Campus News

First Lady Michelle Obama will join Marian Wright Edelman in addressing the Oberlin College Class of 2015 at its Commencement ceremony on Monday, May 25. We are receiving this tremendous honor because a video about our Ninde Scholars program was selected as the winner of the First Lady’s national Near-Peer Mentoring Challenge.

The sixth annual Senior Symposium begins at 1 p.m. on Friday, April 24, 2015, in Craig Lecture Hall. In the days leading up to the event, the Source is sharing a handful of project abstracts written by presenting seniors. This is part 3 of 3.

The sixth annual Senior Symposium begins at 1 p.m. on Friday, April 24, 2015, in Craig Lecture Hall. In the days leading up to the event, the Source is sharing a handful of project abstracts written by presenting seniors. This is part 2 of 3.

Oberlin’s Board of Trustees has approved recommendations to reappoint with continuous tenure 12 assistant professors and promote them to the rank of associate professor. The newly tenured associate professors are: Laura Baudot, Jack Calcut, Julia Christensen, Janet Fiskio, Amy Margaris, Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, Greggor Mattson, Emer O'Dwyer, Tracie Paine, Viplav Saini, Claire T. Solomon, and Natasha Tessone.

The sixth annual Senior Symposium begins at 1 p.m. on Friday, April 24, 2015, in Craig Lecture Hall. In the days leading up to the event, the Source is sharing a handful of project abstracts written by presenting seniors. This is part 1 of 3.

Afia Ofori-Mensa, director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, shares details about STRONG, a new program she and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Tim Elgren are introducing this summer to increase the likelihood that underrepresented and/or first-generation college students will succeed at Oberlin.

The Allen Memorial Art Museum and the Creative Writing Program are asking students, faculty, staff, and members of the greater Oberlin community to submit poems written in response to, describing, or inspired by works of visual art currently on view in the museum. Submissions are due to Jason Trimmer by 5 p.m. on Friday, April 17.

Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times , answers a student’s question following his convocation speech on Tuesday, March 31, in Finney Chapel. A former reporter for...