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<p style="margin-right:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white">June 2, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white">This is not the email that I intended to send. I wanted to send a message that shared my excitement that we are planning for the fall in creative
ways.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white">And then, I couldn’t because
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">my heart is very heavy. What happened to George Floyd is horrible and sickening. Our beloved country is in turmoil with violence against people, vehicles and businesses such that those actions distract
from the meaningful basis for the peaceful protests. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">And then I think of my responsibility . . . and our responsibility . . . to be the change we want to see. I think about the amazing and caring impact of our faculty, staff and students
who reach so many people to improve their health and their lives. We have tremendous capacity to do good—even more good than we have been doing. Think about what actions we can take that will give ourselves and others reason for hope for an improved future.
As President Obama said, “It falls on us to create a ‘new normal’ in which the legacy of bigotry and unequal treatment no longer infects our institutions or our hearts.”
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">As you think, consider registering for TOMORROW’s (Wednesday’s)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:27.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Campus Town Hall at noon: “I Can’t Breathe—From Agony to Activism.”<span style="background:white">
</span><a href="https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/i_cant_breathe_from_agony_to_activism#.XtbHwsZ7k6h">https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/i_cant_breathe_from_agony_to_activism#.XtbHwsZ7k6h</a><span style="background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Finally, there is probably no better example of the lack of situational leadership, which we discuss in the Emerging Professional, than what happened last week. Had the three officers
shown situational leadership by doing the right thing, the outcome could have been very different.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Let us create a better future together.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Patricia D Kroboth, Dean<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dr. Gordon J. Vanscoy Distinguished Service Professor
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">School of Pharmacy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">University of Pittsburgh <o:p>
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