Campus News

Vivian Seeley retired July 31, 2012, after working 15 years as grill/counter/cashier primarily in the Stevenson, Wilder, and Dascomb dining halls. She joined the staff of Oberlin College in 1997 after

On Sunday, June 2, the Oberlin Community Music School wrapped up its 10th anniversary celebrations with a Mega Musical Mashup that brought Oberlin’s musical organizations to Tappan Square for community merrymaking. Watch a video from the festivities.

There is a high level of civic, social, cultural, and economic activity that goes on in this city of some 8,200 residents, and while it slows down in the summer, it doesn’t stop.

Last month, Federighi Professor of Physics and Astronomy Dan Stinebring traveled to the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia with three Oberlin students. Next

It’s an idyllic June day in Oberlin. While I don’t want to disturb anyone’s spring reverie, I have news about our 2013-14 Convocation series.

Professional and free are two words that don’t often appear together. But they do so repeatedly whenever the subject of conversation is the Oberlin Summer Theater Festival.

I don’t believe any other liberal arts college in this country had such an amazing gathering of academic, intellectual, artistic, musical, and spiritual brilliance at their graduation ceremonies.

Steady rain and unseasonably cool temperatures during Monday’s Commencement Exercises prompted President Krislov to cut his remarks short. Read what he planned to say to the Class of 2013.

“Since I’m a writer,” Tracy Chevalier ’84 told the members of the Class of 2013 in her Commencement address, “I’m going to give you advice in the form of five mantras about writing that I repeat to myself and that you can apply to the novel that is your life.”

View a gallery of photos from Oberlin's 176th Commencement Exercises.More photos of Commencement and the entire Commencement/Reunion Weekend are on flickr.