Laura Haley Chief Copy Editor On April 28, the Global and International Studies (G&IS) department hosted a roundtable discussion titled “Contextualizing Pandemic” via Zoom for current and admitted students from the class of 2024. The meeting featured G&IS professors, Matthew Krain of the political science …
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Academic policies change for 2020 Spring Semester due to COVID-19 pandemic
Waverly Hart Editor in Chief Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the move to online learning, the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) has made several major changes to the academic policy for the 2020 Spring Semester. Many of the changes relate to a student’s ability to …
A quick-fix solution isn’t the way to plan commencement
Brandon Borges Contributing Writer The uncertainty of COVID-19 has severely impacted administrative planning across the world. International, national, state and even local administrators of all organizations are currently at the whims of the virus, with events of all types being postponed for an arbitrary date …
Decisions are made by those who show up
Oria Daugherty Contributing Writer Over the last year, the College has started to undergo a lot of changes in a lot of different areas — we have begun the Master Planning process to plan for the next decade of Wooster’s future, the planning for the …
Bolton announces virtual commencement, senior celebrations during B&G Weekend
Waverly Hart Editor in Chief On Friday, April 10, President Sarah Bolton announced that The College of Wooster would be holding a virtual graduation ceremony to celebrate the class of 2020’s accomplishments and time at the College. Bolton announced this in an email sent to …
When will Wooster take student concerns over tuition seriously?
Zoe Kopp-Weber Contributing Writer C.O.W. tuition increased 4.6 percent in 2013. This was my junior year and I was anxious. The sticker price of our education exceeded $50,000 before additional expenses, and I was also shouldering bills for my family at the time. I advocated …