Williams faculty, staff and students, I am delighted to inform you that Frederick Rudolph ’42 – Class of 1965 Professor of American Culture Gretchen Long and Charles R. Keller Professor of History Eiko Maruko Siniawer ’97 have agreed to serve second terms on my senior staff, as dean of the… Continue reading »
Dear Williams community I hope you are all well as we come to the end of Winter Study. I write today with my summary of last week’s Board of Trustees meeting. The Trustees began their visit by hosting an event where seniors were invited to talk about their time at… Continue reading »
To the Williams community, With deep sadness, I write to tell you that first-year student Alex Kemp died yesterday, after a skiing accident on Monday. I know you will join me in thinking about Alex’s family; his friends, teammates and coaches on the track and cross country teams; his entrymates… Continue reading »
Dear Williams Community, We write with unsettling news. As you may have seen in the media, Black college and high school students around the country have been receiving racist and disparaging text messages over the last few days. Late last night, the college… Continue reading »
To the Williams community, Everyone at the college was sent a Clery timely warning email last night about a hateful incident on campus. I am writing about this and other recent identity-based attacks on community members. We have to resist hatred in all its forms, and these latest incidents are… Continue reading »
To the Williams community, Following is a summary of the Fall 2024 Board of Trustees meeting, held last Friday and Saturday, September 27 and 28. We were joined at this meeting by our newest Board members, Trustees Joel Hellman ’84 and Mary Kipp ’89; Alumni Trustees Cheryl Robinson Ocansey ’85… Continue reading »
Dear Williams students, faculty and staff, As promised, I write today to catch you up on news from the last several months and highlight some of the many, many (many!) programs planned for this fall. It all makes for a long message—evidence of the level of activity in every area… Continue reading »
In October 2023, amidst the violence in the Middle East, I published a campus letter explaining why I was not sending out an institutional statement in response to the tragedy, and why I had concluded that it was unhelpful for me to issue statements from the college in response… Continue reading »
Dear Williams community, Welcome to the fall semester. Whatever your summer entailed, I hope you found opportunities for relaxation and time with loved ones. On this first day of classes I thought I’d take a moment to introduce our newest arrivals and celebrate the first day of the new academic… Continue reading »