Messages from the Executive Board

Fall Quarter Plan & Announcement update Good afternoon, Chairs, President’s Council, and IMC, As you know, we are preparing to announce the basic framework for how we plan to deliver courses [...]

PGIAA condemns the ruthless aggression and baseless invasion of Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin. As we write this, the capital city of Kyiv, a historic, sophisticated European city [...]

Pacifica Campus Reopening Update – Winter Quarter Announcement Dear Pacifica Students, I send this campus reopening update hoping you are healthy and managing well in the new year and start [...]

Dear Pacifica Students, Greetings.  We send you this message with a certain urgency, as we are entering the holiday season. Public health experts anticipate the increase in COVID-19 cases to [...]

Statement by Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association (PGIAA) Regarding the Mass Shooting in Atlanta, Georgia on 17 March 2021 Earlier this week we witnessed a horrific targeted shooting in [...]

Breath and Identity:   What White Institutions Fail to Understand, Including Our Own  Dr. Leslie Shore Mythological Studies    Remember My Name in Africa, was Kossola. For George Floyd Whose [...]

A Statement from the Board of Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association    We as a cultural group of Africanist people have been in an intergenerational struggle for our lives that does not [...]

Pacifica Graduate Institute:  Statement on Addressing Systemic Racism At Pacifica Graduate Institute, we are deeply distressed and aggrieved by the senseless, on-going violence directed at black [...]

PGIAA President Harry Grammer – George Floyd Statement “The death of George Floyd in the wake of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Botham Jean and hundreds of recent others is [...]

Update from the President – COVID-19   Dear Pacifica Students, The last several weeks have been filled with growing anxiety with the disruptive impact of COVID-19 across the country. [...]

Greetings Dear Alumni/ae, Today is summer solstice when the sun shines longest and the year reaches its apex. It reminds me of some lines from a lovely poem by e.e. cummings entitled I Thank You [...]