CLAS community,

As we approach the end of the semester, we will celebrate another cohort of CLAS graduates in our spring commencement ceremonies, and their achievements are as wide-ranging as their areas of study.

Your role, whether in the classroom, in your research and creative work, or in the support you provide to students each day, is essential to helping our student reach this moment and walk across the commencement stage. 

We are proud to share some of the many accomplishments you have earned in this newsletter, and you can watch for even more in next month's. I hope that each of you takes the time to rest and recharge this summer and look forward to coming back to welcome our next class of students starting their journey here in CLAS.

As we look to the future, we are focused on advancing excellence in CLAS. Our next strategic planning process will begin this summer, commence in earnest in fall 2026, and we look forward to engaging you in that process.

Thank you for being a fantastic group of scholars, teachers, and colleagues. I couldn't ask for a better group of people to do this work with.

Go Hawks!

Sara Sanders, MSW, PhD
Dean
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences