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“My liberal arts experience changed everything in my life,” President David Wippman said in an interview for a recent podcast titled “What’s Your Why? – Advice from Higher Ed Leadership.” The series by the same title seeks to reveal the motivating forces behind the work of “a group of bold and visionary higher ed leaders.”

Hamilton alumnus and Goldman Sachs President and Co-Chief Operating Officer David M Solomon '84, P'16, discussed how the college contributed to his career success in a recent interview.

Although STEM is focused on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Hamilton students who had internships in those fields emphasized that it was their liberal arts education that made them stand apart.

A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article titled “Liberal arts colleges defending selves on social media,” pointed to former Hamilton Board of Trustees Chairman and Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley ’69 as an example of a liberal arts graduate who has achieved great success in the business world. 

Hamilton College played host to the Northeast Deans of Faculty annual meeting on Nov. 7-8.  Deans from 22 peer institutions attended.

Hamilton Board of Trustees chairman and former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley ’69 and Samuel J. Palmisano, former IBM CEO, were featured as corporate leaders with liberal arts degrees in a Chronicle of Higher Education article titled “Skills Gap? Employers and Colleges Point Fingers at Each Other.” 

MSNBC.com quoted Interim Executive Director of Career Center Mary Evans ’82 in an article titled “Biggest mistakes made by job-hunting grads” published on May 23 on its LifeInc. - The Economy and You site. Evans stressed how important it is for liberal arts graduates to be able to differentiate themselves in the marketplace.

Graduates of residential liberal arts colleges give their college experience higher marks than do graduates of private or public universities, according to a new national study. Released on Nov. 15, the study was commissioned by the Annapolis Group, a consortium of leading liberal arts colleges of which Hamilton is a member.