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Looking to the Light

January 17, 2025

The Spring 2025 Semester

January 10, 2025

2024

Why We Gather: The Ritual and Spirit of Thanksgiving (LinkedIn )

November 25, 2024

Warm wishes for a season of togetherness

December 16, 2024

Growing Gratitude

November 22, 2024

Honoring our Veterans with Support and Opportunity (LinkedIn )

November 11, 2024

Rolling into Wave Weekend

November 7, 2024

The State of Tulane University 2024

November 4, 2024

Milestone Moments

September 27, 2024

Ten Years of Yulman

September 6, 2024

The Fall 2024 Semester

August 19, 2024

Convocation 2024 Speech

August 18, 2024

It’s Time for Fall Move-In!

August 9, 2024

The Test of Time (Tulanian Magazine )

August 9, 2024

Emancipation and Education

June 18, 2024

Memorial Day

May 24, 2024

Commencement 2024 Speech

May 18, 2024

The Class of 2024

May 15, 2024

Recognizing Faculty for Teaching and Mentoring

April 26, 2024

Our 2024 Commencement Speaker

March 22, 2024

A Perfect Pair

March 8, 2024

Make Way for a Wave of Green

March 1, 2024

Tulane’s Identity (Tulanian Magazine )

February 21, 2024

A Parade of Creativity and Culture

February 9, 2024

Black History Month 2024

February 1, 2024

MLK Day

January 12, 2024

2023

Ever Green

December 14, 2023

A Championship Moment

December 1, 2023

Sharing Gratitude, Spreading Kindness

November 17, 2023

A Salute to Service

November 10, 2023

Employee Appreciation Week 2023

November 2, 2023

The Language of Community

October 16, 2023

Academic Year-In-Review 2022-2023

September 29, 2023

Keeping Pace with a Changing Economy

September 15, 2023

The State of Tulane University 2023

September 1, 2023

Welcome Back, and Welcome Home

August 25, 2023

A new semester and a new academic year

August 21, 2023

Convocation 2023 Speech

August 20, 2023

University Update on Artificial Intelligence

August 18, 2023

It’s Time for Fall Move-In!

August 11, 2023

Complex Problems, Complex Answers (Tulanian Magazine )

July 11, 2023

Juneteenth

June 16, 2023

Transforming communities: academic institutions and the cities we call home (UPP Foundation Lecture, London )

June 13, 2023

Hello, Tulane Class of 2027!

June 2, 2023

Honoring Their Sacrifice

May 26, 2023

Commencement 2023 Speech

May 20, 2023

Commencement 2023

May 19, 2023

Celebrating Faculty Who Change Lives

April 28, 2023

Announcing the Commencement 2023 Honorees

April 21, 2023

Commencement Speaker Announcement

April 12, 2023

Letter from the President: Spring 2023

April 10, 2023

Not your parents' Google: Why universities should embrace, not fear, ChatGPT an… (USA Today )

April 7, 2023

Do You Know NOEW?

March 24, 2023

Wave of Green: Return of a Beloved Tradition

March 17, 2023

A Festival That May Change Your Life

March 3, 2023

A Winning Carnival Season

February 17, 2023

Black History Month

February 1, 2023

Spring Semester 2023

January 23, 2023

Honoring MLK

January 13, 2023

2022

Living and Learning (Tulanian Magazine )

December 5, 2022

Roll Wave, Roll!

December 2, 2022

Gratitude and Giving

November 18, 2022

Saluting Our Veterans!

November 11, 2022

Employee Appreciation

November 4, 2022

Roll Waving into Homecoming

October 21, 2022

Letter from the President: Fall 2022

October 1, 2022

Others Are Watching

September 16, 2022

Happy Labor Day

September 2, 2022

A New Path Paved by Innovation (Tulanian Magazine )

September 10, 2022

Tulane and New Orleans, a partnership that can transform downtown (The Advocate )

July 11, 2022

Celebrate Juneteenth

June 17, 2022

Memorial Day

May 27, 2022

Commencement 2022 Speech

May 20, 2022

Here Comes Commencement!

