Recent News: Unity Day and a New Watson Fellow
Unity Day – Saturday, March 16, 2024 Unity Day, organized by the Bonner Leaders, celebrated students’ cultures across campus, with student-made food from countries, like Jamaican beef patties and a Turkish Turko Napoleon, as well as performances from Seismic Step and the Universal Sounds Gospel Choir. Dayna Milner ’24, who...
Talking Campus Antisemitism and New Social Science with Professor Jeffrey Kopstein
University students are far more critical of Israel – and even more antisemitic – than the nation at large, right? Not necessarily, says Professor Jeffrey Kopstein, a professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Kopstein was hosted by the...
Deadnaming Emails Resolved
#Giving2UCDay is normally about collaboration, care, and inspiration throughout campus. However, this was not the case for many transgender and nonbinary students when the #Giving2UCDay update email was sent out addressed with each student’s name, addressing students as their “nicknames” while deadnaming many. Despite having their chosen names set in...
Recent News
Unity Day – Saturday, March 16, 2024 Unity Day, organized by the Bonner Leaders, celebrated students’ cultures across campus, with student-made food from countries, like Jamaican beef patties and a Turkish Turko Napoleon, as well as performances from Seismic Step and the Universal Sounds Gospel Choir. Dayna Milner ’24, who...
Librarian Diane Skorina Talks Potential Renovations to Myrin Library
Myrin Library could potentially - get ready to read this word a lot - receive a fantastic half-century birthday gift: a redesign. Talks regarding the Myrin Library - which opened in 1970 - getting expansive renovations have been taking place. Before you get too excited, temper your expectations: nothing is...
Affinity Information
SPINT and Affinity -> I & I (Inclusion and Interest) New I & I: AAPI and Intramural Sports I & I Fest is March 11th – 15th – Please send in your program advertisement flyers by 5pm on Monday, February 26th Monday 11th: CODE program Tuesday 12th: Clubs &...
Dr. Harold Dean Trulear Talks Theology and Mass Incarceration
By Sidney Belleroche sibelleroche@ursinus.edu On February 15th and 16th, Rev. Dr. Harold Dean Trulear, an associate professor of Applied Theology at Howard University of Divinity, visited Ursinus College to discuss mass incarceration’s relationship with religion. Trulear, this year’s Davis Visiting Professor in Judeo-Christian Values, hosted three events: Creating a...
The Performing and Visual Arts Design and Technology major
The Kaleidoscope is now home to Ursinus’ new Performing and Visual Arts Design and Technology major! “The Performing and Visual Arts Design and Technology major invites students to take risks, ask questions, and develop sophisticated interpretative, artistic, and practical skills with which they may have had little experience. The major...
Voluntary Retirement Program: Limited Time Offer
After the reduction of thirteen staff and administration positions last December, Ursinus College has announced a voluntary retirement program with the aim of reducing excess budget. As announced by Terri Albertson, vice president for Finance and Administration, the payout program offers faculty and staff over the age of fifty-nine and...