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November 18, 2016

Dear President-elect Trump,

As do you, we “seek common ground, not hostility; partnership, not conflict.” In order to maintain the trust required for such productive engagement, it is essential that we immediately reaffirm the core values of our democratic nation: human decency, equal rights, freedom of expression, and freedom from discrimination. As college and university presidents, we commit ourselves to promoting these values on our campuses and in our communities, and we stand alongside the business, nonprofit, religious, and civic leaders who are doing the same in organizations large and small.

In light of your pledge to be “President for all Americans,” we urge you to condemn and work to prevent the harassment, hate, and acts of violence that are being perpetrated across our nation, sometimes in your name which is now synonymous with our nation’s highest office. In our schools, on job sites and college campuses, on public streets and in coffee shops, members of our communities, our children, our families, our neighbors, our students, and our employees are facing very real threats, and are frightened.

One of the roles of leaders is to protect and empower the most vulnerable. As President-elect, this responsibility rests heavily on you. Let this be a mark of your leadership.

Raymond E. Crossman President Adler University

Mauri Ditzler President Albion College

Mark Zupan President

Jeff Abernathy President Alma College

Biddy Martin President Amherst College

1 William R. Groves Chancellor Antioch University

John M Sullivan President Art Academy of Cincinnati

Paul C. Pribbenow President Augsburg College

Steven Bahls President Augustana College

Marjorie Hass President Austin College

Leon Botstein President Bard College

Mac Powell President Bastyr University

Scott Bierman President Beloit College

Mariko Silver President

David C. Joyce President Brevard College

Kimberly Wright Cassidy President Bryn Mawr College

2 Nancy Blattner President

Donald J. Laackman President Champlain College

Frank G. Pogue Interim President Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

David McInally President Coe College

Brian W. Casey President

Helen J. Streubert President College of Saint Elizabeth

Philip L. Boroughs, S.J. President College of the Holy Cross

Jonathan Brand President Cornell College

Jann Weitzel President Cottey College

Carol Quillen President Davidson College

Mark McCoy President DePauw University

3 Walter M. Kimbrough President Dillard University

MaryAnn Baenninger President Drew University

Donald Eastman President Eckerd College

Carl J Strikwerda President Elizabethtown College

Jake B. Schrum President Emory & Henry College

James A. Anderson Chancellor & Professor of Psychology Fayetteville State University

J. Michael Pressimone President

Daniel Porterfield President Franklin & Marshall College

Elizabeth Davis President Furman University

Janet Morgan Riggs President Gettysburg College

Robert Kenny President Goddard College

4 Mark Scheinberg President Goodwin College

Jose Antonio Bowen President

Raynard S. Kington President Grinnell College

Jane K. Fernandes President Guilford College

Rebecca M. Bergman President Gustavus Adolphus College

John J. "Ski" Sygielski President HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College

Margaret L. Drugovich President

Kimberly Benston President Haverford College

Lori Varlotta President Hiram College

Mark D. Gearan President Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Andrea Chapdelaine President

5 Shirley A. Mullen President

Lisa A. Rossbacher President Humboldt State University

Alison Byerly President Lafayette College

Dan McAlexander President LaGrange College

Michael B. Alexander President Lasell College

Mark Burstein President Lawrence University

Barry Glassner President Lewis & Clark College

Richard Green President Lincoln University, Pennsylvania

Brian F. Linnane, S.J. President Loyola University Maryland

Kenneth R. Garren President Lynchburg College

Brian Rosenberg President Macalester College

6 Stuart Kestenbaum President Maine College of Art

James Gandre President Manhattan School of Music

Kevin F. F. Quigley President Marlboro College

Kerry Walk President Marymount Manhattan College

Laurie Patton President Middlebury College

Bryon Grigsby President

John Silvanus Wilson, Jr. President Morehouse College

David Wilson President Morgan State University

Stanley J. Pritchett, Sr. President Morris Brown College

Sonya Stephens Acting President Mount Holyoke College

Timothy E. Trainor President Mount St. Mary's University

7 John I. Williams, Jr. President Muhlenberg College

Kent Devereaux President New Hampshire Institute of Art

Richard Helldobler Interim President Northeastern Illinois University

Lawrence Schall President Oglethorpe University

David W. Oxtoby President Pomona College

Debbie Sydow President Richard Bland College

Allan Cahoon President and Vice Chancellor Royal Roads University

Rachel Schreiber Interim President San Francisco Art Institute

Karen R. Lawrence President

Tracy Fitzsimmons President Shenandoah University

Susan E. Henking President Shimer College

8 Peg Albert President Siena Heights University

Joe Bertolino President Southern Connecticut State University

David Rees Evans President Southern Vermont College

Edward B. Burger President Southwestern University

John A. Pieper President St. Louis College of Pharmacy

Kevin J. Manning President

Valerie Smith President Swarthmore College

Susan C. Scrimshaw President The Sage Colleges

John M. McCardell, Jr. Vice-Chancellor and President The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee

Joanne Berger-Sweeney President Trinity College (Hartford)

Stephen C. Ainlay President

9 Thomas W. Keefe President University of Dallas

Quint Thurman President University of the Southwest

Jonathan Chenette President

Thomas Christopher Greene President Vermont College of Fine Arts

Scott D. Miller President Virginia Wesleyan College

Tori Haring-Smith President Washington & Jefferson College

Weymouth Spence President Washington Adventist University

Joseph Kline President Watkins College

Jonathan Gibralter President Wells College

Michael S. Roth President Wesleyan University

Dennis Hanno President Wheaton College (Massachusetts)

10 David J. Chard President Wheelock College

Sharon Herzberger President Whittier College

Stephen E. Thorsett President Willamette University

Elizabeth MacLeod Walls President William Jewell College

Adam Falk President Williams College

Barbara K. Mistick President Wilson College

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