May 20, 2022

These are our Core Values

April 19, 2022

The Innovation Institute

April 13, 2022

Leadership Lessons for Opening Day

April 6, 2022

Letter from the President: Spring 2022

April 3, 2022

Commencement 2022 Keynote Speaker

March 14, 2022

Take a Break to See Your Favorite Author

March 10, 2022

A Better Tomorrow (Tulanian Magazine )

March 2, 2022

Book Fest, Mardi Gras for the Mind!

March 4, 2022

Happy Mardi Gras and Rouler Wave

February 25, 2022

Commencement 2020 Keynote Speaker

February 21, 2022

Higher Education after COVID

February 15, 2022

A New Partnership for a Better Future

February 11, 2022

2022 Black History Month

February 3, 2022

What is QEP

February 3, 2022

Defining Our Core Values

January 24, 2022

Honoring MLK with A Strategy for Tomorrow

January 14, 2022

Quakerism Meets Socrates

January 10, 2022

2021

As the Year Comes to a Close

December 17, 2021

Thanks and Giving

November 19, 2021

Homecoming at Last!

November 12, 2021

Honoring Our Veterans

November 10, 2021

Five Leadership Lessons from My Mentor, Judge Leon Higginbotham

November 10, 2021

Action on Climate Change

November 5, 2021

Looking Ahead

October 22, 2021

The 7:30 a.m. Call: Lessons from COVID-19 & Hurricane Ida

October 18, 2021

Letter from the President: Fall 2021

September 27, 2021

Welcome Back Students!

September 23, 2021

Boundless Solutions (Tulanian Magazine )

September 20, 2021

Remembering 9/11

September 10, 2021

A Move-In Message

August 13, 2021

The National Holiday of Juneteenth

June 18, 2021

Honoring Milestone Anniversaries & President’s Awards for Excellence Recipients

May 28, 2021

What a Year!

May 26, 2021

Commencement 2021 Speech

May 22, 2021

Celebrating the Class of 2021

May 18, 2021

My Conversation with Walter Isaacson

May 12, 2021

A Message from President Fitts

April 20, 2021

President’s Excellence Awards

April 16, 2021

Cities and Universities

April 8, 2021

Letter from the President: Spring 2021

April 2, 2021

Commencement 2021

March 26, 2021

A Message from President Fitts

March 18, 2021

COVID, One Year Later

March 17, 2021

Great Cities Need Great Universities (Tulanian Magazine )

March 15, 2021

A Plan for Now Update

March 3, 2021

A Letter to the Tulane Medical Community

February 14, 2021

A Message for Black History Month

February 7, 2021

Welcome Back

January 20, 2021

MLK - A Message from President Fitts

January 18, 2021

Leadership Institute Launch

January 13, 2021

2020

New and Expanded President’s Excellence Awards | Heroes & Helpers

December 9, 2020

Join a Tulane Tradition

December 1, 2020

A Successful Semester | Heroes & Helpers

November 19, 2020

A Promise to Louisiana

November 12, 2020

Recognition for a job well done

November 3, 2020

A Note on Tomorrow's Election

November 2, 2020

A Message from the President

October 30, 2020

Hurricane Zeta Update

October 29, 2020

A Message from President Fitts: Hurricane Zeta Preparation

October 28, 2020

To Our International Students

October 26, 2020

Civil Discourse

October 21, 2020

Letter from the President: Fall 2020

October 15, 2020

TUday & Tomorrow Debuts | Heroes & Helpers

October 14, 2020

Why We Came Back (Tulanian Magazine )

October 2, 2020

A Plan for Now and a Strategy for Tomorrow

October 2, 2020

Thank you!

August 28, 2020

Reaching Out After Laura

August 27, 2020

A Year Like No Other

August 19, 2020

Return to Campus Plan

July 20, 2020

A Message to Our International Students

July 8, 2020

Naming Review Task Force

June 24, 2020

Juneteenth

June 19, 2020

A Plan for Tomorrow: Racial Equity at Tulane

June 12, 2020

A Message from the President

June 1, 2020

A Successful Semester | Heroes & Helpers

May 22, 2020

TUgether Celebrating the Class of 2020 Speech

May 16, 2020

A Special Day for an Unforgettable Class | Heroes & Helpers

May 15, 2020

Finals and Plans for the Fall | Heroes & Helpers

May 1, 2020

Hear from Leading Experts | Heroes & Helpers

April 24, 2020

Plans for the Fall Semester | Heroes & Helpers

April 17, 2020

Spring, Hope and Our First Heroes and Helpers

April 9, 2020

Heroes and Helpers

April 3, 2020

How Are You Feeling?

