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Monday Morning Message 10.24.2016
"[I]t's our game; that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game; it has the snap, go, fling of the American atmosphere; it belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly as our Constitution's laws; is just as important in the sum total of our historic life."
- Walt Whitman
"Nothing in our daily life offers more of the comfort of continuity, the generational connection of belonging to a vast and complicated American family, the powerful sense of home, the freedom from time's constraints, and the great gift of accumulated memory than does our National Pastime."
- Ken Burns
Monday Morning Message 10.17.2016
On October 31,1963 while on a routine beat through downtown Cleveland, Detective Martin McFadden noticed three men
Monday Morning Message 10.10.2016
Last week I wrote about Kenneth Ricci '86 receiving the Cleveland- Marshall Distinguished Alumni Award.This morning I want to highlight another distinguished alumnus who also was honored at the recent CSU Distinguished Alumni Awards ceremony - Judge Annette Butler '70. Judge Annette Garner Butler received th
Monday Morning Message 9.26.2016
Tonight at 9pm is the first Presidential Debate. This Presidential Super Bowl is expected to top the previous debate audience record of 80.6 million TV viewers set in 1980 for the debate between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. Fifty-six years ago today, Senator John F.
Monday Morning Message 9.19.2016
I rarely will write about personal matters in this Monday Morning Message, but because of something special that happened this past weekend, I want to tell a story about my parents.
Monday Morning Message 9.12.2016
“The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded.” -Judge Learned Hand; Address at “I am an American” Day, Central Park, New York, May 21, 1944
Monday Morning Message 9.6.2016
When a holiday falls on Monday, I’ll send my message on Tuesday morning. Since Monday was Labor Day, this message is about the new world of labor and work.
When our son, Jason, graduated from college, we asked him the question many parents ask their children, “what do you want to do with your life?” Jason said something I never would have thought to say to my parents. He said “Mom, Dad – what I want to do hasn’t been invented yet.”
Monday Morning Message 8.29.2016
Good Morning. During orientation week for our first year class, we featured a new session on “The Future of Cleveland.” Why? Because our future is tied to Cleveland’s future. While we are proud to attract students from throughout the world, many of our graduates choose to practice in Northeast Ohio, and every student benefits from our varied engaged learning opportunities in our community.
Monday Morning Message 8.22.2016
Good Morning. First and foremost, thank you for the opportunity to serve as Interim Dean. It’s an honor and a privilege.
Every Monday Morning, I will share some thoughts, and this Wednesday we will launch our new bi-weekly (every 2 weeks) e-newsletter. We’ll highlight the great work of our students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends. And we’ll reflect not only on what we do but also on why it’s so important.
In June, the Cleveland Cavaliers ended Cleveland’s 52-year, 146 season professional sports championship drought by becoming the first professional basketball team to ever rally from a 3-1 deficit in the NBA Finals.