individuals, I have all the confidence it will get through this moment
and emerge stronger than ever.
I ask you to continue to do the great job that you have always done in
making Illinois one of the very best public, land grant universities in
the country. We must continue to conduct campus business. The future of
Illinois' sons and daughters depends on it.
Thank you,
Richard Herman
Chancellor
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