March 27, 2020

Tulane Strong

March 20, 2020

A Better and Stronger Tulane

March 16, 2020

Protecting our Community, COVID-19 Update

March 6, 2020

Letter from the President: Spring 2020

March 1, 2020

A Message from President Mike Fitts and Doug Hertz, Chair, Board of Tulane

February 27, 2020

It's Carnival Time!

February 21, 2020

Return of the Bead Tree Tradition

February 14, 2020

Seize the Opportunity

February 7, 2020

Tulane and the Battle Against 2019-nCoV

January 31, 2020

Honoring Dr. King Through Service

January 17, 2020

2020 Vision

January 13, 2020

2019

A Holiday Message from President Fitts

December 13, 2019

A Season and Reason to Give

December 6, 2019

What Happens at Tulane Doesn’t Stay at Tulane… (Tulanian Magazine )

December 3, 2019

Honoring Tulane Trailblazers

November 25, 2019

Thankfulness and Other Tulane Traditions New and Old

November 22, 2019

A Special View from Gibson - Welcoming Two Trailblazers Back to Tulane

November 12, 2019

Homecoming and a Focus on the Future

November 1, 2019

Home Sweet Home

October 25, 2019

Justice Sotomayor Coming to Tulane!

October 18, 2019

Student Photo Challenge and My Unofficial Portrait

October 4, 2019

The President is In

September 27, 2019

Letter from the President: Fall 2019

September 27, 2019

A Change of Venue for Commencement

September 20, 2019

State of the University Address 2019

September 7, 2019

Leading by Serving and The (Great) State We’re In

September 6, 2019

A Day for Rest

August 30, 2019

Convocation 2019 Speech

August 23, 2019

Welcome to Your New Year!

August 21, 2019

The Academic Year that Was

May 24, 2019

Commencement 2019 Speech

May 18, 2019

Many Roads Lead to Commencement

May 17, 2019

Commencement Honorees We Need Now More than Ever

May 6, 2019

Service, Celebration and Remembrance

April 18, 2019

Letter from the President: Spring 2019

April 15, 2019

Winners, Walkers, and More Winners

April 5, 2019

A Vigil for Hope

March 29, 2019

The View from Shanghai

March 22, 2019

Find Your Perfect Match at Give Green 2019

March 15, 2019

We’re on It (Tulanian Magazine )

March 1, 2019

Take the Fitts Bit Challenge this Mardi Gras

March 1, 2019

This Month and Always

February 22, 2019

Who is the Best?

February 15, 2019

Meet our Commencement Speaker

February 8, 2019

Are You On for MLK?

January 18, 2019

This is Our Year

January 16, 2019

2018

A Holiday Message from President Fitts

December 19, 2018

The University of the Future (Tulanian Magazine )

December 10, 2018

A Special View from Gibson - The Passing of a President

December 5, 2018

Where Do You Want to Go Bowling?

November 30, 2018

Thank You, TU

November 16, 2018

Our Team, Our Home, Our Tulane

November 9, 2018

Are You Coming Home?

November 2, 2018

Letter from the President: Fall 2018

October 27, 2018

We Are Taking Action

October 26, 2018

The Tulane Faithful

October 19, 2018

Hurricane Michael and How You Can Help

October 12, 2018

Time for a Change

October 5, 2018

Back to Future, The New Tulanian

September 28, 2018

Beartown

September 21, 2018

Join Me for State of the University Address

September 14, 2018

State of the University Address 2018 Speech

September 13, 2018

My New Orleans Moment (Tulanian Magazine )

September 3, 2018

Welcome Back!

August 30, 2018

Convocation 2018 Speech

August 24, 2018

Move-In Day is Here!

