We came out of Denver, the Mile High City, at 5,280 feet above sea level, where the air is thin and the light falls clean and hard off the Front Range in a way that makes everything look slightly more permanent than it is.

This spring I received two invitations that turned out to be about the same question. The first was to write for this graduation issue of the Faculty Newsletter.

The May Institute Faculty Meeting traditionally mixes business and pleasure. This May, our business included a report on our annual elections for faculty governance by Chair of the Committee on Nominations (CoN) and former Chair of the Faculty Rick Danheiser.