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Tex Wyndham ’58 received the highest honor in ragtime music.

Danielle Moss Lee ’90 was named one of 25 Influential Black Women in Business.

Members of the Alumni Council swapped their pens and papers for pie servers at Sharples during their spring meeting.

Nation’s growing income gap movingly depicted in political scientist’s new work.

The nation’s oldest learned society has added two more Swarthmoreans to its illustrious roster.

A year ago, Amer Ahmed joined Swarthmore as Intercultural Center (IC) director and dean of the sophomore class.

Few incidents in Swarthmore’s history are more storied than the sit-in by 20 determined black students in Parrish Hall early in 1969. During a tense several days, they occupied the admissions office to stress their demands for more black faculty, greater enrollment and support of black students, and the creation of a Black Cultural Center and black studies program. 

Longtime Swarthmore faculty members retire.

Swarthmoreans near and far unite ...

Anastasia Herasimovich ’06 found herself stranded in the United States and wound up at Swarthmore.