Statement from Centers, Institutes, and Programs on Racial Injustice and Ending White Supremacy We, the faculty and staff of the interdisciplinary Centers, Institutes, and Programs, stand together to express our shock, our heartbreak, and our outrage at the horrific and senseless killing of George Floyd and the ongoing violence against Black people. George Floyd, David […]

A Message from Dean John Elliott: Dear Colleagues and Friends of the UConn School of Business, George Floyd’s death has galvanized the moral center of our nation. Sadly, his brutal killing is but the latest of not years, but centuries of violence and inhumanity against people of color. As an educational community, UConn and the […]

The UConn Rudd Center is Committed to the Fight For Health Equity and Against Systemic Racism The brutal murders of Mr. George Floyd, Ms. Breonna Taylor, and Mr. Ahmaud Arbery have become the most recent examples of systemic racism against Black people in the United States. The UConn Rudd Center stands in solidarity with national […]

Dear Friends and Colleagues – The events of the past few weeks have brought sadness and outrage to communities across our nation. The senseless killing of black men and women demonstrates that as a nation, we need to make further and strong progress toward our aspirations of a diverse and inclusive society. The College of […]

Statement of Support Against Racism and Violence I am repulsed by the horrific deaths and injustices that the Black community continues to endure. Systemic racism, violence and oppression of People of Color must not be allowed to continue. I aspire to do more personally and within the Department to support our Black students and colleagues […]

As a community, we stand with those demanding justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, and an end to the police brutality, systemic racism, and anti-black violence that led to their deaths and the deaths of so many others. We as a department refuse to be silent about hatred, racism, and violence against […]

Dear Colleagues – The pain, sorrow, and outrage of the last week in the United States has been profound. We are faced with yet another series of horrific events. The terrible, unwarranted death of George Floyd has again highlighted the long history of racial injustice in our country. I echo the statement of President Katsouleas […]

Public Statement on Anti-Black Violence* Africana Studies Institute (ASI), UConn, Storrs We live, seemingly, in unprecedented times. People face daily crises and agitation because of pandemic, economic insecurity, and floundering national leadership whose institutions and actions lean as much toward violence and inhumanity as they do ineptitude. Yet, as Africana Studies scholars who for decades […]

To my UConn family, students, staff and faculty: In the wake of recent events, I wanted to reach out to make sure we are in dialogue, despite our physical distance. The world suffered another immense loss of life with the unjust killing of George Floyd this past Memorial Day. His death is a tragedy of […]

Dear UConn Health family, On August 28 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C,. in front of 250,000 black and white people and delivered a speech titled “I Have a Dream.” He spoke of African Americans never being satisfied as long as they are “the victims of the […]