To the Williams Community, Before the academic year draws to a close, I’d like to draw attention to several of many significant developments that have occurred in recent months. Perhaps most visible is the tantalizing emergence of our new library. It’s quite dramatic. What you can’t see from the outside… Continue reading »
To the Williams Community, Congratulations are due Wendy Raymond, professor of biology, who’s been named vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Davidson College. She begins this summer. For more details, you can read the full announcement and press release… Continue reading »
From the Spring 2013 Williams Magazine Animating the past is important, especially with a history as rich as Williams’ and particularly when passing major milestones. As readers of the magazine know, the college is experiencing the 50th anniversary of a decade of extraordinary change that,… Continue reading »
What an exciting future it will be for the university and for Ed, who brings to this position not only his extensive experience at Williams and elsewhere, but also his great passion for innovation in teaching and learning. Continue reading »
To the Williams Community, In thinking about this spring semester, there’s no better place to start than Claiming Williams. What a marvelous event—people from across campus engaged together with topics of such importance to us all and to the college. Every event I attended or heard about was either full… Continue reading »
From the Fall 2012 Williams Magazine Colleges are, perhaps more than anything, places of intellectual excitement. Since I last wrote in this column, my field of particle physics experienced one of its most riveting moments in the past half-century. That was when scientists at the… Continue reading »
To the Williams Community, I write with the wonderful news that Nancy Roseman, professor of biology, has been named the 28th president of Dickinson College. The announcement can be seen here. Nancy is certainly well prepared for this position, with her… Continue reading »
To the Williams Community, I write with the great news that the Weston Field renovation project is now going ahead. Those of you who were at Williams in 2008 recall that one of the first steps the college took in response to the global financial crisis was to suspend two… Continue reading »
To the Williams Community, In this case, what’s coming around again is the wonderful cycle of the academic year. Welcome to those of you who are joining our campus for the first time, and welcome back to all the rest of you. This semester, even more than usual, will be… Continue reading »
Published in the Wall Street Journal (Aug. 28 online and Aug. 29 print edition) ‘Crowd-sourcing’ the grading of an essay online is no substitute for thoughtful evaluation by a trained educator. As classes resume on our… Continue reading »
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