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DISCOURSE
Positive Signs in Trying Times
University of the Pacific President Christopher Callahan
on leading an educational institution during an unprecedented time
INTERVIEW BY Sena Christian PHOTO BY Ryan Angel Meza
As president of University of the Pacific, Christopher
Callahan is overseeing the institution’s
respond to the coronavirus pandemic,
which included developing plans for the campuses
to go nearly all remote in the fall. UOP has its main
campus in Stockton, McGeorge School of Law in
Sacramento and the Arthur A. Dugoni School of
Dentistry in San Francisco (along with other graduate
programs in the latter two cities). Callahan
became president July 1. Comstock’s spoke with
Callahan about leading the private university
during an unprecedented time.
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