Celebrating Spring and Looking Ahead
Dear Colleagues,
The close of the spring semester brings the recurrence of joyous celebrations for our campus community. The opportunity to gather with friends, family, and colleagues to honor the achievements of students, staff, and faculty at UNL is especially welcome this year.
The celebration of promotion and tenure and recognitions of prestigious honors and awards are edifying reminders that our essential purpose in higher education is to further realize the enormous potential that resides within each of us.
Our graduating students who gather at commencement ceremonies are an embodiment of our shared faith in and commitment to an enterprise that exists to spur, support, and nurture human ingenuity and creativity. It remains a privilege to work alongside all of you in this noble calling. I am particularly grateful for the spirit of curiosity and the embrace of boundless discovery and critical questioning that animates the heart of our campus community.
As we head into the summer months, I encourage you to remain engaged with the university and to maintain your awareness of the multidimensional challenges that beset higher education today. We have a shared responsibility to be informed and prepared for the future – not just for ourselves, but for our students as well.
I wish you a successful end of the semester and a productive summer.
Warm regards,
Mark Button
Interim Executive Vice Chancellor
and Chief Academic Officer
EVC Office