Campus News

Katie Gravens and Emily Speerbrecher have been appointed to new roles overseeing the college's layered health care strategy in responding to COVID-19.

In fall 2020, the college will launch new software that will be used to communicate and manage connectivity with students. The software platform, Engage, is a communication and relationship management tool that will improve the student experience with academic advising, support student academic success, and make communications between students and the college more efficient and effective.

It is hard to believe this will be my final "President’s Desk" column. But in August, I will become president of Pace University in New York. It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as your president.

After a decade of leadership, Marvin Krislov will step down as the 14th president of Oberlin College and Conservatory on June 30, 2017.

Marvin Krislov, the president of Oberlin College, announced today that he has agreed to become president of Pace University in New York City, on August 1, 2017. Mr. Krislov, who has served as Oberlin’s 14th president since 2007, had previously announced he would be leaving Oberlin at the end of the current academic year.

The Strategic Planning Steering Committee has posted “The Oberlin College Strategic Plan 2016-2021: Institutional transformation through an inclusive approach to academic and musical excellence” to the Strategic Planning website.

Nancy Schrom Dye, the 13th president of Oberlin College and a historian of modern America, died October 28, 2015, at her home in Lakewood, Ohio, after a lengthy illness. She was 68 years old.

President Krislov (left) talks with Aaron Appel ’16 at Cowhaus Creamery on October 12 during Ice Cream with Krislov. Nearly 300 students ventured downtown to enjoy one free scoop of artisan ice cream

The 11-week President's Public Service Fellow program provides funding for students to work full time with a local nonprofit or public sector agency on intensive service projects that engage and empower area teens and young adults.

Given the decision to increase tuition at Oberlin College and Conservatory by 3.9 percent for the 2015-2016 academic year, we continue to update and engage the community in a discussion of our shared concerns about the affordability of an Oberlin education and our commitment to socioeconomic diversity.