Students Must Advocate for Departments, Programs
September 15, 2017
Filed under Editorials, OPINIONS
In the throes of a budgetary crisis, it’s time for Oberlin students to rally behind their academic departments. With some tenure-track positions only temporarily replaced by visiting faculty, facilities set for understaffing, and the threat of more cuts in the future, it is vital that stud...
Enrollment Drop Creates Financial Shortfall
September 8, 2017
Filed under Campus News, NEWS, Recent Stories
Oberlin College is looking at a $5 million deficit heading into the 2017–18 academic year due to an unexpected drop in admissions. This not only strains budgets for the upcoming fiscal year, but also points toward a much larger budgetary issue that has been brewing under the surface for years. Newly...
Exclusive Governance Fails Students
September 8, 2017
Filed under Editorials, OPINIONS
In an email from this past summer announcing to faculty and staff that Oberlin’s revenues would fall well short of targets and create a deficit of $5 million, incoming Chair of the Board of Trustees Chris Canavan, OC ’84, began with the salutation “To the Oberlin community.” It wa...
“Financial Update From Chris Canavan ’84, Chair-elect, Board of Trustees”
Chris Canavan, OC ’84
September 8, 2017
Filed under Letters to the Editors, OPINIONS
Editor’s Note: The following is an email sent June 14, 2017 to the Oberlin College faculty and staff by the chair of the Board of Trustees. This was not submitted to the Review as a Letter to the Editors, but as it is addressed to the Oberlin community, we feel it appropriate to publish the te...
Oberlin Brings in New Administrators, Departments
Sydney Allen, News Editor
September 1, 2017
Filed under Campus News, NEWS, Recent Stories
Changes in many of the top administrative positions and advising and academic servicing centers hint at the transitory nature of this school year, as community members old and new begin to get their bearings in a new Oberlin. The school’s administrative transitions began with former President Marvin...
