Dear Faculty and Staff,

I am writing this email without Dr. Julie Wren’s knowledge or consent, because she deserves our deepest gratitude and recognition for five years of leadership and toil that has led us to this week’s successful accreditation site visit. Good leader that she is, Julie is giving credit for this success to all of you. She, for example, crafted the note below for my signature.  I, too, am fully aware of every one of your contributions to this monumental task and am deeply grateful.

Five-plus years is a long time to stay the course when there are daily, sometimes hourly, challenges that could easily knock one off course. Julie, undaunted, never submitted to the challenges. We will never know whether or not we would have succeeded without her leadership. I submit, however, that If there is ever a need for an example of the importance of academic leadership, Julie is exemplar.

Nice work, Julie! On behalf of all of us, please accept A BIG THANK YOU!

Randy

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