President’s Message, ĢƵ State Magazine - Winter 2026 Letter from the President March 10, 2026 Dear Alumni and Friends of the University, The phrase “student success” is uttered so often in higher education circles that it can seem nothing more than a buzzword. Yet it is the very essence of what we aim to accomplish at ĢƵ State — enabling every student to proceed from first-year to the commencement stage. […]
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President’s Message, ĢƵ State Magazine - Spring 2025 Letter from the President May 30, 2025 Dear Alumni and Friends of the University, For 150 years now, a ĢƵ State education has helped individuals scale the ladders of economic success and social mobility. When founded in 1874 as the ĢƵ Normal School, we offered a no-cost, two-year program for those seeking to teach in the growing public schools. Teaching was an […]
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President’s Message, ĢƵ State Magazine - 150th Anniversary What Makes a Lancer a Lancer? October 21, 2024 Courage, Leadership, Service and Giving Back By President Barry M. Maloney When I look back at the many remarkable individuals who have graduated from ĢƵ State during our 150-year history, some common themes emerge, and together, they tell the story of who we are as Lancer Nation. It was the Reconstruction Era when our founding […]
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President’s Message, ĢƵ State Magazine - Spring 2024 President’s Note April 11, 2024 For 150 years now, ĢƵ has served as a provider of a well-educated regional workforce. From our earliest incarnation as the ĢƵ Normal School, we’ve provided experiential learning opportunities. The first Normal School principal, Elias Harlow Russell, helped pioneer an innovative teacher training model that put students into the city’s classrooms as part […]
Read Story President’s Note President’s Message, ĢƵ State Magazine - Fall 2023 President’s Note July 14, 2023 Dear Alumni and Friends of the University, What an exciting time to be a student-athlete at ĢƵ! During the 2022-2023 seasons, women’s ice hockey, men’s basketball, and men’s soccer won conference titles; men’s ice hockey made it to the conference championship game for the first time in school history; and both women’s basketball […]
Read Story President’s Note Dear Alumni and Friends, The ĢƵ community recently marked the passing of my predecessor, ĢƵ State’s first and only female president, Janelle Ashley, Ph.D., who served from 2002 to 2011. As we reflect on her many important contributions to the university, I am reminded that not so long ago women faced significant barriers […]
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