Perspectives Magazine
Dr. Ann Austin
Professor & Center Director
Reni McBride Staff Assistant
Michelle Hixson
Women’s Leadership Initiative Coordinator, WGS Program Advisor & Perspectives Editor
Justin Wheeler Office Aid
Jerra Fowers Office Aid
“To Us!” A Fall Toast At the beginning of each year, we are always hopeful, excited, and looking forward to accomplishing much. By one-month into the academic year, we are already beginning to be a bit discouraged, overwhelmed by the work, the students, the number of meetings, and the sense that somehow we’ll never be good enough, never get it done, never complete all the tasks that we’ve set for ourselves. With this day, may we vow to both support one another and lean in to accomplish what we hope to complete this year. May we celebrate the ways that our circumstances make us similar to one
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another, but more importantly, celebrate and cherish each other’s differences. Let us vow to “make things better for one person – whomever that may be” one colleague, one child, one partner, a whole department or university. Remember that what you believe to be real will be real in its consequences. If you believe you cannot do it, then you create a self-fulfilling prophecy. Believe that you can make it, whatever IT is, better. And by doing so, you and I, make it better for all. To the new year and to us!
Various Contributors
See Pages 8–9
Perspectives Art Review Board Dr. Laura Gelfand
Professor, Art History
Mike Daines
Assistant Professor, Graphic Design
Janet Hancock
Art and Design Senior, Staff Assistant
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