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title: "Pines to Prioritize Excellence, Inclusiveness"
date: 2020-07-01T13:00:00-04:00
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# Pines to Prioritize Excellence, Inclusiveness

*July 1, 2020* — by [Maryland Today Staff](/author/maryland-today-staff)


> New President Outlines Vision for Transformed University

[Pines to Prioritize Excellence, Inclusiveness](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ7dctxKphM)



In a video to mark his first day as the University of Maryland’s new president, Darryll J. Pines outlined a pair of interlocking missions: to strengthen teaching and learning, research, innovation, the arts and athletics at UMD; and to create an inclusive, multicultural campus environment.

“As an institution of higher education, we have a responsibility to meet these global challenges,” Pines said, referencing what he called the two pandemics of COVID-19 and violence against the Black community. “And in that obligation I see the opportunity to reinvent the modern public research university.”


**Topics:** [Campus & Community](https://today.umd.edu/tags/campus-community)


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