Faculty and administrators convened in Mills Hall on Friday, May 1 for their second-to-last meeting of the school year to discuss the College’s response to new federal reporting mandates, changes to various committees and policies and the hiring of seven …
Last April, in a campus-wide email by President Safa Zaki, it was announced that Senior Vice President and Dean for Academic Affairs Jen Scanlon is stepping down from her role as a college administrator at the end of this academic …
The faculty and staff neurodivergence book group met for the third and final time last Thursday in Hutchinson Lounge to discuss the book “Of Many Minds.” The book is a collection of personal essays spotlighting the experiences of neurodivergent faculty …
Last Friday, faculty met in Mills Hall for their first meeting after spring break. Topics of discussion included updates to the campus master plan, student academic policy, tenure materials, accessibility and artificial intelligence (AI). Underlying these discussions was an acknowledgement …
Throughout the academic year, typically on the first Friday of every month, the College holds what academic institutions refer to as faculty meetings, a practice held by colleges and universities across the U.S.
During these meetings, faculty discuss agenda items …
On Tuesday, Professor of Government Michael Franz delivered his inaugural lecture in Kresge Auditorium as the DeAlva Stanwood Alexander Professor of Government. In the lecture, titled “Choices and Changes: Interest Groups and Their Continued Role in Elections,” Franz discussed the …
At a marathon two-and-a-half hour meeting on February 27, faculty members discussed research funding and student academic policies and voted to confirm changes to tenure review procedures. A motion from Associate Professor of History Salar Mohandesi calling on President Zaki …
Similar to other institutions, many professors at Bowdoin share not only their academic disciplines but also their lives. Several couples exist within Bowdoin’s faculty and staff, with some in fields as different as biology and economics while others reside in …
Last Friday, faculty members gathered in Mills Hall for their first meetings of the semester. They discussed, among other topics, what the recent policy changes outlined by Senior Vice President and Dean for Student Affairs Jim Hoppe in his email …
Students and community members gathered Thursday at the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library (H-L) to celebrate the launch of English and Cinema Studies Professor Avivia Briefel’s latest book. “Ghosts and Things: The Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism” deals with the spiritualist movement of …