Academic Year 2019-20

In recent days many of you have reached out to us personally, posted on social media, or signed petitions on Change.org and elsewhere to express your frustration and anger regarding the circumstances surrounding the brutal murder of George Floyd and the many other cases of racial injustice in our country.

Over the past months we have all learned of the terrible consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, but relatively few have witnessed or described the horror of dying from this disease.

I am writing with a summary of our winter Board of Trustees meeting, which took place February 5-7 in New York City. As is customary, the Board had substantive discussions during its executive sessions and conducted much of its business through its designated committees.

As we turn our attention to implementing the tactics needed to achieve the initiatives of The Plan for Bucknell 2025, we must work together to ensure the University community is well positioned to succeed in this critically important endeavor.

I am pleased to share a summary of our fall 2019 Board of Trustees meeting, which took place on campus from Wednesday, October 23, through Friday, October 25.

Welcome to the start of the 2019-2020 academic year at Bucknell. It is always exciting to see our students return to campus — and to meet our first-years, who are experiencing the wonder of college for the very first time.

Good evening members of our distinguished faculty and staff. And welcome, Bucknell University Transfer Students and Class of 2023!