On Nov. 12, 2021, President Kathy Murray and Board of Trustees Chair Joe Davis sent an email to the Whitman community outlining the proposals voted on by the Board of Trustees for the 2023 fiscal budget.
In...
This summer, Whitman College students received the news that longtime Master Electrician and Sound Engineer for the Harper Joy Theatre, Kevin Walker, had passed away. This came only months after his position...
Whitman will soon have a new Chair of the Board of Trustees. Joe Davis, the current Vice-Chair, will assume the position after current Chair Nancy Serrurier's term comes to an end in May. Davis was elected...
After the announcement of finalized cuts in the Financial Sustainability Review (FSR), the Off-Campus Studies (OCS) program finds itself amid some financial and structural changes.
In an email sent...
President Kathy Murray’s response to pervasive narratives about the FSR — which she deemed “misunderstandings" — has provoked annoyance and frustration from many students and alumni.
Following...
President Kathy Murray announced at the end of February that she plans to retire from Whitman in June 2022 — three years earlier than planned. Tasked with finding the college’s next president, the...
In response to community-wide distress generated by the Financial Sustainability Report (FSR), the Associated Students of Whitman College (ASWC) passed three resolutions on Feb. 21.
“Resolutions are...
After the first proposed draft garnered significant attention and protest, Whitman College President Kathleen Murray released the final financial sustainability report (FSR) on Wednesday, March 3rd. The...
As I’m sure many of you have heard, President Kathy Murray recently announced that she is retiring at the end of the 2021-2022 school year. She did this in a very short, very vague email that has left...
Whitman is continuing to reduce investments in Carbon Underground 200 groups more than two years after the initial vote to divest from fossil fuels. The Board of Trustees has identified in their Statement...
Whitman’s recently published Financial Sustainability Review (FSR) proposes cuts that, if adopted, could influence Whitman’s ability to actualize the action items published by the Inclusion Task Force...
President Kathy Murray announced in a community-wide email Monday morning her plans to retire from Whitman in June 2022.
Murray had planned to use the final years of her contract — through the 2024-2025...
