Presidential News
President Weiss Announces Steps Planned to Improve Campus Climate
President Daniel H. Weiss sent the following email to the campus community today to announce steps being taken in response to recommendations from the Campus Climate Working Group: Earlier this summer, the Campus Climate Working Group issued to me a series of recommendations resulting from the findings of the study and the town meetings held [...]
Temple Senior Vice Provost Betsy Leebron Tutelman Will Spend Year at Lafayette as ACE Fellow
Betsy Leebron Tutelman, senior vice provost for strategic initiatives and communications at Temple University, will spend the 2011-12 academic year at Lafayette as an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow. The ACE Fellows Program prepares senior leaders to serve American colleges and universities by enabling participants to immerse themselves in the culture, policies, and decision-making [...]
President Weiss Unveils Community Partnership Review
President Daniel H. Weiss sent the following email to faculty and staff Aug. 25 about the College’s commitment to Easton: On December 16, 1824, a group of Eastonians gathered at Chippy White’s Tavern and agreed to build a college in their town and to name the new institute of higher education after the Revolutionary War hero [...]
President Daniel H. Weiss Honored for Service by Boys & Girls Club of Easton
The Boys & Girls Club of Easton will present the 2011 Martin Zippel Award to Lafayette President Daniel H. Weiss and Martin Till, publisher of The Express-Times newspaper. The award is presented in recognition of an individual or business who has demonstrated outstanding integrity, leadership, and consistency in support of the Boys & Girls Club [...]
Initiative to Grow the Faculty Will Position Lafayette as a Premier Liberal Arts Institution
When President Daniel H. Weiss unveiled the College’s strategic plan in the fall of 2007, he said it was designed “to secure a place for Lafayette among the nation’s premier liberal-arts institutions.” Among its five key objectives are to increase the size of the permanent faculty by 20 percent and decrease the student-to-faculty ratio from [...]
Lafayette Team Presents Food Loop Project at National Sustainable Design Expo
A team of students and professors presented the College’s food loop project at the seventh annual National Sustainable Design Expo held in conjunction with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Earth Day celebration last weekend in Washington, D.C. Better known as the EPA: People, Prosperity, and the Planet award competition, Lafayette’s team was invited after going [...]
A Swinging Good Time at the Presidential Ball
Hundreds of students, faculty, and staff had a swinging time dancing to the music of the George Gee Orchestra during the annual Presidential Ball. The campus-wide tradition began in 2006 when the Office of Student Life Programs was asked to plan a student event to celebrate the inauguration of President Daniel H. Weiss. The success [...]
Lafayette Honored for Partnership with Easton
Lafayette was recognized for its contributions to the City of Easton by the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce during its annual economic outlook luncheon on Jan. 25. Easton Mayor Sal Panto presented the Community Development Award to President Daniel H. Weiss before an audience of several hundred at the Holiday Inn Conference Center in [...]
Community Service Is Important for Students
Lafayette President Daniel H. Weiss wrote the following article that was published in the Morning Call newspaper Jan. 3, 2011. On a Saturday in early December, more than 200 Lafayette College students and members of the community gathered in Kirby Field House to string together thousands of colorful paper cranes to help an Easton boy suffering from [...]
Neil McElroy and John O’Keefe Take on New Roles to Strengthen ITS
Neil J. McElroy, dean of libraries and information technology services, will take on an additional role as special assistant to President Daniel H. Weiss for information technology strategies. John O’Keefe, director of academic technology and network services, has been named senior director of information technology services. He will now oversee administrative information systems as well [...]
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