Menstrual Madness: Student Urges College to Combat Stigma Around Menstruation
On Nov. 2, students and administrators gathered in the lobby of Cro to celebrate the launch of free menstrual health products in select bathrooms on campus. The pilot program, spearheaded by Emma Horst-Martz ’18, was implemented in collaboration with SGA, the administration and student health services.
Teaching World Languages after reVision
After much discussion, the new Pathways curriculum of the College has finally been implemented, beginning this academic year for the current first year Class of 2020. The several components of this new curriculum have earned it a mention in Inside Higher Ed, a major publication on the state of higher education.
“Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success”: The Future of College Applications?
Our last two years of high school had arguably some of the most stressful moments in our high school careers. “The college process” is a time many of us will never forget. Going on visits with our families to several schools, receiving tutoring for the ACT and/or SAT and taking the tests multiple times and re-working our college essays to a point where we couldn’t any more.
More Than Just a Name
Community Partnerships at Connecticut College is founded on the idea of “building community, building partnerships and creating change,” as described by Associate Dean of Community Learning, Tracee Reiser. As a New London native, Reiser has been deeply involved in local community activism for much of her career. In our interview, she stressed that the name change from Office of Volunteers and Community Service to Community Partnerships was a deeply intentional choice, created to better reflect the values of the office and their commitment to mutually beneficial community partnership.
