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In 2010, a young Zohran Kwame Mamdani ’14 stepped foot on Bowdoin’s campus as a first-year student, and now, just 15 years later, he is the Democratic mayoral nominee for New York City, the largest city in the United States.…
Majors have soared and declined in enrollment over the last 25 years at Bowdoin, changing how students engage with the liberal arts education. The Bowdoin Orient compiled data from 1999-2024 to understand trends in major enrollment and gather perspectives of …
In the month since President Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, a flurry of executive orders with implications for higher education have left the campus community wondering about potential impacts to the College.
These orders include sudden freezes on federal …
The College is embarking on a new donor-funded hiring initiative to add nine new faculty positions to academic departments with high student demand over the next two years.
Two positions will go to the Department of Computer Science and one …
Almost three decades ago, the College banned fraternities from campus, transforming social life at Bowdoin and creating the College House System. One major reason for the ban, as cited by the commission that recommended fraternity abolition, was a toxic drinking …
In August 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, days before the Class of 2024 arrived on Bowdoin’s campus, then-College President Clayton Rose sent a video to incoming students’ inboxes. In the video, Rose stands alone in a dimly …
Repeated surveys have indicated that the majority of Bowdoin students identify as liberal-leaning. The Bowdoin College Democrats have 219 registered members—more than ten percent of all students. For many years, students who identified on the opposite side of the spectrum …
While College House interviews for the upcoming academic year are underway, several alumni reflect on the evolving College House cultures over the last 15 years.
House culture
Chase Taylor ’12 was the vice president of Reed House during his sophomore …
Last spring, three seniors threw a series of parties that didn’t look or sound like the typical Bowdoin party. That was the whole point.
The self-described “raves” made Brunswick Apartments pulse with techno music that two of the hosts had …
Senior Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Student Aid Claudia Marroquin ’06, who leads the Bowdoin admissions office, said one topic frequently comes up when she talks with her counterparts at other liberal arts colleges: Why aren’t more men …
