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Students with 3.0 and higher high school GPA now qualify for new scholarships

Emporia State’s spring graduate and undergraduate Class of 2021 will celebrate commencement with outdoor, in-person ceremonies, university officials announced today.

Four finalists for Emporia State’s position of provost and vice president for academic affairs will visit campus during the next two weeks.

Universities are complex organizations that exist to better our communities, state, nation and world by educating students to achieve their dreams and by conducting research that enhances others’ quality of life and the economic prosperity of their regions.

Over the past week, I have given much thought to the attack on the U.S. Capitol, and the subsequent fallout that we have all witnessed. We are all reeling, and each day brings new information and imagery more troubling than the day before. Images of the Confederate flag in our capitol building, our country’s symbol of freedom and democracy, haunt me.

Emporia State graduates — from spring, summer and fall 2020 — will be honored in two separate virtual ceremonies this week.

Last month, I shared with you that Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. David Cordle had announced his retirement to the ESU community. Today, we formally launch our search.

While votes are still being counted today, we find ourselves waiting for our next president to be declared. Although this campaign and the election results show a divided country, we all have much in common. We all want a bright future for our country. We all have the same hope for progress that will create a better world for our children and grandchildren.

As we move through the final days before the 2020 general election on Tuesday, many of you, like me, may feel inundated with political advertisements. No matter which candidates you support at the federal, state and local levels, the 2020 election seems to engender more divisiveness than I can recall in past elections. We cannot seem to escape it.

Today I am writing to tell you that Dr. David P. Cordle, provost and vice president for academic affairs, has announced his retirement at the end of the 2020-21 academic year.