Chris GilmerDr. Chris GilmerOpinionShould 25 Years Feel Like Forever or Only Yesterday?In 2024, I celebrate an anniversary that is special to me, 25 years of close affiliation with America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).January 9, 2024African-AmericanA Letter to George FloydI do not know at a biological or emotional level what it is like to be Black. White privilege was my birthright. Poverty, and homosexuality, and a propensity toward obesity were equally my birthright, and I have experienced prejudice for all of those reasons. Still, I do not pretend to know what it feels like to be racially profiled or to know that my ancestors were violently separated from their homeland and brought in chains to serve people whose race is the same as mine.June 2, 2020StudentsYou Are Worthy of Your Dreams“You are worthy of your dreams.” This is my unchanging message to my students as their president, never more important than during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.April 14, 2020Page 1 of 1
