On April 30, the UMRA Board of Directors sent a letter to University of Minnesota President Rebecca Cunningham and Provost Rachel Croson expressing the Board's support for the University administration as it confronts the legal, ethical, and moral challenges created by the current federal leadership.
The letter states in part, "We applaud President Cunningham's March 25 blog post "We Are Stronger As a Collective" and wholeheartedly agree with the proverb she referenced: 'Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.'"
It concludes: "As retirees from all segments of the University of Minnesota, ... (w)e cannot stand by as spectators while our collective contributions to this great University are threatened with erasure and the institution's future strength is seriously jeopardized."
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The election of UMRA officers and new board members for 2025–26 will be conducted via an online poll from May 12 to 18, with the results to be announced at our annual meeting on May 20. Sally Gregory Kohlstedt leads the slate of nominees as president-elect. She came to the University of Minnesota in 1989 as a professor and associate dean, and retired in 2018.