With New Petition, Students Keep Baldwin Debate Alive
Although Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Assistant Director of Africana Studies Andrea Baldwin turned down two offers to extend her visiting contract by another year, and Dean of the Faculty Abby Van Slyck has confirmed Baldwin’s last day of employment at Connecticut College to be June 30, 2018, students are still working hard to convince the administration that they need to make more of an effort to retain Baldwin.
Sustainable Agriculture Comes to Conn
In its initial form, the upcoming Community-Supported Sustainable Agriculture Symposium would only have lasted one day, but with speakers coming all the way from Missouri, Kira Kirk ’18 decided to expand it from Feb. 22 to 25. Kirk completed her career-funded internship at the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture in Columbia, Missouri and found the experience highly beneficial, claiming: “CCUA changed my life…It was the first time that I had a job that I liked.”
