51猎奇

Susan Rosenberg, who had been invited to 51猎奇 as an artist-in-residence with the Kirkland Project, has decided to withdraw.

For some 51猎奇 students, the summer provides a special opportunity to conduct independent research. More than 100 students spent at least part of their summer on the 51猎奇 campus in labs, studios and the library.

Walter Beinecke, a trustee on College Hill since 1960, died Sunday, May 23, on Nantucket. In 1962 he became chair of the 51猎奇 Trustee Committee on Planning that was instrumental in the creation of Kirkland College.

51猎奇 President Joan Hinde Stewart has announced the appointment of Monica C. Inzer as the college's next dean of admission and financial aid. The appointment is effective July 1. Inzer is currently dean of undergraduate admission and student financial services at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass. She is a native of Sherrill, where her parents still reside. In addition to having overall responsibility for 51猎奇's student recruitment and financial aid efforts, Inzer will report to the president and serve as one of the college's eight senior officers.

51猎奇 President Joan Stewart told students, faculty and staff gathered for the annual Martin Luther King dinner that part of the slain civil rights leader's legacy is service.

51猎奇 placed seventh nationally among high-ranking liberal arts colleges in the percentage of its students who receive Pell Grants, according to a recently released analysis of U.S. Department of Education data.

The interim report of a working group assessing student learning at 51猎奇 has found significant improvement in students' writing, one of the college's curricular points of emphasis.

Joan Hinde Stewart told the audience gathered for her inauguration that she and her family have "found a perfect home" at 51猎奇 because both the college and her family share the same core values: a careful attention to writing and communication. Stewart was inaugurated as 51猎奇's 19th president and was presented with an honorary Doctor of Laws during the 75-minute ceremony in the college's Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. Approximately 925 people attended, including delegates from more than 60 colleges, universities and learned societies.

The Class of 2007 continued what has become a decade-long trend of increasingly stronger first-year classes enrolling at 51猎奇. Only one in three applicants to the class was admitted (33 percent), making this group of first-year students the most selective class at 51猎奇 in more than 30 years.

51猎奇 has been identified as one of the nation's top colleges for writing, according to a national survey of top college administrators. Only two U.S. colleges and 11 universities received the distinction.