Messages
Message to the Campus Community — Dean of Student Affairs Search Update (November 20, 2018)
To the Bowdoin campus community, I am writing with an update on the search for the dean of student affairs to replace Tim Foster, who will be retiring in June 2019. We have retained the search firm of Storbeck/Pimentel & Associates to work with the College on this search. Shelly Storbeck, the co-founder and managing […]
Message to Faculty and Staff — Proposed New Title IX Regulations (November 19, 2018)
To faculty and staff, I write to share the following message, which was sent this afternoon to our students. All the best, Clayton To Bowdoin students, As you may have seen, US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos proposed new Title IX regulations on Friday that appear intended to change the way colleges and universities respond to reports of […]
Message to the Bowdoin Community — Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster (November 12, 2018)
To the Bowdoin community, Our dean of student affairs, Tim Foster, has informed me that he will retire at the end of the current academic year in June. He plans to take some time to focus on things his approach to the job has not allowed and will then consider what he might devote his […]
Message to the Campus Community — Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting (October 28, 2018)
To the campus community, As you know, on Saturday there was a shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Eleven people were killed and six were wounded, including four police officers. On Wednesday, two people, both black, were gunned down at a supermarket in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, by an individual who earlier had […]
Message to Campus Community (October 16, 2018)
To the campus community, It is our practice to notify you when an anonymous act of bias takes place on our campus. Regrettably, such an act has occurred. The Bias Incident Group—established at the College in 1988 to provide a prompt response to anonymous acts of bias and to ensure that they come to the […]