Goodbyes Are Never Easy...
Dear CC Community,
I want to share that I am starting a new position as Associate Dean of Faculty at Williams College in early June. While this move is welcome for professional and personal reasons, I am sad to be leaving CC and Colorado Springs.
My last day will be May 1st.
Thank you:
- For the opportunity to work for a PWI liberal arts college that knows what it means to commit to antiracism, diversity, equity, and inclusion,
- For the relationships, connections, and friendships, and
- For the growth-enhancing challenges.
My own ADEI lens has expanded exponentially as I have worked alongside you to change and transform Colorado College. As you continue this work, please keep the sentiments of these two quotes in mind:
"Learning. . . is not linear, and meaningful learning resists being quantified”. (Jesse Stommel in Undoing the Grade).
“Pedagogical strategies can determine the extent to which all students learn to engage more fully the ideas and issues that seem to have no direct relation to their experience”. (bell hooks in Teaching to Transgress).
Please remember that our relationships and connections live on even if I am not in Colorado and no longer work for CC. I am always only an email or Zoom call away and hearing from you is always welcome: fhagenp@gmail.com.
Warm regards,
Peony