August 22, 2018

Special Place in My Heart

June 27, 2018

Summer, Summer, Summer

May 25, 2018

Commencement 2018 Speech

May 19, 2018

Three Thousand, One-in-a-Millions at Commencement 2018

May 18, 2018

Winding Down the Academic Year, Gearing Up for Commencement

May 11, 2018

Student Solutions to Sexual Assault

May 4, 2018

Letter from the President: Spring 2018

April 27, 2018

Meet Your Commencement Speaker

April 26, 2018

Researching, Reducing and Preventing Violence

April 20, 2018

The Day of Giving Generously

April 13, 2018

A Spring in our Step

March 29, 2018

La Louisiane, chez nous-autres

March 23, 2018

The Tipping Point

March 20, 2018

Mofongo Memories

March 16, 2018

A Working Session to End Sexual Misconduct

February 23, 2018

Happy Mardi Gras Tulane!

February 9, 2018

All Campus Town Hall

January 23, 2018

First Day Redux

January 19, 2018

Your New Semester

January 16, 2018

Starting with a Dream

January 12, 2018

2017

Rising to the Challenge

December 15, 2017

This Is It

December 8, 2017

Only the Audacious Campaign Kickoff

December 8, 2017

Please Tune In

December 1, 2017

Letter to New Orleans

December 1, 2017

Thanksgiving: Where do I begin?

November 17, 2017

We Thank and Welcome Our Veterans

November 10, 2017

Thank Heaven for Homecoming

November 3, 2017

Reaching Out, Working Together

October 13, 2017

Who Deserves the Spirit of Tulane Award?

September 29, 2017

Letter from the President: Fall 2017

September 26, 2017

Confronting Sexual Violence

September 22, 2017

Our Response to Irma

September 14, 2017

Remembering Eamon

September 8, 2017

Tulane and DACA

September 5, 2017

What Your Labor Has Made Possible

September 1, 2017

Convocation 2017 Speech

August 29, 2017

A Moving Day

August 25, 2017

A Special View from Gibson - Charlottesville

August 16, 2017

State of the University Address

August 8, 2017

A Special View from Gibson - Eamon Michael Kelly

June 29, 2017

Entrepreneurial Ethos

June 12, 2017

The Academic Year that Was

May 26, 2017

Commencement 2017 Speech

May 20, 2017

Commencement Commences!

May 19, 2017

The Stars of Commencement

May 12, 2017

Can I put this on my résumé?

May 5, 2017

Two Tulane Greats

April 28, 2017

We’re Crawfesting!

April 21, 2017

Tulane President Fitts 2016 Convocation Speech

April 12, 2017

Honoring our Teachers

April 7, 2017

Letter from the President: Spring 2017

April 3, 2017

Hosting Our President

March 31, 2017

Commencement Honorees

March 24, 2017

Possibilities

March 20, 2017

A Fulbright and a Prayer

March 17, 2017

A Special View from Gibson - Our Commencement Speaker

March 6, 2017

The Krewe du View from Gibson - Happy Mardi Gras!

February 24, 2017

All-Stars at Tulane

February 17, 2017

Fighting and Preventing Crime

February 10, 2017

A Special View From Gibson - Tulane is an International Family

January 31, 2017

A Message on Immigration

January 27, 2017

New Year, New Era

January 20, 2017

Living the Dream

January 13, 2017

2016

A Special Holiday View From Gibson

December 16, 2016

The "Finals" Countdown

December 9, 2016

A Bold and Ambitious Goal

December 2, 2016

Water, Water (and Hope) Everywhere

December 1, 2016

A Special View from Gibson - The Election

November 9, 2016

One Word

November 4, 2016

Looking A Lot Like Homecoming

October 28, 2016

Love and Brain Power

October 21, 2016

Letter from the President: Fall 2016

October 15, 2016

Send Me Your Questions

October 14, 2016

A Special View from Gibson - Crime

October 6, 2016

Progress on Diversity

September 30, 2016

The Election

September 23, 2016

A Higher Ranking and a New Campus

September 16, 2016

A Woman’s World

September 14, 2016

360 Degrees of Inspiration

September 9, 2016

A New Academic Year!

