Joyce McConnell is the first woman president of Colorado State University and is proud to currently lead one of the most diverse administrative teams in higher education. She is also proud to embody her commitment to sustainability as co-chair of the advisory board of the Salazar Center for North American Conservation and to embody her commitment to our international, immigrant, DACA, and undocumented students as a member of the steering committee of the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration. Over the last two years, President McConnell has overseen a successful return to in-person academics and operations at Colorado State University.  What she is most excited about going forward is the Courageous Strategic Transformation of CSU that our community has designed together. Unlike many institutional strategic plans, Courageous Strategic Transformation does not call out diversity as a single track in the plan.  Instead, as McConnell has said publicly, “Inclusive excellence is intentionally woven throughout, not standing alone, because we believe it should inform everything we do. This is a part of our fabric and fundamental to everyone’s work at CSU.