Once again, Swarthmore was given the title of the Best Value College by Princeton Review in the publication's ranking of 650 private and public colleges across the country. The college won the same accolade when the "Top 10 Best Value Private Colleges"
Around forty students gathered in Kohlberg last night to meet one of four final candidates being considered to be the new Dean of Students at Swarthmore.
The six Lang Opportunity Scholars from the Class of 2012 are just beginning to work on their projects, which they hope will benefit communities from the Bronx to Kenya, working with topics from living with HIV/AIDS to composting, preventing blindness and sponsoring
On Monday, students and staff gathered in Pearson Hall to reflect on the aftermath of last Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti. At the event, professors, a student, and President Chopp all spoke on what Chopp called a “cataclysmic event" in her online message
Earlier this month, two members of the Dean's Office - Tim Sams and Kelly Wilcox - announced that they would be leaving Swarthmore for positions at NYU Abu Dhabi. They will join former Swarthmore administrators Al Bloom and Jim Larimore, who began
Three hundred students found themselves unable to leave campus by the normal deadline of Saturday afternoon as a blizzard covered the entire East Coast with snow. Dean of Students Garikai Campbell and Housing Coordinator Rachel Head cooked breakfast for those students on
The Board of Managers convened Friday and Saturday to review the Ad-Hoc Committee’s proposed $8 million budget cuts, eventually approving the cuts in full. The Ad-Hoc Committee warned that, given the 16.8% loss to endowment during the 2008-09 fiscal year, approximately $8