Checking In With Chancellor May Content

Checking In With Chancellor May: Our Transfer Student Success

Cody Kitaura — April 19, 2024 - 10:40am

To the ��TV Community:

Today, thousands of future Aggies will open their email to the exciting news they have been accepted as transfers at ��TV. They join our vibrant community of almost 8,000 transfer students and will continue their path toward an undergraduate degree in a community eager to welcome them.

Checking In With Chancellor May: Celebrating Art and Innovation

Cody Kitaura — March 22, 2024 - 10:33am

To the ��TV Community:

��TV’ commitment to art reinforces the vital role of liberal arts in education — one that enhances our understanding of the world around us, enlightens us and prompts us to seek social justice. These skills are critical, even for students who don’t plan to pursue a career in the arts or humanities.

Checking In With Chancellor May: Appreciating Our World-Class Faculty

Cody Kitaura — February 16, 2024 - 10:36am

To the ��TV community:

With the winter quarter racing toward midterms, our libraries, labs and coffee shops are buzzing with students digging deep into their courses. Researchers are focused in their offices and labs, methodically searching for the next breakthrough that will propel their work forward.

Checking In With Chancellor May: A Vital Source of Innovation

Cody Kitaura — January 19, 2024 - 10:41am

To the ��TV community:

Happy New Year! I hope you had a restful break and are making a smooth transition to the winter quarter.

The mission of ��TV to excel in research, teaching and service continues to advance in 2024. Our graduate and professional students are key to making this possible. Today I want to shine a light on those students.

Checking In With Chancellor May: A Highlight Reel of 2023

Cody Kitaura — December 15, 2023 - 1:32pm

To the ��TV Community:

Today marks the last day of fall quarter, and I’m looking forward to the holiday season and ringing in 2024. Our students had a busy finals week, and once again, I was happy to serve them a free meal at our annual Moonlight Breakfast. I value this chance to offer a study break and lend support and nourishment during a traditionally stressful time.

Checking In With Chancellor May: Standing On Our Principles

Cody Kitaura — November 17, 2023 - 11:08am

To the ��TV Community:

“We affirm the dignity inherent in each of us.”

This is the first sentence of ��TV’ Principles of Community. As our statement of purpose, it is just as relevant as when it was signed in 1990. As we endure local and global conflict, these principles set the standard that every one of us deserves respect and civility.

Checking In With Chancellor May: Standing With You

Cody Kitaura — October 20, 2023 - 12:44pm

To the ��TV Community:

Checking In With Chancellor May: Freedom of Expression

Cody Kitaura — September 15, 2023 - 2:55pm

To the ��TV Community:

With the new academic year starting, I want to focus on a topic that is increasingly at the forefront of campus life: freedom of expression. It’s one of our university’s core values and vital to our higher education mission. The right to express our opinions and points of view is both an opportunity and a challenge.

Checking In With Chancellor May: Sustainability

Cody Kitaura — August 18, 2023 - 5:27pm

To the ��TV Community:

As a top-tier research institution, we know it is our duty to bring our expertise to bear on the world’s most serious problems. And there is no global issue more pressing than climate change. We are experiencing significant impacts in the form of extreme weather, such as extended periods of drought, sea level rise and species extinction.

Checking In With Chancellor May: Student Success

Dave Jones — June 09, 2023 - 1:22pm

To the ��TV Community:

You’ve heard me say it before: Commencement season is one of my favorite times of the year. Our newest graduates will soon embark on their next journeys, and, with their degrees from ��TV, they are poised to find great success in the workforce and graduate school.

Nothing beats seeing our students go off to shape a better tomorrow.