“Today at noon, our country demonstrates the strength of its ideals even in the most tumultuous and perilous times. On this unusually consequential Inauguration Day, The City University of New York welcomes the new administration of President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Vice President Kamala Harris, and their promise of leadership committed to social justice, public education, and leading the nation out of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. Our new President is himself a graduate of public higher education. Our new Vice President today breaks barriers of gender and race and is the first graduate of an Historically Black University to take the oath of national elective office. And our First Lady is a lifelong educator who for nearly three decades has taught in community colleges and plans to continue doing so while in the White House. We look ahead to a new day of equality, justice and peace for our country.”
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