How professors use AI in the classroom
Last spring, the Lafayette College faculty implemented a policy requiring that all professors include an artificial intelligence clause in their syllabi. A year later, professors are still tweaking...
View ArticleReligious and Spiritual Life adds new face
The Office of Religious and Spiritual Life hired a new assistant director and Hillel Society co-advisor in January to offer additional chaplaincy support at Lafayette College, doubling the office in...
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Residence life vacancy remains as housing lottery approaches
Grace Reynolds, who held the role of director of residence life for more than 15 years, retired in December, leaving the Office of Residence Life without a director. This vacancy remains as the housing...
View ArticleLafayette names new VP of communications
Lafayette College named a new vice president for communications last Thursday, giving the communications division its first permanent leader since 2022. Kathryn Meier, currently the top strategist at...
View ArticleNew interdisciplinary professorship to emphasize power of ‘and’
Lafayette College announced the creation of a new endowed professorship for interdisciplinary studies in a news release on Feb. 20. The Birle Family Endowed Professorship in Interdisciplinary...
View ArticleLafayette reveals new common curriculum ahead of Class of 2029 enrollment
A new base curriculum will be offered to the incoming Class of 2029 and subsequent years, two years after Lafayette College faculty voted to revise it. The updated curriculum, formally known as the...
View ArticleNew syllabus repository released for course registration
A new tool intended to replace student access to course evaluations launched on March 27, just in time for Fall 2025 course registration. The syllabus repository is available to anyone with a Lafayette...
View Article2nd strategic plan endowed professorship announced
Lafayette College announced a new endowed professorship dedicated to investigating the relationship between democracy and technology on April 9. The position is the second of its kind to be created...
View ArticleFaculty vote maintains test-optional policy
After deciding to make standardized tests optional for applying students due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Lafayette College faculty recently voted to maintain the test-optional policy for three more...
View ArticleNo-confidence vote dialogue continues, questions remain
It’s been over two months since college President Nicole Hurd lost a historic no-confidence vote from the faculty. While she promised “constructive conversations” between them, her administration and a...
View ArticleCollege fills Title IX vacancy
Lafayette College recently hired a new Title IX coordinator and director of institutional equity, filling a position vacant since September. “In the world that we live in and the institutions we’re at,...
View ArticleFaculty vote to forbid intimate student-faculty relationships
The Lafayette College faculty voted on Tuesday to formally prohibit romantic or sexual relationships between Lafayette students and faculty members, broadening a sexual assault policy that was added to...
View Article‘No one’s going to save us except ourselves’
Four Lafayette College faculty members are rebuilding a campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors, or AAUP. If established, members will join over 500 other higher education...
View ArticleAssociate provosts to replace academic dean structure
The Lafayette College administration is replacing its academic deans with two new associate provosts this summer. The positions — the associate provost of scholarship, research and academic initiatives...
View ArticleGateway career counselor retires
Alana Klass, a senior associate director at Lafayette College’s Gateway Career Center, will retire at the end of this academic year after nearly two decades of mentorship and advocacy for students....
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Long-time scholars, lifelong Leopards
Gallery • 4 Photos Eric Ziolkowski wanted to spotlight his teaching relationship with the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center, in which "our department has a strong, long-standing relationship with that...
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