Author Letter to the Editor

The College of Arts & Sciences-Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (CAS-DEI) committee is charged, as per Section 4.1.5.6 of the Governance Document of the College of Arts and Sciences, “to propose,...

The Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Program has written this statement in response to the anonymous, hostile note placed on our bulletin board in Donnarumma last Tuesday. For over three decades at...

To the University community, We, the undersigned faculty of Fairfield, condemn all racist, Islamophobic, antisemitic, xenophobic, homophobic, sexist and other hate speech and acts. The results of the...

From: Patricia E. Behre, Associate Professor of History Dear Students, One of the simplest ways of describing a university is one that I have always found the most inspiring: “A community of...

 To the Fairfield University Community,        On behalf of Gamma Lambda Chi, the Fairfield University chapter of Chi Sigma Iota, the international honor society of professional counseling, we...

To the Editor: The members of R.A.F.T., the Rational Association of Free Thinkers, join others in the university community in acknowledging, and celebrating the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr....

Photo by Irene Mulvey To the Editor: A key principle of academic work is a commitment to shared governance. This principle stems from the inescapable interdependence among all the components of a...

To the Editors: The members of R.A.F.T., the Rational Association of Free Thinkers, welcome the conversation begun by students last week, responding to the Oct. 7 event staged by Students for Life. As...

Since August 2013, we have followed with dismay the events surrounding the abrupt decision by the university’s Information Technology Systems service to end the use of the Mentor course management system and replace it with Blackboard. We have heard the ITS argument that Mentor has security problems, but we have seen no credible evidence that Mentor could potentially compromise the security of student records or any other sensitive information.

I am writing this letter in support of the work of the Educational Technologies Committee and the many faculty across campus working to re-instate Mentor as a course management and institutional tools system at Fairfield.