Campus News

This month brings a myriad of events to campus—events that facilitate student, faculty, and staff engagement with some of the most complex issues of our time.

Happening April 11-15, the Oberlin Switchboard Ask Me Anything gives students the opportunity to interact with more than 40 alumni representing a handful of industries.

A memorial for junior Sam Harel Price (March 15, 1995- March 24, 2016) will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 14, in the Root Room. The memorial is open to all and will include reflections by

Senior Elana Meyers sees backpacks just about everywhere on campus: hanging from the backs of chairs, strewn on the library floor, serving as pillows in Wilder Bowl. And seeing so many backpacks made

Students perform on March 30 in Finney Chapel for the 20th annual Colors of Rhythm (CoR) production. Since its inception, CoR has provided a forum for artists and performers of color to honor and

Happening throughout April, the Still Oberlin campaign encourages alumni to visit go.oberlin.edu/still, make a gift to the Oberlin Annual Fund, and request a campus photo of their choice.

Salvatore Champagne, Angela Cheng, Alvin Chow, Richard Hawkins, Geoffrey Pingree, Eve Sandberg, Haewon Song, and Sylvia Watanabe have been promoted to the rank of professor.

Every year as the All Roads Lead to Oberlin admissions events begin, I am reminded just how friendly, warm, and open Oberlin’s students, faculty, staff, and residents are.

Oberlin’s Board of Trustees has approved recommendations to reappoint with continuous tenure five assistant professors and promote them to the rank of associate professor. The newly tenured associate professors are: Justin Emeka, Timothy LeFebvre, Christina Neilson, Darko Opoku, and Ellen Wurtzel.

“Oberlin College Strategic Plan 2016-2021: Institutional transformation through an inclusive approach to academic and musical excellence” was approved by the General Faculty on February 4, 2016, and by the Board of Trustees on March 4, 2016.