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Byline: Susan Snyder Nov. 6Bryn Mawr College president Wendy Cadge suggested in a message to the campus Wednesday to set aside a space as a 'politics-free zone' where 'we honor [...]

Byline: Ariana Perez-Castells Sep. 30Undergraduate students employed at Temple University as resident assistants, peer mentors, and executive board members of the residence hall association, want to form a union. Some [...]

Sep. 15The University of Mary Washington volleyball posted a split in New Jersey on Saturday, defeating Rutgers-Newark in straight sets 3-0 but falling to Swarthmore College 3-2. Emily Flamm had [...]

Byline: Zoe Greenberg Aug. 20Rutgers University released new guidelines this week explicitly banning encampments. At Swarthmore College, students are preparing for disciplinary hearings over their participation in last academic year's [...]

Byline: Beatrice Forman May 24Swarthmore College's pro-Palestinian encampment officially came down Friday morning, marking the end of the longest campus protest over the war in Gaza in the Philadelphia area. [...]

Byline: Susan Snyder May 20Swarthmore College for the first time since its founding in 1864 will hold commencement off campus, due to a pro-Palestinian encampment on Parrish Lawn where the [...]

Byline: Isabella DiAmore May 6Desks and chairs were scattered inside a classroom at Stetser Elementary School in Chester. Kevin Stanford and Nyrell Hackett each took a seat on top of [...]

Byline: Gary Miles Jun. 13--Raymond F. Hopkins, 84, of Swarthmore, professor emeritus of political science at Swarthmore College, world food policy pioneer, government consultant, worldwide lecturer, author, and mentor, died [...]

Byline: Frank Kummer May 1Swarthmore College apologized Monday after detailing how a professor dug up a Native American burial ground in Chester County in 1899 and displayed its human remains [...]

Byline: Mike Jensen Mar. 12Michael Caprise will remember it for the rest of his life once he sees it. Swarthmore College's junior big man can find it on videotape, his [...]

Byline: Mike Jensen PHILADELPHIA Allen Schneider, longtime Swarthmore College psychology and neuroscience professor, is a basketball fan, but he wasn't actively looking for ways to help out Swarthmore's men's basketball [...]

Byline: Mike Jensen Feb. 23Allen Schneider, longtime Swarthmore College psychology and neuroscience professor, is a basketball fan, but he wasn't actively looking for ways to help out Swarthmore's men's basketball [...]

Byline: Tom Avril PHILADELPHIA When Colin Purrington looked at a sample of dried figs under a microscope recently, he answered a question that had been bugging him for years. Inside [...]

Byline: Tom Avril Feb. 3When Colin Purrington looked at a sample of dried figs under a microscope recently, he answered a question that had been bugging him for years. Inside [...]

Byline: Stephanie Farr Jun. 15Meet Jemille Duncan, a recent Philly high school grad, a legislative aide for City Councilmember Cindy Bass, and a newly minted Gates Scholar. Standing firm: 'I [...]

Byline: Susan Snyder Aug. 27The head women's basketball coach at Swarthmore College has resigned amid an investigation by the college over an accusation that she sexually assaulted a former player [...]

(January 6, 1932, to July 3, 2021) William Donald Jones, Jr., loving husband, father, grandfather, and greatgrandfather, died peacefully in his home at Carlyle Place in Macon, Georgia, on July [...]

Byline: Rita Giordano May 22Constance Cain Hungerford, 73, a former interim president at Swarthmore College and longtime faculty member, died Wednesday, May 12, at Crozer Chester Medical Center after suffering [...]

Byline: Susan Snyder Dec. 5Five members of Swarthmore College's women's basketball team are threatening to quit, saying the school failed to adequately respond to their complaints of inappropriate behavior by [...]

Byline: Bonnie L. Cook Nov. 10Theodore Wood Friend 3d, 89, of Villanova, a historian who was the 11th president of Swarthmore College and later head of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships [...]

Byline: Damichael Cole July 02-- Jul. 2--Swarthmore College is suspending its 2020 fall athletic seasons, the administration announced Tuesday. Hoping to reopen for the fall semester in the midst of [...]

Byline: Bonnie L. Cook May 09-- May 9--Marion J. Faber, 76, of Swarthmore, a retired professor of German and the humanities at Swarthmore College, died Thursday, April 30, of complications [...]

Byline: Ellie Rushing March 18-- Mar. 18--When Hussein Khambhalia received an email from administrators at the University of Pennsylvania late Sunday afternoon, his jaw dropped. He had 48 hours to [...]

Byline: Ellie Rushing March 17-- Mar. 17--When Hussein Khambhalia received an email from administrators at the University of Pennsylvania late Sunday afternoon, his jaw dropped. He had 48 hours to [...]

Byline: Mike Jensen March 06-- Mar. 6--This transition, Vinny DeAngelo said, adjusting to Swarthmore College as a freshman, and adjusting to Swarthmore College basketball as a freshman -- kind of [...]

