Dear UConn Community,<\/p>\n
I continue to be moved by your incredibly warm welcomes and messages, and inspired by your talents and generosity. I am learning about wonderful traditions like Huskython<\/a>, the recent recognition of our Grammy-winning music faculty<\/a>, and I even got an invitation to surf with an Avery Point<\/a> Ph.D. student (I’ll wait for late spring on that one!).<\/p>\n I wanted to let you know my plans for visits to Connecticut and get-to-know-you meetings in the coming months: beginning next week (March 10-13), I will be coming up for a few days each month between now and August to listen and learn as much as I can from you. I will also be visiting all of the schools, colleges, and regional campuses \u2013 a few at a time \u2013 between now and midway through the fall semester.<\/p>\n Anna Maria and I are excited to start things off Sunday with our first real tour of Storrs with a student guide! On Monday and Tuesday, March 11 and 12, I will be meeting with many members of the University\u2019s senior leadership, as well as student leaders on the Storrs campus.<\/p>\n But I would also love to say hello to any and all members of the campus community in person; please feel free to come by and say hello and grab a cup of coffee with me between 8:45 a.m. and shortly before 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 12 at The Beanery<\/a> in the Benton Museum<\/a> on the Storrs campus.<\/strong><\/p>\n I will also be touring UConn Health in Farmington on Wednesday morning, March 13. Please join me if you can for a hello coffee at the mezzanine of the University Tower near the Starbucks between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m.<\/strong> All are welcome to stop by.<\/p>\n And as always: Go Huskies!<\/p>\n Tom<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UConn’s president-designate looks forward to meeting members of the campus communities in Storrs on March 12 and in Farmington on March 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":146895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,2225,2234,2233],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-146864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uconn-storrs","category-university-life","category-university-news"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 06:31:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146864"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146946,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146864\/revisions\/146946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/146895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146864"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=146864"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=146864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}