The College received a $25 million gift to support the construction of the first purpose-built site for the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA), the renewal of athletics and wellbeing facilities, and the funding of the all-grant financial aid program, it announced in a press release on April 16.
Jeff Palmer will step in as the next director of Campus Safety Services (CSS) on July 17, Vice President for Finance and Operations Mike Wagner announced in an all-campus email on April 11. He will replace Deputy Director for Operations Alison Warner, who assumed the role of interim director of CSS after Eric Sullivan resigned last summer, according to a Daily Messages announcement from Wagner on June 21, 2023.
Beginning with the next admissions cycle, Princeton will target a student body in which 70 percent of students are eligible for financial aid and at least 22 percent are Pell Grant-eligible, the university announced on March 26. Princeton’s board of trustees set the new enrollment goals for low- and middle-income students following a review by The Ad Hoc Committee on Undergraduate Admission Policy, which the board of trustees established to examine undergraduate admissions in July 2023.
Mayor Kathy Sheehan of Albany, N.Y., delivered the lecture at the Center for Environmental Studies’ (CES) weekly Log Lunch last Friday, April 19. In her talk, entitled “Climate Justice: A Case Study on Creating Affordable Renewable Energy in a Disadvantaged Neighborhood,” Sheehan discussed the city’s efforts to improve sustainability and renewable energy while mitigating cost burden concerns.
Faith Ringgold, a renowned multimedia artist and author, died on April 12 at the age of 93. Ringgold was most famously known for her signature pictorial “story quilts” that often addressed issues of race, gender, class, and family. Ringgold’s quilt, “100 Years at Williams College 1889-1989” — which was commissioned for the 100th anniversary of the graduation of the College’s first known Black graduate, Gaius C. Bolin, Class of 1889 — will soon be installed at the newly-renovated Davis Center.
Last weekend, the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (OIDEI), the ’68 Center for Career Exploration, the Office of Alumni Engagement, and the Davis Center held a series of events in conjunction with Bolin Legacy Mentorship Weekend — an alum engagement weekend that honors the legacy of Gaius Charles Bolin Sr., Class of 1889, the first Black graduate of the College — to celebrate the reopening of the DC’s new building complex.
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) held events on Friday and Saturday to advocate for a new set of demands, written in collaboration with Jews for Justice (J4J), regarding the College’s endowment and investment policies.
During a discussion at the Faculty Meeting on April 10, faculty were split by a memorandum submitted by student members of the Committee on Educational Affairs (CEA) that proposed a policy for a pilot program of mandatory Credit/No Credit (C/NC) grading system for first-year students during their first semester.
John Hyde ’56, professor of history emeritus, died on March 28 at the age of 93. During his 36 years in the College’s faculty, he served as dean of first-year students from 1963 to 1967 and dean of the college from 1967 to 1970. Family members, colleagues, and former students remember him as an active figure in College life — a rigorous teacher, strong supporter of College athletics, and a caring presence in the lives of those who knew him.
The College’s comprehensive fee for the 2024-25 academic year will be an all-time high of $85,820 — a figure that includes tuition, housing, and personal expenses — marking a 5-percent increase from the 2023-24 fee.
The Junior Advisor (JA) cohort to the Class of 2028 will comprise 35 students — the smallest cohort of JAs in recent years. Despite the small cohort and uncertainty surrounding the program in recent weeks following mass resignations from the Junior Advisor Advisory Board (JAAB) — a group of former and current JAs elected to train and support JAs — College administrators said they remain confident that they will be able to provide a full experience for first-years and JAs next year.
The suit, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on March 24, alleges that Vidino, the director of the Program on Extremism at GWU, as well as other defendants, received compensation from the United Arab Emirates in exchange for “concoct[ing] and widely publiciz[ing] a false narrative accusing Hafez of terrorist ties and Muslim Brotherhood associations despite the fact that Hafez had no credible associations with any radicalized Islamists or the Muslim Brotherhood.”
