Sixteen lucky Tri-Co students had presidents for professors last semester. Haverford College President Dan Weiss and Bryn Mawr College President Kim Cassidy co-taught a class, “Higher Education and the Liberal Arts: Mission, Structure and Trends,” with Weiss’ Chief of Staff Jesse Lytle.

President Weiss will teach “In Search of the Sacred: Pilgrimage and Crusade in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages,” in the spring semester.

Associate Professor of Astronomy Beth Willman has filled her office in Strawbridge Observatory with unusual instructional tools to help make dark matter and the expansion of the universe understandable to even the most novice stargazer.

Read Office Hour in the Fall 2014 issue of Haverford Magazine.

The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship supports student work in the realms of social justice and civic engagement by funding internships, post-baccalaureate fellowships, service learning expeditions, and research travel to expand learning outside the classroom walls.

Then & Now: The Skate House

The Skate House hasn’t seen any actual skaters for decades. But it’s still in use, booked for receptions and student events such as club meetings and even poetry readings.

Missed yesterday’s photo? See the Skate House back “Then“.

Then & Now: The Skate House

The Skate House, designed in 1949, is outfitted with a porch, two fireplaces and a sitting room with benches. It regularly played host to crowds of skaters back in the days when the Duck Pond could be counted on to freeze solid in winter.

Come back tomorrow to see the Skate House “Now”.

In the Collection: Letter from Frederick Douglass

This 1859 letter from Frederick Douglass is part of a collection of more than 100 letters held by Special Collections written by an array of 19th-century abolitionists and others to Philadelphia businessman and Quaker Benjamin Coates.

Haverford College has forged innovative partnerships with some of the world’s top academic institutions to offer students additional opportunities for graduate study.
Our degree partnership programs allow students to pursue an accelerated course of study toward a Master’s degree.

The Pre-Vet Society hosted furry friends in the Old Gym. Their De-Stress With Dogs event, in which pups from Main Line Animal Rescue come to campus to cuddle with and be petted by students during a finals week study break, has been so successful that it has become an annual occurrence.

Best known for railroad photography, O. Winston Link also shot promotional images of Haverford and many are in Special Collections.

“Studying abroad enriched my academic experience by exposing me to new perspectives and encouraging me to critically reevaluate my existing intellectual assumptions.” – Ben Wohl ’14

Each year more than 130 Haverford students take advantage of the opportunity to study abroad.