Dear Hollins community,

I am delighted to share with you our Transforming Learning, Transforming Lives: The Levavi Oculos Strategic Plan in this issue of the Hollins magazine. What you will encounter in these pages reflects more than 18 months of work and engagement.

To create such a bold and transformational plan requires the work of many. I want to extend my most heartfelt gratitude to the on-campus community, led by our strategic planning teams, for their many hours of engagement. Students, faculty, and staff shared many hours visioning, planning, and collaborating.

I am truly grateful to the many alumnae/i who shared their hopes, fears, wisdom, and insights as we crisscrossed the country for presidential roundtables and various conversations.

A special debt of gratitude is owed to the Hollins Board of Trustees who, as my thoughts partners and coleaders, learned together and issued a bold charge to me and the Hollins community to draft this plan. I am equally grateful for their commitment to supporting the plan and the deep trust they have offered our community.

And I want to thank those donors who have already invested in the plan and are committed to ensuring we can live up to our promises. Thank you for supporting our community and our future.

As you read the feature story about this plan, you will see that it is a collective tapestry. The plan reflects the hopes and aspirations of many and is not a self-portrait of any one person. It is all of us at our best.

Thank you for trusting me with the leadership of Hollins and for supporting the Transforming Learning, Transforming Lives: The Levavi Oculos Strategic Plan.

Levavi Oculos,

President Mary Dana Hinton