Valerie Jarrett, a former senior advisor to President Barack Obama, the chief executive officer of the Obama Foundation, and a member of its board of trustees, will deliver the 2025 commencement ...

Image courtesy of Uriah M. Hernandez. Each week, the Record (using a script in R) randomly selects a student at the College for our One in Two Thousand feature, excluding current Record board members.

The College launched the CARE Team, a committee that directs students identified through referrals as needing additional support to available campus resources, this academic year. Senior Associate ...

At the end of every semester, students swarm to the anonymous campus-based social media platform Yik Yak with the same question: Why is James Cart ’05 so obsessed with me? “Bruh james cart just wants ...

Tomorrow will officially be the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere: Warmer weather is melting the snow and days are slowly lengthening. Despite the assignments of midterm season, ...

Berchem’s etching, The Cows at the Watering Place (The Cow Drinking). (Photo courtesy of the Clark Art Institute.) Upon entering the Thaw Gallery for Works on Paper at the Clark Art Institute’s Manton ...

The College’s EphVentures programs have seen a decrease in applications for orientation leader positions, according to their student directors. The programs faced a 15 percent budget cut and were ...

Nearly every day since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, we have been flooded with news about massive changes to the federal government — research cuts, the gutting of federal departments, ...

In the spring of 2001, a pallet of unsealed moving boxes was unloaded from a truck at the Williamstown post office. Inside were thousands of VHS tapes and photo negatives, each meticulously labeled in ...

Staff Spotlight is a new column that highlights the contributions of the people who keep the College running. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Morning beverage of choice? Mocha ...

Verkleeren crushed the competition at NESCACs this year, despite swimming in non-dominant events. (Photo courtesy of Sports Information.) Sophia Verkleeren ’25 began swimming by a mere twist of fate. ...

In recent weeks, the federal government has canceled $400 million in federal funding to Columbia University because of what it describes as the school’s failure to limit antisemitic harassment. The ...