Last Words

Voices of the Trinity College community in the media

“My vision is to further strengthen Trinity and its academic core so we are ensuring that our curriculum is the right content for a 21st century graduate to be able to compete out there in the world.”
—Dan Lugo, Trinity College president, on the College’s role in the future; WTNH’s This Week in Connecticut, September 14, 2025

I really want my students to be excited and to feel that what I’m teaching is relevant to them and to their lives.”
—Sarah Bilston, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of English, on creativity in the classroom, including a project in her “Victorian Short Fiction” course that asks students to write a ghost story on TikTok; Trinity College Inauguration Symposium I: Human Creativity, October 17, 2025

“For 200 years, we have been invested in the success of Trinity because it has so much to do with the future of the city of Hartford.”
—Arunan Arulampalam, mayor of Hartford, on the interconnectedness of Trinity College and Hartford; Trinity College Inauguration, October 18, 2025

“Alumni of small colleges have a clear edge when it comes to career networking.”
—Sonia Cardenas, dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs, on LinkedIn’s new college rankings, which placed Trinity as the No. 4 top liberal arts college in the nation and the highest ranked of its NESCAC peers; University Business, September 23, 2025

“We realized we weren’t just training voter captains for one election, but we were also seeding the community with people who are motivated about their civic duty. We’re hoping that continues to spread over time.”
—Dang Do, assistant professor of political science, on the Voter Captain Project, for which he received the 2025 Outstanding Civic Engagement Project award from the American Political Science Association; trincoll.edu, September 29, 2025

“For today’s college students, my strongest advice is to prioritize gaining career-aligned work experience as early as possible—ideally beginning in their first year of college.”
—Jane Swift ’87, CEO of the nonprofit Education at Work and former governor of Massachusetts, with suggestions for students who want to prepare for the work world; Higher Education Digest, September 29, 2025

“She’s extremely smart. She understands the game. . . . I talk to her a lot.”
— Major League Baseball All-Star George Springer of the Toronto Blue Jays on his sister Lena Springer, Trinity assistant professor of physical education and head softball coach; Softball on SI, October 23, 2025