首先:2018年冬天

1. 会见领导人  

今年的SGA领袖们令人震撼. From left: Delia Landers ’19 (secretary) uses her position “to make every student’s voice heard.” Anna Huang ’19 (treasurer) supports on-campus organizations and events. Alisha Clark ’18 (president) has improved Plenary and the voting system, spearheaded a collaborative drive with Migrant Rights Coalition, 和更多的. Nanda Bhushan ’19 (vice president) chairs the committee that appoints campus leaders. Swati Shastry ’18 (head of the Honor Board) facilitates and conducts hearings on the Honor Code's academic and social aspects.

2. 数字服务

“Digital instruction is most effective when it’s in the service of students’ individual interests and goals,” write President Kim Cassidy and Chief Information Officer Gina Siesing in a recent 高等教育内幕 一块.

Arguing for a broad-based education that encompasses all aspects of digital fluency, their article describes 布林莫尔’s digital competencies initiative, which infuses digital skills into all aspects of education, including a wide array of co-curricular experiences.

“While colleges should include courses in programming, data visualization and statistics,他们写道。, “more students develop digital fluency more quickly and easily when digital tools are integrated throughout the curriculum—from classical and Near Eastern archaeology to behavioral economics.”

3. 告别

Two 布林莫尔 veterans have departed this year as 丽莎·萨尔兹曼 headed to the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, 麻萨诸塞州, 和丹·E. 戴维森 celebrated a double retirement—from his position as CEO of the American Council of Teachers of Russian and as professor of Russian at 布林莫尔.

萨尔兹曼, now director of the Clark’s research and academic program, served in 布林莫尔’s history of art department for 23 years. 在她的新角色中, she’s leading an international agenda of intellectual events and collaborations and overseeing the Clark’s residential fellows program.

戴维森, at 布林莫尔 for more than 40 years, founded the American Council in 1974 to expand the exchange of scholarship between the U.S. 和苏联. 

“We have to find a way to work effectively with the other countries in the world,” 戴维森 told an SRO crowd at his retirement celebration hosted by the American Council this fall. “That means investing in young people.”

Heeding that call, the American Council created the 丹·E. 戴维森 Fellowship for students pursuing language and area studies and committed to contributing to mutual understanding and advancing successful international collaboration.

4. 问问

应对 《推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜》 article “As Glare Widens on Harassers, Men at Office Look in Mirror,” 20岁的阿曼达·韦塞尔写道: “I cannot believe that men in workplaces are turning to private group chats, 咨询昂贵的律师, and considering canceling holiday parties before considering a very simple solution to many of their questions about sexual harassment: simply asking women, 或者是任何人, if something is okay with them before doing it.” 

5. 崎岖的,长, & 可爱的

出现在 诗人与作家 年度 处女作诗人综述, Creative Writing’s Airea 马修斯 offered some writerly advice: “Listen to yourself, 你的手, 你的肠道, 你的钢笔, 你的思想. ... Your work has its own logic and its own tools; honor them. 和, 最后, wear comfortable shoes because the journey toward making the impossible possible is rugged, 长, 和可爱的.” 

6. 25 第18节

Think kids are growing up too fast? 

根据… new study co-authored by Psychology Professor Heejung Park，你应该再考虑一下. 

Based on data from surveys conducted between 1976 and 2016, the study depicts a cohort of teenagers less likely to engage in adult activities than those of earlier generations. 

The study shows a drop in alcohol use, 性活动, 约会, 课后就业, 甚至是开车. Today’s high school students date less than their Boomer and GenX counterparts (56 percent vs. about 85 percent), have sex less (41 vs. 54 percent), and work after-school jobs less (55 vs. 77%). 和 what might be unimaginable to anyone who recalls begging for the car keys, more than 25 percent of today’s high school students still don’t have a driver’s license by the time they graduate. 

The study was co-authored with Jean Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University. Park’s research looks at how individuals and families around the world develop and negotiate values in the midst of social change and globalization.

7. 创造历史

“To write history is to make an argument by telling a story about dead people,” said Jill Lepore. 

哈佛历史学家 《推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜》 作家, Lepore was speaking to 布林莫尔’s first-years, as part of the Emily Balch Seminar programming. 

分享她的写作策略, Lepore told students that writers should pursue only subjects that genuinely arouse their curiosity—or risk losing steam during the 长 research phase. The author of 10 books, Lepore has found her curiosity piqued by Benjamin Franklin’s sister (时代书), the origin story of a comic book icon (The Secret History of Wonder Woman), and a 长-lost manuscript purported to be the 长est ever written (乔·古尔德的牙齿).