Tour guides are one of the key bridges between prospective students and the Lafayette College experience. But what if your experience isn’t relatable to the majority of prospective students? For several former tour guides who joined the program with the goal of sharing their experiences with a more diverse population of prospective students, appealing to a […]
The Board of Trustees met this past weekend to discuss future plans for the college, coming just in time for the grand opening of the Rockwell Integrated Sciences Center. Board members and various campus committees gathered to discuss future capital projects, the tuition increase, and to celebrate the opening of Rockwell, the largest capital project […]
Alisha Ghai ’20 will be serving the campus community for the 2019-2020 academic year in response to a recent leadership shift in the Lafayette College Student Government. Ghai is filling in the shoes of Fray Familia ’20, who announced that she was stepping down from the presidency at the first student government meeting on September […]
The Rho chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) was temporarily suspended from issuing bids last week due to an undisclosed reported violation of school policy. The sanction was lifted following an initial investigation, according to Vice President of Student Life Annette Diorio. The report that led to the suspension was originally listed as “hazing” in […]
The first ever annual report from the Office of Educational Equity, published with the effort of increasing transparency, revealed 52 instances of sexual misconduct reported to the college for the 2018-2019 school year, more than double the number reported in 2015. The purpose of the document, according to Jessica Brown, Director of Educational Equity and […]
The Board of Trustees voted to fund the McCartney Street dorm project via a student housing development firm last May, meaning students will be leasing dorms from an outside company rather than the college, according to Vice President of Finance Roger Demareski. In a public-private partnership (P3) deal, the college will continue to own the […]
This semester, the college welcomes ten new tenure-track professors to campus. According to Provost John Meier, three of the ten tenure-track positions created this year were made possible by the college’s strategic direction, a ten-year plan that includes increasing the student body population by 400 and adding 40 new faculty members. The purpose of the […]
Lafayette’s campus received a major makeover this summer while students were away, and more work is underway for the coming semester. The Rockwell Integrated Sciences Center (RISC) is now open for classes for the first time since construction began in 2017, and numerous other construction and renovation projects were also completed during the break. Much […]
Reeve Lanigan ’19 grew up learning how to “be an advocate” for herself. Now, she will go on to graduate school to learn how to advocate for others. She has been inspired to take this career path through her involvement at Lafayette. Lanigan is this year’s Pepper Prize winner, awarded annually to the senior who […]
Connor Burwell ‘19, like many other students, has seen the emergence of new structures and plans during his time on campus. Unlike others, however, Burwell has played a key role as a conduit from the students to the administration as the expansion plan, or the growth and affordability initiative, progresses. Burwell served as the first […]
In a 1779 letter, George Washington tasked Major General John Sullivan with “the total destruction and devastation of [American Indian] settlements and the capture of as many prisoners of every age and sex as possible.” Two-hundred-and-forty years later, Lafayette’s campus is still home to a monument commemorating Sullivan’s bloody march, as well as a parking […]
The college is considering funding the new McCartney Street Dorms through a student housing development firm. If the Board of Trustees approves this model, known as a Public-Private-Partnership or P-three deal, students housed in the dorms would lease their dorms from the firm, not from the college. Vice President of Finance and Administration Roger Demareski said […]
According to the Pew Research Center, over six in 10 Americans currently support the legalization of marijuana, including 75% of millennials. Despite this budding support, colleges located in states that have legalized marijuana continue to have prohibitive policies on campus. In Pennsylvania, medical marijuana has been legal since 2016. A recent poll from Franklin & Marshall […]
Due to low attendance and lack of suggestions from attending faculty members, the chair of the Faculty Compensation Committee (FCC), government and law professor Helena Silverstein, instead chose to focus on the research they have been doing on retirement policies during Tuesday’s open meeting. The meeting is typically held to gather feedback from faculty members […]
