Campus News

More than 7,000 students applied to be considered for the Class of 2019. Acceptance letters were sent out at the end of last week, and admitted students and their families will soon visit the college and conservatory for the annual “All Roads Lead to Oberlin” events. I thank all of you in advance for being a welcoming, caring, and engaged community.

Multi-instrumentalist, composer/arranger, and producer Gonzalo Grau comes to Oberlin Thursday, April 2, as part of the Performance and Improvisation (PI) Series. Grau will lead a master class from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Clonick Hall and will perform from 10 to 11:30 p.m. in the Cat in the Cream.

A symposium will be held in memory of Jesse Rowsell, assistant professor of chemistry, from 1:30 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 4. An avid hiker and lover of the outdoors, 37-year-old Rowsell died on a hiking trip near his hometown in northern Ontario on January 30, 2015.

Oberlin Heritage Center has selected the Bonner Center for Service and Learning’s Community Service Work-Study Program (CSWSP) as the recipient of the Business Leader Service Award as part of its 14th annual Community Awards.

In 2014, Meredith Raimondo was appointed special assistant to the president for diversity, equity, and inclusion and Title IX coordinator. In the first ever President’s Desk Q&A, I sat down with Meredith to discuss Title IX at Oberlin: what it is and who it covers; the college’s new policy; the people involved in reporting, investigations, and hearings; and more.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Cynthia Taylor, along with several students studying computer science, attended the Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing (OCWiC) conference February 20 and 21 in Sandusky, Ohio. At the conference, Christine Antonsen was one of two students awarded $1,000 to attend the upcoming Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, the world’s largest gathering of women technologists.