On March 1, 2020, I was named dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, after serving a year as interim dean. I had no idea how radically the world would shift before the month was even over, and how my job since then would be dominated by responding to the coronavirus and its near- and long-term effects on our College community.
It has been inspiring to see the way our faculty and staff rose to the crisis and went the extra mile for our students over these past 13 months. We are discovering that some of the innovations and technological changes that were adapted out of necessity are useful investments for the Carolina of tomorrow.