Byline: Mike Jensen March 05-- Mar. 5--Conner Delaney could have stuck with his original college decision back when he was at Episcopal Academy: Go play lacrosse at Villanova. 'I just [...]

NEW YORK: Dillon Kivo has issued the following news release: A natural-born leader, he has headed non-profit programs with support funding nearing seven figures. Gaeta has one of the largest [...]

Byline: Bonnie L. Cook Feb. 22-- Feb. 22--Harold E. Pagliaro, 94, a Swarthmore College professor who devoted his life to teaching and writing about English literature after experiencing the horror [...]

Byline: Susan Snyder Swarthmore College drew national notoriety last spring after a trove of internal fraternity documents describing horrendous behavior was leaked and published by two campus media organizations. Students [...]

Byline: Susan Snyder Oct. 25-- Oct. 25--Swarthmore College drew national notoriety last spring after a trove of internal fraternity documents describing horrendous behavior were leaked and published by two campus [...]

Byline: Bonnie L. Cook Oct. 10-- Oct. 10--Services will be Saturday, Dec. 21, for Thompson Bradley, 85, a retired Swarthmore College Russian professor and anti-war activist who died Sunday, Sept. [...]

Byline: Bonnie L. Cook Sept. 14-- Sep. 14--It was so cold that morning in February 1962 that cigarette smoke hung in the air over the officials huddled at opposite ends [...]

Byline: Anna Orso May 12-- May 12--After three women filed a highly publicized federal complaint against Swarthmore College in 2013 alleging that administrators mishandled their sexual-assault cases, the elite liberal [...]

Byline: Anna Orso May 01-- May 1--Swarthmore College's two remaining fraternities announced late Tuesday they will disband amid outrage over leaked internal documents from one of the groups that suggested [...]

Byline: Anna Orso April 29-- Apr. 29--A sit-in at a Swarthmore College fraternity continued Monday morning, marking the start of a third day of action at the house by campus [...]

Byline: Anna Orso April 29-- Apr. 29--A sit-in at a Swarthmore College fraternity continued into the night Sunday, marking the end of a second day of action at the house [...]

Byline: Mike Jensen March 13-- Mar. 13--Monday's practice would start at 5 o'clock, but the gym was still empty. Possibly 5:05, Swarthmore College men's basketball coach Landry Kosmalski had mentioned. [...]

Byline: Tabitha Berg (CHESTER, Pa.) -- NEWS: Chester Charter Scholars Academy (CCSA) to Graduate 100% of First-Ever Senior Class, June 10, 2019, 1 p.m., Lang Performing Arts Center, Swarthmore College [...]

Byline: Emanuella Grinberg, Andrea Diaz and Amanda Jackson, CNN (CNN) -- Two Swarthmore College fraternity chapters say they are closing their doors in response to allegations of racist, misogynistic and [...]

Getty Convulsions dominated my first two years at Swarthmore College. My first neurologist, Dr. Charles Nicholson, instructed me to tell no one about my epilepsy because otherwise I would be [...]

New York City: Moody's Investors Service has issued the following news release: Moody's Investors Service has assigned a Aaa rating to Swarthmore College's proposed approximately $95 million of Swarthmore College [...]

Byline: Rebecca Heilweil Dec. 04--Swarthmore College has become a sanctuary campus, deciding against voluntarily sharing student information with immigration officials or willingly giving them access to college property. That announcement [...]

Byline: Rebecca Heilweil PHILADELPHIA _ Swarthmore College has become a sanctuary campus, deciding against voluntarily sharing student information with immigration officials or willingly giving them access to college property. The [...]

Byline: Caitlin McCabe Dec. 01--On and off for the last three years, a sprawling seven-bedroom house just steps from Swarthmore College sat on the market, waiting for a buyer to [...]

Byline: Susan Snyder Sept. 06--Emma Morgan-Bennett isn't sure whether she wants a career in the humanities or the hard sciences, or a piece of both. So the Swarthmore College freshman [...]

Byline: Julie Shaw July 07--Swarthmore College again beat out the University of Pennsylvania in a Forbes annual ranking of top U.S. colleges. In the magazine's 2016 ranking of the nation's [...]

March 27--As Mark Hagerott says in his interview on this page, 'North Dakota should think big.' We couldn't agree more, and here are a few ways the North Dakota University [...]

Byline: Justine McDaniel March 20--Having more choices can actually be a bad thing, says the research that changed psychologist Barry Schwartz's life, earning his TED Talk millions of views and [...]

Byline: Tara Sullivan Basketball had already done so much for Eran Ganot, from an all-county career at Tenafly High School to a senior year captaincy at Swarthmore College, an athletic [...]

Byline: Susan Snyder Feb. 25--Swarthmore College, the epicenter of student protest last year over investment in fossil fuels, has budgeted $300,000 as part of an ongoing commitment to improve energy [...]