education

Student-run Asian American studies course will be offered in the fall

April 26, 2018October 25, 2019 Trina Paul 0 Comment asian american studies, education, ethnic studies, SAO

Earlier this semester, Swarthmore Asian Organization announced that the college will be offering the student-run course “Introduction to Asian American

Arts & Features Features

Power and Pedagogy in the Chester-Upland School District: A Conversation with Tommy Bothwell ’20

April 3, 2018April 4, 2018 Angus Lam 1 Comment chester, CUSD, education, schools

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As

Letter to the Editor Opinion

Letter to the Editor: Why Teach for America

April 20, 2017 0 Comment alum, careers, education, letter to the editor, Teach for America

Shawn Sheehan is a career teacher from Oklahoma who cares about her students, but simply can no longer put her

Campus Journal

Machuca-Galvez must stay: students hope to ensure return of professor

February 23, 2017 Shreya Chattopadhyay 1 Comment education, Latin American Studies, Latino Studies, Latinx

Karen Avila ’20 enrolled in Professor Milton Machuca-Galvez’ “Drugs, Gangs, and US Imperialism” class during her first semester of college.

Op-Eds Opinion

Why Mathematical Reasoning Should Be a Part of Civic Education

February 2, 2017 Zhicheng Fan 0 Comment debate, education, math, reasoning

We now live in a world where reason and truth are under siege on a daily basis. The Economist declares

Columns Opinion Satire

Students haunted by their future selves for taking five credits

January 26, 2017 Nagyon Kim 0 Comment CAPS, education, overwork, satire

With few days left of the Add/Drop period, students have reported odd hallucinations to the Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS),

Columns Sports

Do athletes get the same education as non-athletes?

October 27, 2016 Jack Corkery 0 Comment education, sports, Student-Athletes

This past weekend, I led prospective student-athletes and their parents on campus tours as part of the Future Garnet Baseball

Op-Eds Opinion

Questioning the ‘elite’ education

October 20, 2016 Brittni Teresi 0 Comment education, elite institution, self-care, swarthmore

I’ll never forget the bursting excitement I felt when leaving home last year, anxiously anticipating life-changing college experiences to come.

Arts

Blake Oetting meets Medieval Art at the Met

September 8, 2016 Emily Ferrari 0 Comment art history, arts, curatorial, education, internship, museums, The Met Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This summer, as Swarthmore students left campus to pursue various jobs and internships, art history major Blake Oetting ’18 traveled

Op-Eds Opinion

각양각색 (各樣各色): Of Many Shapes and Colors

March 24, 2016 Christine H. Kim 0 Comment asian, diversity, education

I chose Swarthmore College because they boasted about diversity. Diverse identities, races, sexual orientations, commitments—this was, as it probably is