A Warm Welcome for President Sarah Bolton
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Although Sarah Bolton has been Whitman College’s acting President since July of 2022, the Whitman community and guests—from near and far—came together to officially welcome the college’s 15th President.
On Friday, April 28, 2023, a beautiful spring day in Walla Walla, Bolton’s Presidential Installation was held in Cordiner Hall. In attendance, along with higher education dignitaries and guests of the President, were three former Whitman College presidents, Kathleen Murray (14th, 2015–2022), George Bridges, (13th, 2005–2015) and Robert Skotheim (10th, 1975–1988).
As part of the official Installation, the Chair of the Whitman College Board of Trustees Joe Davis ’80 and the Chair of the President’s Advisory Board Kirsten Gable ’01 presented Bolton with the Whitman College Charter and Presidential Medallion.
“Under your leadership, may Whitman College continue to inspire, inform, educate and transform its students so they will recognize and accept the challenges of our changing world as real opportunities to lead and to serve,” Davis said.
Read the full story by Director of Content Margie Reece. Additional photos and a video recording of Installation are also available online.
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Thinking About Working: May Day
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Feature by: Noah Leavitt, Director of the Career and Community Engagement Center
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May Day offers an opportunity to examine the state of workers in late Spring 2023. (Perhaps consider this piece a bookend to the year’s first Thinking About Working: Labor Day Edition, when we explored the late summer 2022 jobs landscape and what lay ahead.)
Encyclopedia Britannica teaches us that “in 1889 an international federation of socialist groups and trade unions designated May 1 as a day in support of workers, in commemoration of the Haymarket Riot in Chicago (1886).” In reaction, “five years later, U.S. President Grover Cleveland, uneasy with the socialist origins of Workers’ Day, signed legislation to make Labor Day—already held in some states on the first Monday of September—the official U.S. holiday in honour of workers.”
Thus, in many parts of the world May Day is a significant celebration. Not so much in the United States, although many labor unions and other organizations supporting the rights of workers utilize the day to showcase the condition of workers in our country.
When we look around at the state of workers in 2023, we quickly discover a complex and seemingly inconsistent reality.
Read more.
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President’s Open Office Hours for Students Tomorrow
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President Sarah Bolton will host open office hours to visit with students on Tuesday, May 2 from 4–5 p.m. in Memorial Building 304. Drop by to share your thoughts or just to chat.
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Save the Date: Lavender Graduation
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LGBTQIA+ Student Services invites the Whitman community, friends and allies to a Lavender Graduation ceremony to celebrate our graduates on Wednesday, May 10 from 3–5 p.m. in the Reid Campus Center Young Ballroom. A reception hosted by the Alumni Association will follow the ceremony. Please help the event organizers planning this event and RSVP in advance. (See attached flyer.)
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In accordance with Washington State Labor & Industries employer requirements, we are notifying the campus community that since Friday, four people with Whitman access were confirmed positive for COVID-19.
Please continue to follow all our campus COVID-19 protocols and if you have any symptoms that may be COVID-19 or know that you may have been exposed to coronavirus, please be tested.
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Outdoor Program External Review: Opportunity to Provide Feedback
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Reid Campus Center Picnic Tables, Near East Entrance
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President Bolton: Open Office Hours for Students
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Outdoor Program External Review: Opportunity to Provide Feedback
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Reid Campus Center Picnic Tables, Near East Entrance
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Science Building, 2nd Floor Atrium
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Field near Harper Joy Theatre
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