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“The pandemic has taught us that we can’t go back to the way things were, nor should we want to. You are too good, too smart, and too wise to go back to normal. You will make a future that is better than normal,” Hartford HealthCare President and CEO Jeffrey A. Flaks said to the graduates of the Trinity College Class of 2021 during his Commencement address. “There is, as they say, a light at the end of this long tunnel. That light is you. This is your moment to shine.”

Beginning in fall 2021 with the incoming Class of 2025, the Trinity College curriculum will include a broad variety of credit-bearing co-curricular experiences and a new wellness program.

Schneider becomes the first scholar from a small college to be named

Hartford Youth Scholars (HYS) held its first drive-by matriculation ceremony on the Trinity College campus in July 2020, in honor of the 26 months of hard work by rising ninth-graders in The Collegiate Academy.

The interactive story map, complete with aerial photos of campus and close-up pictures of buildings, documents the school’s unique physical history.

Trinity's Center for Teaching and Learning program works to promote effective teaching in all its dimensions, including the online instruction and virtual interaction that became a way of life in the spring 2020 semester, when all Trinity courses were quickly transitioned to a remote format.

Student and faculty volunteers from Trinity College provided hands-on workshops involving science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) for more than 80 sixth- through ninth-grade girls who came to Trinity’s campus to participate in the AAUW of Connecticut’s seventh annual Tech Savvy conference.

Trinity College has opened the 13,000-square-foot Trinity Innovation Center in downtown Hartford as a space for boundary-crossing collaborations and creativity. Located on the third floor of One Constitution Plaza, the new center will house Trinity’s partnership with Infosys; the Digital Health CT accelerator; and new innovation and entrepreneurship programming for students.

Ten start-up companies recently showcased their development work that has been supported by Digital Health CT, a Hartford-based business accelerator program in which Trinity College is a partner. President Joanne Berger-Sweeney has said that the goal of the partnership is to “accelerate start-up companies focused on digital health technologies, thus deepening the relevance of our liberal arts education and spurring an entrepreneurial ecosystem in our Connecticut home.”

Trinity celebrated National Transgender Awareness Week with a talk by Chris Mosier, the first transgender athlete to make a men’s U.S. National Team (in triathlon), the first transgender athlete in ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue, and the first transgender athlete sponsored by Nike.