After exploring many options, considering ideas and concerns from the Haverford and Bryn Mawr communities, and consulting with infectious disease specialists and medical system leaders, the two Colleges have decided to start the semester Tuesday, Sept. 8, barring any upsurge of COVID-19 infections or government limitations.
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"If not at Haverford, where?"
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Strong-Leek, the provost, vice president for diversity and inclusion, and professor of women’s and gender studies at Berea College, will start August 25 as current Provost Fran Blase transitions back to the chemistry classroom.
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Joyce Bylander, who served in the dean’s office at Dickinson College for 20 years, will join the community July 1 for one year, following the departure of Dean Martha Denney.
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How did musical legend Sun Ra come to play a solo concert in Roberts Hall on a Fender Rhodes electric piano borrowed from a Haverford student and memorialized in a new archival Bandcamp recording?
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The canine buddies of faculty and staff are a regular—and beloved— presence on campus.
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Read on for—spoiler alert!—the story and people behind campus’ mysterious springtime tradition.
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Kent Watson not only donated all of the shop’s PPE to local front line workers, he has also been overseeing loans of 3D printers and sewing machines to make new face shields and masks.
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A collection of video messages from—and conversations with—Haverford College President Wendy Raymond and faculty during this semester of remote learning and social distancing, as well as conversations with alumni fighting the disease on the front lines.
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The pre-spring break iteration of the Office of Academic Resources’ Reading Rainbow book-advocacy series featured students, faculty, and staff recommending books that helped them “overcome a sense of powerlessness.”
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WE’RE SORRY THIS ITEM IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE, up through March 6 in VCAM, finds comedic value in a serious subject.
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This anthropology course, co-taught by this semester’s Friend in Residence, engages with issues, theories, and methodologies of nonviolent and violent struggles, peace negotiations, transitional justice, post-conflict reconstruction, and peacebuilding by looking at South Africa as a case study.
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This semester’s iteration of Haverford’s long-standing tradition celebrating self-governance focused on resolutions addressing sustainability, environmental justice, and student agency.
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The Quaker South African politician and activist will be on campus all semester long, teaching a class and offering several public talks.
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With two screenings and an exhibition planned for this semester, the ninth year of the Strange Truth series will examine themes of gender, justice, and historical memory across modern media.