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An Open Letter to Secretaries Blinken and Austin Regarding Afghan SIVs Signed by 100 Former Foreign Service and Military Officers An Open Letter to Secretaries Blinken and Austin Regarding Afghan SIVs Signed by 100 Former Foreign Service and Military Officers Note: The below letter was sent to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on May 10, 2021. MEI s Senior Vice President Gerald Feierstein, Distinguished Senior Fellow on National Security General (ret.) Joseph Votel, and MEI Afghanistan and Pakistan Program Director Marvin G. Weinbaum are among the signatories. We are a group of former diplomats, military officers, and civil servants. Many of us have helped manage and support U.S. engagement with Afghanistan over the past twenty years. We are writing to you today to add our voices to the many Americans who have already expressed concern, both publicly and privately, about the fate of the many thousand ....
SIUE celebrates 2020 grads FacebookTwitterEmail SIUE Chancellor Randy Pembrook, left, greets alumna Tatyana Curtis with Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Denise Cobb in a celebration of 2020 graduates who were unable to celebrate in-person during spring and fall 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Commencement exercises continue through Sunday. EDWARDSVILLE Southern Illinois University Edwardsville on Thursday provided a commencement event for its 2020 graduates who were unable to have a live commencement ceremony last spring and fall because of the COVID-19 pandemic. SIUE provided an on-stage acknowledgement and congratulations from Chancellor Randy Pembrook, and Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Denise Cobb who greeted nearly 120 alumni at the First Community Arena at the Vadalabene Center. ....
SIUE begins commencement season The Telegraph FacebookTwitterEmail EDWARDSVILLE Commencement season began Saturday at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville with the School of Pharmacy ceremony at Korte Stadium. Chancellor Randy Pembrook and Dean Mark Luer conferred degrees upon 79 graduates in the 2021 class. The outdoor ceremonies were the first held at SIUE since the early 1990s. To return to in-person commencement exercises during the COVID-19 era, Pembrook is overseeing 10 smaller outdoor ceremonies for 2,325 eligible graduates during the first two weekends in May. All ceremonies are streamed live on siue.edu/tv. The School of Pharmacy combines its traditional hooding ceremony with commencement. Conner McClain, of St. Louis, earned a doctorate in pharmacy and provided the student address. ....
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2,325 students to receive degrees The Telegraph FacebookTwitterEmail SIUE commencement speakers include, from left, top row, Ronald Akpan, Sam Childerson and Kenzie Holzinger; bottom row, Bailey Johnston, Conner McClain, Leanne Montgomery and Peter Romero. EDWARDSVILLE Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Chancellor Randy Pembrook will oversee a series of 10 outdoor, in-person ceremonies at Korte Stadium for 2,325 eligible graduates at the University’s 2021 Spring Commencement exercises during the first two weekends in May. The School of Pharmacy will begin at noon Saturday, May 1. To adhere to the state’s Restore Illinois Plan, as well as local health and safety protocols, SIUE split ceremonies into smaller groups of approximately 150 graduates with limited guests. If faced with inclement weather, a photo opportunity has been planned in the First Community Arena at the Vadalabene Center. ....