I hope all is well! Here we are at the end of week one of Spring 2017. While it has been just a tad nutty in the front office (mostly trying to accommodate an extraordinary number of students), my sense is that this first week has gone very well. That’s down to the hard work […]

Welcome, all, to 2017. I hope and trust your new year is starting well. I know mine has started with wonderful adventures and I know, too, that I am ready to settle back into the routine of the cool job I have which is, at its base, hanging out with all of you. Over the […]

And now the Friday of exam week. Commencement services are beginning. Final grades are getting entered. Students are leaving. Bells are ringing. Are you listening? Listening to the increasing quiet on campus and the growing craziness in Old Town? An amazing semester, don’t you think? Let’s talk money for just a second. CPD just received […]

Ah, the sun is out and I have hope that the mercury will inch above 20 sometime today. Maybe even above 30. I am not built for negative temperatures. Panda is not built for it either. She walked out of the house yesterday morning eager for her walk, took a breath, sneezed, and looked up […]

And now it is December. One more week of classes, a week of exams, and commencement. We have very nearly (and in some cases just barely!) made it through the fall semester. Congrats to all of us! Monday through Wednesday is supposed to be our first real cold snap (not that it hasn’t been rather […]

I hope all is well on this gorgeous day after Thanksgiving. I was privileged to see so many pictures of you and your families enjoying yesterday’s festivities. For me yesterday included breakfast with Elizabeth and my parents in Walla Walla and then traveling home from Eastern Washington through Salt Lake City to DIA and then […]

And now it is almost Thanksgiving. Wild, right? Two weeks of classes, a week of finals, graduation and we are done for the semester. I say this way too often: I can’t believe how fast this semester has gone. And for me at least these last two weeks have been a whirlwind. Since I chatted […]

Happy first Friday! It’s November. The sun is shining and the air is warm. Hardly seems like the day that is the average first day of snow in Fort Collins, does it? (Or is that November 2? Well you get the point!). Hey some great news to talk about all around. First, Allison has been […]

And now we have completed the last full week of October. Talk about scary! Who needs Halloween when you look at the days that have flown by, the work we have done, and the work left to do. And, lord willing, the fun we still have in front of us as well. Lots of cool […]

Just a short note today. Seems like the weeks get shorter and shorter and time goes faster and faster. Does it seem that way to you too? Hey, it’s been a really wonderful week though. Had lots of fun having alumni on campus meeting with our undergraduates. They came—as our alumni do—from all walks of […]