August 29, 2016

Helping Our Flood Victims

August 17, 2016

Help for Colleagues in Flooded Areas

August 15, 2016

A Special View from Gibson - Confronting Troubled Times

July 15, 2016

Family Ties

June 2, 2016

What a Year!

May 20, 2016

Commencement 2016 Speech

May 14, 2016

Happy Commencement

May 13, 2016

Commencement Here We Come!

May 6, 2016

Tulane and The Cancer Moonshot

April 29, 2016

Volunteer for a Magic Moment

April 15, 2016

Spring in New Orleans

April 8, 2016

Letter from the President: Spring 2016

April 8, 2016

TU, Entrepreneurship and NOLA

April 1, 2016

Bold and Adventurous

March 25, 2016

What a Day!

March 18, 2016

Inauguration Address

March 17, 2016

Announcing our Commencement Speaker

March 14, 2016

Join Us in Service!

March 4, 2016

A gift for our faculty

February 26, 2016

TOPS

February 19, 2016

A Fond Farewell

January 29, 2016

New Year, New Class, New Heights

January 22, 2016

A Week for Peace and Change

January 15, 2016

Welcome Back!

January 11, 2016

New Semester, New Year

January 8, 2016

2015

A Holiday of Peace and Hope

December 18, 2015

Finals, Finals, Finals

December 11, 2015

Global Learning

December 5, 2015

Big Thanks, Good Gifts, High Hopes

December 4, 2015

Update on Peter Gold

November 23, 2015

Get Real this Holiday Season

November 20, 2015

This Week's Sit-In

November 17, 2015

A Special View from Gibson

November 13, 2015

November 13, 2015

November 6, 2015

October 30, 2015

October 23, 2015

A Special View from Gibson - An Update and Reward

October 14, 2015

Letter from the President: Fall 2015

October 13, 2015

Wrinkle Free Research and More

October 9, 2015

Diverse and Global

October 2, 2015

Great Discoveries and Scream Queens

September 25, 2015

More Beautiful Than Ever

September 18, 2015

Startup City

September 10, 2015

A Special View From Gibson - Task Force Reports

September 8, 2015

A Well-Deserved Labor Day

September 4, 2015

A Tulane Remembrance

August 28, 2015

Welcome Back!

August 25, 2015

Convocation 2015 Speech

August 22, 2015

A Special View From Gibson - Looking Back, Moving Forward

August 19, 2015

Listen Up

June 21, 2015

Truly Remarkable

May 22, 2015

Commencement 2015 Speech

May 16, 2015

See You at Commencement!

May 15, 2015

The Final Dream

May 8, 2015

Combatting Sexual Assault

May 1, 2015

My Week in Washington

April 24, 2015

Great Tulane Students Today and Tomorrow

April 10, 2015

A Spring in our Service

April 2, 2015

Don't Miss Commencement 2015!

March 27, 2015

A Quaker's Shabbat

March 20, 2015

Honoring the Best of the Best

March 13, 2015

A Presidential Symposium for You

March 6, 2015

Panamanian Tulanians

March 5, 2015

My First Mardi Gras

February 13, 2015

From Beads to Good Deeds

February 7, 2015

A Wave of Careers

February 6, 2015

Our Commencement Speaker

January 30, 2015

New Class Snapshot

January 23, 2015

Dr. King

January 16, 2015

A Special View from Gibson

January 13, 2015

Welcome Back 2015

January 9, 2015

2014

A Season for Hope

December 19, 2014

Par Excellence

December 12, 2014

Standing Together

December 5, 2014

Proud to Call It Home

December 4, 2014

The Summit of Knowledge

November 29, 2014

Letter from the President: Fall 2014

November 21, 2014

Hooray for Homecoming

November 14, 2014

November 7, 2014

November 5, 2014

November 1, 2014

October 31, 2014

October 24, 2014

From California to Washington, D.C.

October 17, 2014

Jazz, Gumbo and Tulane

October 10, 2014

And the Winners Are...

October 3, 2014

My Friend Lani Guinier

September 26, 2014

Skating By

September 19, 2014

True Tulane Heroes

September 12, 2014

Convocation 2014 Speech

August 23, 2014

Move-In Day

August 22, 2014

Hello Tulane University!

July 1, 2014

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