Campus News

On April 27, 2017, Oberlin College is looking for 1,000 donors from the Oberlin community to go All in for Oberlin! If we reach this goal, Chris Canavan ’84 has promised to match every gift with an additional $100 dollars.

The Board of Trustees’ third meeting of the academic year took place in Oberlin on March 2nd and 3rd. Among the Trustees' meetings and activities was a dinner with Launch U participants and Stamp scholars, a “mini-retreat” with Student Senate to explore Board and College governance, and progress reports from Strategic Planning Implementation Working Groups.

The Cleveland native began her dancing career at the age of three, and while she started out in classical ballet, she later transitioned into the modern dance and Afro-modern styles during her teenage

Jazz trumpet player and award-winning composer Michael Philip Mossman '82 returned to Oberlin for a residency in March. Mossman, director of jazz studies at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens

Six faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Conservatory of Music received an Excellence in Teaching Award for the 2015-2016 academic year.

For the first time in program history, the women’s track and field team claimed an outright title at the North Coast Athletic Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships. The team secured six

Ombudsperson Kimberly Jackson Davidson sits down with President Krislov to discuss the role of the Yeworkwha Belachew Center for Dialogue and the Office of the Ombudsperson.

Carl Peterson, emeritus professor of English at Oberlin College and former department chair, died on March 1, in Oberlin. He was 86 years old.

Starting in the new year, the search for a new VP/Dean of Admissions/Financial Aid began again in earnest. Ads for the position have been placed in a variety of outlets, with our consultants at Witt-Kieffer actively recruiting and building the prospective candidate pool.

Oscar-nominated actress Margaret Avery starred in vignettes of Tennessee Williams' American classic, The Glass Menagerie. Directed by Associate Professor of Theater Justin Emeka '95, the play