President Wippman’s Writings & Remarks

Welcome to the new members of our community and welcome back to those returning. I hope you found winter break relaxing and enjoyable, as I did.

Fifty-five years after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death, we can – and should – take inspiration from what he said and did.

I am writing to announce that Vice President for Communications and Marketing Melissa Richards will be leaving Hamilton next month to become vice president and chief of staff at Emerson College in Boston.

On Friday, December 1, the Board of Trustees held its annual winter meeting in New York City in conjunction with the 1812 Leadership Circle Weekend.

Each year the Thanksgiving break provides us with an opportunity to rest and recharge before the final push to the end of the semester. 

I am writing to share the news that Vice President for Enrollment Monica Inzer will retire at the end of the academic year after 20 years of leading Hamilton’s student recruitment, enrollment, and financial aid programs.

In the last few days, I have received deeply distressing reports of antisemitic and Islamophobic comments and interactions on our campus. Such incidents are multiplying at colleges across the country, but I am appalled to find Hamilton among them.

Several students recently alerted us to ignorant, offensive, antisemitic comments made on Jodel, an anonymous app that allows users within a specific geographic region to communicate with each other, whether they are on campus or in the local area.
 

This year the annual fall meeting of the Hamilton Board of Trustees coincided with Fallcoming & Family Weekend ...

Dear Members of the Hamilton Community,

The recent terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel serve as a gruesome reminder to all of us that intentionally targeting civilians is abhorrent and criminal.