The solidarity our students and other community members showed yesterday for their peers on other campuses was an inspiring demonstration of support. It was also an important reminder of all the work still to be done—here and everywhere—to create a society that’s free of discrimination, in which all members are valued and have equal opportunities to thrive. Continue reading »
Williams is committed to sustainability in all its many dimensions. Continue reading »
To the Williams Community, Today is a great day for Williams and an even better day for The College of Wooster. That’s because the people at Wooster have made the extremely wise decision to ask Sarah Bolton to be their next president—and she has made them very lucky… Continue reading »
Ours is an institution of higher learning; such learning cannot occur without broad and enthusiastic exposure to a wide range of ideas and perspectives. Continue reading »
“Need-blindness,” taken literally, is actually a narrow and misleading construct. There’s a passiveness to the term that implies, quite wrongly, that we can address the issue of college accessibility simply by turning a blind eye to students’ financial circumstances. Rather, what’s needed is for colleges to act affirmatively to bring socioeconomic diversity to our campuses. Continue reading »
To the Williams Community, Williams—the very idea of it, as well as this beautiful campus—has endured for more than 200 years. And for all of those years since our founding, each time we’ve welcomed a new group of first-year students and started the semester with great excitement and anticipation, the… Continue reading »
To the Williams Community, I am delighted to announce that Professor Gretchen Long has accepted our invitation to become director of the Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford University (WEPO). Her term of service will be two years, starting July 1, 2016. Gretchen has been a member of the History… Continue reading »
In marking four decades of coeducation, what we celebrate most deeply aren’t the ways in which Williams has changed women, but rather how women have changed Williams. Continue reading »
It’s about taking every available opportunity to deepen our understanding of others in our community, rather than insisting on conformity to familiar ways of being that make us comfortable. Continue reading »
To the Williams Community, I am very excited to announce that after a national search the college has appointed Leticia Smith-Evans to the position of vice president for institutional diversity and equity. She will assume the position on July 1. Leticia brings considerable experience in working to expand diversity… Continue reading »
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