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Hamilton College is noted in an Atlantic Monthly article, "Crying in the Kitchen Over Princeton," (Atlantic Unbound, 9/7/04) about the college admissions process. The author, Gregg Easterbrook, writes that "in the scheme of things, the difference between attending a prestigious name-brand college or a lesser-known second-tier college is miniscule...In the last 50 years the top schools have changed very little, while the next 100-200 schools have improved dramatically." Easterbrook wrote, "If you went to Illinois Wesleyan years back, you wouldn't have gotten an almost Harvard-quality education. But if you go to Illinois Wesleyan today, the education you'll receive is almost the same as what you'd get at Harvard. The same is true for Hamilton...and a lot of other schools. They've improved dramatically and gradually the word is getting out."

Three Hamilton College faculty members have been promoted to the rank of professor. Acting on the recommendations of the departments of mathematics, psychology and English and the Committee on Appointments and with the approval of President Joan Hinde Stewart, Associate Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz, Associate Professor of Psychology Gregory Pierce and Associate Professor of English Edward Wheatley were promoted, retroactive to July 1.

There are many benefits to working at Hamilton – paid holidays and vacations, a beautiful campus setting, comfortable offices with nearby parking, college-supplemented health insurance plans and tuition benefits for employees and families. But how about those other “perks” that we sometimes take for granted – or don’t know about?  As a service to the many new employees at Hamilton – and as a reminder to the veterans – we’re publishing a list of the Top 10…  

The Spring/Summer 2004 issue of On Campus With Women, a publication of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, features Hamilton's ACCESS Project, an educational, social service and career program that assists low-income parents in obtaining a higher education. ACCESS director Vivyan Adair wrote a feature article about how welfare reform is jeopardizing poor women's access to higher education, and two ACCESS students wrote a piece about their experience with the program. Nolita Clark and Shannon Stanfield are both ACCESS students who have since matriculated at Hamilton. "As two students currently enrolled in a unique program at Hamilton College called The ACCESS Project, we understand how higher education has changed our lives and those of our peers," they wrote in the article. "Our individual experiences are typical of both the struggle and determination that have marked our lives and the lives of our colleagues who are all working student parents. Taken together these narratives represent both the breadth and commonalities of our experiences as low-income, single-mother students."  

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was interviewed by the BBC World Service on September 7.  Li discussed Chinese leadership and domestic politics.

The fall semester at Hamilton is just beginning but you might want to mark your calendars for the following upcoming events. A number of world-renowned authors, policymakers and activists will be lecturing on the Hill. Starting with educator/author Jonathan Kozol on September 16, Hamilton will welcome authors Ron Chernow, Dorothy Allison and Christopher Dickey, writer/commentator Frank Deford, economist Alice Rivlin and the Honorable William J. Clinton, 42nd president of the United States.

The Hamilton College performing arts season begins on Friday, Sept. 10, with a free faculty music concert at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall. This concert features music department faculty who will perform chamber and solo works of music.

Author and sociologist Dalton Conley will present a lecture, "Is the Family Home a Level Playing Field?," on Thursday, Sept. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn.Conley is a sociologist who studies the reproduction and consequences of class inequality.  In this lecture, based on the research completed for his new book, The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why, Conley will discuss how inequality is reproduced within families, a finding quite contrary to the expectation that most inequality exists between families.  Conley is professor of sociology and public policy at New York University and is director of NYU's Center for Advanced Social Science Research. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College students came out in force on Saturday, Sept. 4 for the Hamilton Action Volunteer Outreach Coalition (HAVOC) "Make a Difference Day." This was the second year that HAVOC held the community volunteering day on the first weekend of the fall semester, rather than later in the fall on national Make a Difference Day. Organizer Haley Reimbold said holding it early in the semester increases student participation and recruits more volunteers for on-going programs. Volunteers worked at Sculpture Space, Family Nurturing Center, Compassion Kids,Cosmopolitan Center, Habitat for Humanity, JCTOD Youth Outreach, Loretto Center and United Cerebral Palsy. Others stayed on campus to entertain a group of children from the Cornhill area of Utica.

The Honorable William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, will give a free public lecture at Hamilton College on Tuesday evening Nov. 9 in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. The doors will open at 6 p.m.