Message from the Dean – College Guidance on Fall Return to On-site/Hybrid Work
To: Full- and Part-Time Staff in the College of the Liberal Artscc: Deans and Department HeadsFrom: Dean Clarence Lang Date: May 27, 2021 Dear Colleagues, I hope this message finds you well and that you have had an opportunity to catch your breath since the end of the spring semester. As you are aware, Penn State has […]
Message from Dean Lang
To: Liberal Arts Faculty, Staff, and StudentsFrom: Dean Clarence Lang Date: May 10, 2021 Dear Students and Colleagues: This final message of the academic year is bittersweet. Students, parents, faculty, staff, and alumni gathered for our College’s spring commencement yesterday, and despite the limits on the number of guests, and the cold and rain, the enthusiasm and pride that […]
Message from the Dean – Resources RE: Vaccine Availability
To: Liberal Arts Faculty, Staff, Graduate Students, and Post DocsFrom: Clarence LangDate: April 9, 2021 Dear Liberal Arts Colleagues: I have received the following helpful information re: local COVID vaccinations, which I received from a source outside our College. This is not an official University communication, but I am sharing it as a useful compendium […]
Message from the Dean
To: Liberal Arts Faculty, Staff, Post Docs, and Graduate StudentsFrom: Clarence LangDate: April 6, 2021 Dear Colleagues: Tomorrow (April 7), the College of the Liberal Arts will again observe the University’s scheduled Wellness Day. With this being the last one of the semester, it is important that you take advantage of it. We have been […]
Message from the Dean
To: Members of the Liberal Arts Community From: Clarence Lang Date: March 22, 2021 Colleagues, Once again, our nation has been rocked by news of a shocking act of racialized violence – this time in Atlanta, where a gunman took the lives of eight people, including six women of Asian descent. Whatever the assailant’s motivations, this incident adds to rising […]
Message from the Dean to the Liberal Arts Community
To: Liberal Arts Faculty, Staff, Graduate Students, and Post-Docs From: Clarence Lang Date: March 9, 2021 Dear Colleagues: I hope that you are doing well as we embark on the second half of the spring semester. I realize that I’m writing to you at a point during a “normal” year that would mark the start of spring break. I am […]
Message from the Dean re: Penn State Zoom-bombing Incidents
To: Liberal Arts Faculty, Staff, Graduate Students, and Post DocsFrom: Clarence Lang Date: February 22, 2021 Dear Colleagues, By now, you are starkly aware of the number of “Zoom-bombing” incidents that have occurred in our Penn State community these past few weeks. Like many of you, I am disturbed not only by the targeting of black people and […]
Message from Dean Lang
To: Liberal Arts Faculty, Staff, Graduate Students and Post DocsFrom: Clarence LangDate: February 8, 2021 Dear Colleagues: I hope this message finds you well. As you were reminded in a memo sent last week, our University is sponsoring the first of three scheduled Wellness Days tomorrow. To enjoy the full benefits of Tuesday’s Wellness […]
Message from Dean Lang
To: Liberal Arts Faculty, Staff, Graduate Students, and Post DocsFrom: Clarence LangDate: January 19, 2021 Dear Colleagues: Welcome back. I hope you had a restful break and were able to make the most of yesterday’s federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. As we reflect on the state of national affairs, there is no sugarcoating […]
Message from Dean Lang
Date: January 8, 2021 To: Liberal Arts Faculty, Staff, Graduate Students, and Post DocsFrom: Clarence Lang Dear Colleagues: Democracies are fragile systems of checks and balances. To paraphrase our own Michael Berkman and Christopher Beem in a statement they penned earlier this week, it is a system that exists as a way for people to disagree and yet […]