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 …
StuCo discussed the bike share program, problems with cleanup following Saturday's Halloween party, and plans to investigate the costs associated with allowing students to use meal points in the ville.
The Writing Center has launched a new program on writing workshops in Chester at the College Access Center, which provides a variety of free services for preparing students for college. In this new project, three Writing Associates conduct weekly workshops with a
Dare 2 Soar, which provides tutoring and mentoring to Chester youth, has discontinued their Columbus Elementary School site, while trying to launch a new site at Chester High School.
And here we have it: answers to your most fruitful questions -- about the Crum Regatta, classes, syllabi, and where to make out -- straight from our registrar’s often lushly mustachioed mouth.
Painter, writer and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak spoke last week on his past and his art currently being exhibited in the List Gallery. Having spend his adolescence witnessing genocide, Bak’s works focus on the impact of the Holocaust on the Jewish people
Photos from the last week, including more Coming Out Week events, a master class on classical Cambodian dance technique, "culture night" in Kitao, and more.
On Monday, George Akerlof delivered a lecture in Sci 101 on new methods of economic thinking. He argued that the current economic crisis has shown economics needs to rethink its basic assumptions.
“Would Walter Cronkite Have Tweeted?” Cindi Leive, ’88, editor-in-chief of Glamour magazine asked family, friends and alumni at Garnet Weekend. Leive gave this year’s Thomas B. McCabe Lecture on “Old Media, New Media and What You Should Know about Everything You Read.”