We have sprung back to campus with a calendar that reflects the full intellectual diversity of our college! On the same day this week I attended a conference on the ancient philosopher Boethius and a gathering of some of the world’s foremost economists to inaugurate our new Center for Heterodox Economics. Earlier in the week, I attended an incredible interfaith banquet for over 300 students, organized by three of our own Kendall College students, who spoke eloquently about their respective Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths. And in between, it was my great honor to greet citizens and leaders from many of Oklahoma’s tribal nations, who had gathered at our 101 Archer Building to discuss a transformational grant that Professor Sean Latham has received from the Mellon Foundation for the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities to spend three years convening scholars, students, and members of the public to explore the questions of “Sovereignty and Democracy in Indian Country.” They even let me shoot the T-shirt cannon at a basketball game. If there were more hours in the day, I could have also attended concerts, artist talks, and more (actually, I did sneak in a History Department lecture, and a workshop on how The University of Tulsa can create interdisciplinary graduate programs for the next generation).
In short, as you’ll read in the rest of this newsletter, there is no place in the country more vibrant than Kendall College of Arts & Sciences! Thank you for all your support – and please mark your calendar now for Giving Day on April 8, 2025, so we can keep the momentum going.
Onward!
Blaine Greteman
Dean of the Kendall College of Arts & Sciences
The University of Tulsa