Campus News

Happening throughout April, the Still Oberlin campaign encourages alumni to visit go.oberlin.edu/still, make a gift to the Oberlin Annual Fund, and request a campus photo of their choice.

Salvatore Champagne, Angela Cheng, Alvin Chow, Richard Hawkins, Geoffrey Pingree, Eve Sandberg, Haewon Song, and Sylvia Watanabe have been promoted to the rank of professor.

Every year as the All Roads Lead to Oberlin admissions events begin, I am reminded just how friendly, warm, and open Oberlin’s students, faculty, staff, and residents are.

Oberlin’s Board of Trustees has approved recommendations to reappoint with continuous tenure five assistant professors and promote them to the rank of associate professor. The newly tenured associate professors are: Justin Emeka, Timothy LeFebvre, Christina Neilson, Darko Opoku, and Ellen Wurtzel.

“Oberlin College Strategic Plan 2016-2021: Institutional transformation through an inclusive approach to academic and musical excellence” was approved by the General Faculty on February 4, 2016, and by the Board of Trustees on March 4, 2016.

Green Energy Ohio will present David Orr with a lifetime achievement award recognizing his contributions to promoting green energy policy.

Oberlin will host an impressive five symposia throughout April, beginning with the Midwest Asian American Student Conference on April 1.

Originally intended to operate February 22 through March 18, the Shift Coworking Pop-Up has been extended beyond the end of the academic year. Located at 29 South Main Street, Shift is a workplace

Alexia Hudson-Ward will join the Oberlin community on July 1 as the Azariah Smith Root Director of Libraries. As director, Hudson-Ward will be responsible for the four campus libraries, special exhibits, collection development, technology integration, and space planning and utilization.

Emeritus Professor of Philosophy Daniel Merrill died March 13, 2016, after a brief hospitalization.