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Eliminating Letter Grades for Spring 2020: How It Happened

Skip to: Student Response | The Deliberation Process | After the Vote On Apr. 16, roughly one month after the college evacuated its students and transitioned to remote learning in response to the COVID-19 crisis, a faculty vote changed the temporary grading

April 30, 2020

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Tale of administrative bloat does not match up

As undergraduate tuition costs continue to rise and adjunct professors represent a larger portion of college faculties, talk of a problem called “administrative bloat” is increasingly common on college and university campuses across the country. In The Fall of the Faculty, Johns

April 30, 2015

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College will begin “Inside-Out” class at state prison in Chester

Across the U.S., many colleges and universities are establishing programs aimed at spreading resources of higher education to individuals serving sentences in the U.S. federal prison system. In the past month, the academic programs at New York University, the University of Notre

April 2, 2015

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Admission process discriminatory, some say

A New York Times editorial published last Sunday asserted that college applications that ask about an applicant’s criminal history are unfairly prejudicial in their deterrence of qualified individuals who pose no threat to campus safety. According to the editorial, questions like the

March 26, 2015

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Penn Law School faculty, students clash over adjudication policies

Members of the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s faculty published an open letter criticizing the university’s new processes for investigating and adjudicating sexual assault last week. The 16 Penn faculty members who signed the letter (nearly one-third of the law school’s tenured

February 26, 2015

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Bryn Mawr clarifies stance towards trans applicants

The Chair of Bryn Mawr College’s Board of Trustees, Arlene Gibson, announced in a community-wide email two weeks ago that the Board had approved a working group’s recommendation to examine and clarify the college’s stance towards trans, intersex, non-binary, and gender non-conforming

February 19, 2015

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Dartmouth to ban hard alcohol, pledging process

Dartmouth College will ban hard liquor, end pledging at fraternities and sororities, and institute a mandatory four-year sexual violence prevention program at the beginning of next year. Dartmouth President Philip Hanlon announced the planned changes in a speech to the community last

February 19, 2015

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Varo Duffins begins first semester as director of financial aid

Shortly before the end of last semester, Vice President for Finance and Administration Greg Brown announced that Varo L. Duffins would replace Laura Talbot as the college’s new director of financial aid, starting in the spring of 2015. Duffins comes from Franklin

January 29, 2015

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Outrage after Bryn Mawr invites students on high BMI list to take weight loss class

Last Friday, several Bryn Mawr students received a personally addressed email from the Bryn Mawr health center. Bearing the subject line “Give a HOOT,” the email invited students to sign up for a weight loss program that was eligible for P.E. credit

January 29, 2015

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NYTimes College Access Index calculation methods may be misleading

Swarthmore College was placed low a College Access Index in “Top Colleges that Enroll Rich, Middle Class and Poor,” a New York Times article by David Leonhardt that was published last month. While the methodology may prove to be misleading, the fact

October 30, 2014

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Bryn Mawr campus roiled by Confederate flag, Mason-Dixon line in dormitory

Over the course of the past ten days, an incident involving two Bryn Mawr college students has developed into a multi-day campuswide movement against racial discrimination. The series of events began when the two Bryn Mawr students in question flew the Confederate

September 25, 2014

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Eliminating Letter Grades for Spring 2020: How It Happened

Tale of administrative bloat does not match up

College will begin “Inside-Out” class at state prison in Chester

Admission process discriminatory, some say

Penn Law School faculty, students clash over adjudication policies

Bryn Mawr clarifies stance towards trans applicants

Dartmouth to ban hard alcohol, pledging process

Varo Duffins begins first semester as director of financial aid

Outrage after Bryn Mawr invites students on high BMI list to take weight loss class

NYTimes College Access Index calculation methods may be misleading

Bryn Mawr campus roiled by Confederate flag, Mason-Dixon line in dormitory

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