In this issue, we see that passion for engagement and educational equity in the vision of Dean Jon E. Cawthorne,
the head of our School of Information Sciences, who has taken on the monumental task of transforming
our library system in the midst of the Information Age. We hear that determination in the words of Billicia
Hines, the director of Wayne State’s Black Theatre and Dance Collective. We see the outcomes of that work in
the accomplishments of small businesses like Detroit Dough and neighborhood-based nonprofits like Detroit
Hives, which are run by former WSU students as deeply devoted to their crafts as to their communities.
