A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
The skyscraper — redefining preconceived boundaries like many of us — was commonly adopted by New York when its citizens termed for far more space. The town constructed just about 100 iron giants in fewer than 40 many years, and development in engineering and human tenacity made it all doable. That was a lot more than 130 a long time ago, and as our planet contends with the increasing problems of our time, Teachers University is also reaching new heights, just like the city’s skyscrapers, in our very long-held pursuit of productive remedies that establish greater equity for all.
2022 — our to start with calendar year back again at full capability on campus considering that the commence of Covid-19 — presented new peaks to surmount: climbing disparities in schooling, wellbeing, and mental wellness amid a shifting financial state resistance to more inclusive faculty curriculums the second-most mass shootings in U.S. record, just driving 2021 a rising mental wellness disaster and additional.
In response, our extended neighborhood has answered the get in touch with to action with a redoubled dedication to the scholarship and service that defines Instructors Higher education alone.
2022 was a banner calendar year for study at the Higher education, which earned 22{08cd930984ace14b54ef017cfb82c397b10f0f7d5e03e6413ad93bb8e636217f} of supplemental study funding, led progress at the countrywide amount, and expanded opportunities for collaboration with our colleagues at Columbia and Barnard.
Pursuing daring remedies also meant continuing our function in digital pedagogy and innovation to expand the boundaries of what’s attainable in school rooms at TC and outside of — and reimagining the preparation for professions like training in get to best place our students for the function ahead. We ongoing our perform to forge pathways that help student accomplishment — from acceptance by way of publish-graduation — with new developments like resources for scholar-dad and mom.
The University also ongoing to put into action new recruitment initiatives that yielded a single of the most varied college choosing many years in TC’s heritage, and launched its very first DEI Report to benchmark our continued efforts to bolster and broaden range, fairness and inclusion throughout our institutional applications and functions. Our faculty, learners and alumni are on the ground in neighborhoods across New York Town and all around the globe, doing the job with local leaders and associates to drive tangible progress throughout education, psychology and well being.
None of this would have been attainable with out our sturdy Academics Higher education group throughout the earth — our committed college, college students and alumni (all 94,000 of them), and our generous donors, partners, supporters and neighbors. As we appear again on 2022 with each other, I hope you will proceed to sign up for us in our aspirations to arrive at new heights, no make a difference the challenges forward.
Warmly,
Thomas Bailey
President
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