Dean of Admissions explains how Swarthmore recruits and enrolls students while sustaining its test-optional policy amid national debates over standardized testing.
In this special Final Exams edition of Swat Says, students discuss their plans for winter break, reveal their most dreaded upcoming finals, and share their thoughts on the Swarthmore Marriage Pact.
Nayla Punjabi '26 shares her experiences at Middlebury's Experiential Learning Conference, where herself and two other Swarthmore students learned about systems mapping, a technique which encourages a holistic and strategic approach to problem-solving.
Genine Collins ’27 is a force to be reckoned with in the pool. On Nov. 8, the junior swimmer broke Swarthmore and Centennial Conference records in the 50 freestyle with a time of 23.25, beating out her previous 23.30 school record. For
Track and Field: On Friday, Dec 10., Swarthmore track and field traveled to Lancaster, PA, to compete in the Diplomat Open hosted by Franklin & Marshall College. The Garnet were one of fifteen colleges represented in the indoor meet, the first of
The National Hockey League’s (NHL) opening day was Oct. 7 this season. As you may know, the NHL sucks the last ounce of consumerism out of sports fans by making their season span six months of 82 games per team. In the
Recently, I have been conscientious of presence. The way one holds themselves. The way one walks with purpose. The way one eats alone in the glowing sunlight. Before college, I thought if one was by themself, it meant that they were lonely.
The second in a series of conversations with alumni, Sara Sargent ’07 is currently a senior executive editor at Penguin Random House. Like last week’s Grace Dignazio ’22, she’s pursued a career around writing, though the dates and details differ slightly …
Swarthmore forward Danielle Tocchet '08 was selected Centennial Conference Offensive Player of the Week, as announced on Oct. 2. The senior posted both game-winners for the Garnet (7-0-0, 3-0-0 CC) last week, increasing her career total to 17.
Later this week the Large-Scale Events Committee is expected to announce that The Roots, a Philadelphia-based alternative hip-hop group, will play at Swarthmore in November.
With over 50 clubs and organizations at Swarthmore and a $1.3 billion endowment, we figure that at least a few would have cool things to share with the rest of [...]
This past weekend, members of Swarthmore's Board of Managers gathered for their annual fall meeting. Among the issues to be dealt with over the weekend, as many students were aware, [...]
Swarthmore associate linguistics professor David Harrison has become somewhat of a celebrity in recent weeks, receiving press from NPR, the Colbert Report, the New York Times, and many well-known foreign publications for his ongoing efforts to call attention to the burgeoning dilemma
The Forum for Free Speech [FFS] is the organization which, according to their charter, distributes money from the Student Budget Committee in order to organize "spoken-word events on Swarthmore's campus." [...]
Council realizes that there's confusion around the plan to move events from the Reserved Students Digest to the spiffy new calendar, and is planning on having a forum showing how [...]