Faculty convened last Friday, September 27, for their second meeting of the academic year to discuss, among other topics, how to encourage student interest in the humanities.
Nadia Celis, a professor of Romance languages and literatures and Latin American, Caribbean …
For Assistant Professor of History Caylin Carbonell, history is powerful not just in the way it informs the present, but also in its ability to illustrate human agency. In her first semester at Bowdoin, Carbonell hopes to share this approach …
Faculty members packed into Mills Hall last Friday for their first meeting of the year. In a 90-minute gathering facilitated by Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Jay Sosa, faculty discussed President Safa Zaki’s new ad-hoc committee on …
Starting in the upcoming academic year, students and staff will encounter major software changes as the College transitions to Workday as its Enterprise Resource Planning partner, bringing new course registration systems and academic policies with it.
Editor’s Note April 14, 2024, at 2:10 p.m.: An earlier version reported that the model of course registration starting for the fall of 2025 will operate through the current algorithmic model and the new first-come, first-serve by class year model …
On Thursday afternoon, the Nixon Lounge of Hawthorne-Longfellow Library hosted a launch event for Professor of History Page Herrlinger’s new book, “Holy Sobriety in Modern Russia: A Faith Healer and His Followers,” which tells the story of “Brother Ioann” Churikov, …
The roughly ten classes that compose a student’s major at Bowdoin—not to mention double majors and minors—determine much of their undergraduate experience. But even at a college located on the coast of Maine, students still neglect to consider the practical …
On Friday, during their final meeting of the semester, faculty voted in favor of instituting a week-long Thanksgiving break. Friday’s vote marks the culmination of a months-long debate among faculty members and students alike over the future of the break.…
Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) hosted members of the Committee of Governance and Faculty Affairs (GFA) and Associate Professor of Government and Legal Studies Jeffrey Selinger Wednesday to discuss faculty attitudes about extending Thanksgiving break.
On Wednesday night, the Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENA) program hosted a talk titled “Difficult Terms in the Israel/Palestine Conflict” in Kresge Auditorium. Students, Bowdoin faculty and community members filled the seats to hear three professors give context …