Dean's Newsletter

March 10, 2015 Warm greetings from North Gate: The academic year cycles through peaks and valleys, periods of intense activity and moments of repose. Right now we’ve entered a time when the School is truly busy—evening events with marquee speakers tumble over each other, students at their screens well into the night, curricular innovations catching…

June 13, 2014 Dear friends of the J-School: “All I want from you is world peace, economic fairness, and I’m going to toss in racial decency, so get on that please,” The New York Times’ media writer David Carr told our graduates on a brilliant May morning in the School’s well-loved courtyard, and with that…

December 19, 2013 Colleagues, The holiday season is the time to recap notable accomplishments of the year that’s ending, and I’m still new enough to the job—my first anniversary will be New Year’s Day—that I continue to be surprised and deeply impressed by the consistently high caliber of the work of our teachers and students.…