Messages From Leadership

As you are no doubt aware, the University Planning Framework for 2020–2021 has been hard at work planning for fall logistics, digital and online strategies, financial solutions and more.

The recent events we’ve experienced as a community—the deaths of so many Black Americans at the hands of those who are sworn to serve and protect us—are disturbing and intolerable and call upon each one of us to reach deep down and ask, what more can I do? 

Tonight we ask that we all extend our support for a few more minutes to commemorate the more than 100,000 victims of the coronavirus in the United States, as well as the thousands more people whose lives are lost every year to racial violence.

One month ago, I announced the University of Denver’s plans to reopen with face-to-face classes when we begin our fall term in mid-September (Sturm College of Law in mid-August), even if delivery had to be modified in some way.