• Buck comes to the UO from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he is currently the vice president for development and alumni relations.
• I am pleased to share that the University of Oregon will join the Big Ten Conference in August of 2024, and thrilled we have the opportunity to join the nation's preeminent academic-athletic conference.
• I am thrilled to have arrived on campus and to begin serving as your president. Please join me at a meet-and-greet reception Wednesday, July 12, at 3:30 p.m., on the EMU Green.
• The UO will continue to seek to attract and retain underrepresented and underserved students while providing them with equitable and inclusive access to higher education.
• As the 2022–23 academic year comes to a close, we have much to celebrate. In a few short weeks, incoming President Karl Scholz will begin his tenure, and we share in his excitement to lead the UO into its next ambitious era.