March 2020

Checklist part 2: ‘Emotions need motion’

March 26, 2020

We can’t skip the stages of grief, but we can be kind to ourselves and one another as we flow through them — sometimes in waves and loops.

A checklist for all of us

March 22, 2020

I keep a sticky note on my computer monitor with my personal checklist. It’s a reminder, especially when I am stressed or overwhelmed, to go through my checklist, take stock of these dimensions of myself, and to devote attention and care to all of these capacities. This is more than self-care, it is self-equipping.

A special message for our seniors and graduate students

March 18, 2020

With all of the recent changes on our college campus due to COVID-19, I wanted to share a message with our seniors and graduate students in these challenging and unprecedented times.

COVID-19 calls on our better angels

March 10, 2020

I’m not an expert on viruses, but I do have a lifetime of experience in public health. Public health is about the health of all of us, as a community. Public health does not deny our innate need to attend to our own safety and survival, but it also calls us to do more than that: to act on behalf of the common good.

‘We needed this’

March 1, 2020

Last week I accompanied the Voices of the Earth (formerly named the Women’s World Music Choir) on their spring break tour in Puerto Rico.

President Rebecca J. Stoltzfus

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COVID-19 calls on our better angels

‘We needed this’