By Eli Hughes–
Louisville-area university presidents co-signed a letter to their students and community members on June 3, addressing the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery.
“We, as leaders of higher education institutions in greater Louisville and Kentuckiana, are aware both of the promise of higher education as a transformative force in society, and of the problematic history of these very institutions in perpetuating racial inequity,” the presidents said in the letter.
They went on to pledge to five actions that they could take as leaders of their institutions:
- “We pledge to educate ourselves and our own college and university communities to recognize and work against structural racism.