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Enhanced Curriculum Puts Focus on Experience
When the Class of 2025 arrives this fall, they’ll be among the first students to experience Trinity’s enhanced curriculum, which offers new ways to prepare them for the future. In this video, admitted students learned about the wellness program and experiential certificates that will help them stand out and make a difference.

Trinity Community Celebrates the Enrollment of the Class of 2025
During the second admissions cycle to be greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, Trinity College has enrolled 553 outstanding students as its Class of 2025. “We have an amazing group of Bantams coming,” said Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Adrienne Oddi.

Berger-Sweeney Joins Virtual Conversation on ‘Race, Class, Higher Education, and Democracy’
Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney took part recently in a virtual conversation called “Race, Class, Higher Education, and Democracy,” hosted by The Chronicle of Higher Education, a national leader in higher education journalism.

Trinity Community Invests in Students for 2020 Fundraising Success
Trinity alumni, family, and friends stepped up to support students, faculty, and the college as a whole during an especially difficult year. Generous gifts contributed to the Student Emergency and Equity Fund, enabled Trinity to meet financial aid needs of students, and made the college’s first Giving Week a success.

Fighting Food Insecurity through Trinity’s Dream Camp
Dream Camp at Trinity College continued this summer with remote learning and programs to support the most critical needs of participating families. To combat the food insecurity experienced by many campers, Dream Camp teamed up with a cooking show host to introduce the Dream Camp Relief Meals Initiative.

Class of 2020 Making the Most of Virtual Tools for Career Success
Supporting new graduates in a difficult job market, the college’s Center for Student Success and Career Development is leveraging the power of Trinity’s alumni community through the Bantam Career Network and the new 2020 Connect program.

How Trinity College Went Remote: An Oral History
As the college prepares for a fall semester that will see a combination of in-person, remote, and hybrid courses, take an in-depth look at the Information Services division’s spring 2020 pandemic response, including how the team helped Trinity make the unprecedented transition to distance learning.

Celebrating the Trinity College Class of 2020
The Trinity College community recently celebrated the graduates of the Class of 2020 through two online events. Members of this year’s graduating class were honored with a virtual Baccalaureate program and a special tribute video, both of which they could view remotely with their families from anywhere around the world.

At the Top of Their Game: Alumni Leading Professional Sports
Five high-profile Trinity alumni came together virtually on May 1, 2020, to offer their perspectives on the future of professional sports in the U.S. and abroad, and to share their stories about how they used their liberal arts education to achieve their professional goals. Nearly 1,000 people watched the event live online.

Hartford Business Journal Names President Berger-Sweeney, Two Trinity Alumni to ‘Power 50’ List
The Hartford Business Journal’s first ranking of the region’s most powerful figures includes Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney and two prominent Trinity alumni: House Minority Leader Themis Klarides ’87 and Paul Mounds ’07, the chief of staff to Gov. Ned Lamont.

Class of 2019 Alumni: Where Are They Now?
Alumni from the Class of 2019 are achieving their post-graduation goals of employment, graduate studies, military or volunteer service, and other fulfilling pursuits. In a testament to the value of a liberal arts education today, recent data gathered from 87 percent of the members of the Class of 2019 showed a 97-percent positive outcome rate.

The Future is Female (and Urban)
As part of “Women at the Summit,” Trinity’s celebration of 50 years of coeducation at the college, the Center for Urban and Global Studies (CUGS) recognizes several of the women who have worked with the center during its 13 years on campus. They talk about their time at CUGS, their accomplishments, their mentors, and their advice for current students.

Trinity Community Continues to Gather — in Virtual Spaces
Being separated physically has not kept the Trinity College community from connecting this semester. While the COVID-19 pandemic prevents large gatherings in spaces like the Washington Room, Vernon Social, or the Chapel, groups across campus are getting creative by moving events and activities online and inviting people to attend from wherever they are.

Supporting Fellow Students
As the world adjusts to changing realities and uncertainty brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, Trinity College students are stepping up with financial support and other resources to help one another. The Student Government Association has collected money from student groups that would have been spent on spring events and has launched a crowdsourced network of support for their peers.

Trinity’s Writing Center Mentors Support International Students
To help ease the transition to living and studying on an American campus, a pilot program introduced in fall 2019 in Trinity’s Allan K. Smith Center for Writing and Rhetoric connects first-year international students with mentors who provide academic and social support.

Black Solidarity Conference Inspires Trinity Student Leaders
Giovanni Jones ’21 says that attending the Black Solidarity Conference with Trinity’s Multicultural Affairs Council (MAC) was a transformative experience: ‘Connecting with students from different colleges and universities and engaging in all these powerful workshops inspires me to continue being a leader.’

Trinity Co-Hosts Conference for College and University Chaplains
Trinity College and Hartford Seminary recently co-hosted the annual conference of the National Association of College and University Chaplains (NACUC), which ran from February 10 through 12, 2020, at various Hartford locations, including the Trinity campus.

First-Year Mentors: Helping Students Find Their Place
Emily Wickles ’20 reflects on her experience in the First-Year Seminar Program as a mentor to 15 new Trinity students. “Mentee-mentor relationships do not and should not stop after the seminar is over. These relationships are indicative of a greater mentoring culture at Trinity,” she says.

‘Women of Distinction’
President Joanne Berger-Sweeney and several other members of the Trinity community are among the 30 women leaders named by Hartford Magazine as Women of Distinction. Honored alongside President Berger-Sweeney are: Jamie Brätt ’05; Karen M. Jarmoc M’04, P’18; Antoinette Lazarus P’18; and Filomena Soyster P’06.

Wall of Honor Pays Tribute to a Tradition of Philanthropy
Inscribed on the Trinity College Wall of Honor under the Fuller Arch are 130 names of individuals, families, and organizations whose generosity has contributed to Trinity’s distinctive liberal arts education with funds for priorities such as financial aid, capital improvements, or essential resources for innovative programs.

Celebrating the ‘Herstory’ of Trinity’s Women & Gender Resource Action Center
As part of Trinity College’s celebration of 50 years of coeducation, the Women & Gender Resource Action Center (WGRAC) recently hosted a walk through its own “herstory” at Trinity. “WGRAC Then & Now: 1970s to Present” included a reception and a panel discussion about WGRAC’s past, present, and future.

Trinity’s ‘One Small Step’ Dialogues Now Online
Recordings from the fall 2018 visit to Trinity by One Small Step, a national StoryCorps project that brings together Americans with differing political views, are now available online. Trinity was the first college to partner with StoryCorps on this initiative aimed at listening and finding common ground.

Hartford Symphony Orchestra Coming to Trinity College Chapel
Acclaimed concert organist Christopher Houlihan ’09 will perform with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra in a pair of concerts at the Trinity College Chapel this fall as part of the 2019 Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford (ASOFH). The concerts—scheduled for Friday, September 27, at 8.00 p.m. and Sunday, September 29, at 3.00 p.m.—are the opening and closing events of the festival.

Proud to Study STEM in a Liberal Arts Context
Trinity engineering alumna Shakira Ramos Crespo ’02 and Alison J. Draper, director of Trinity’s Science Center, recently co-authored a letter to the editor of The Hartford Courant to speak up for the benefits of studying STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) in a liberal arts environment such as Trinity’s.

Trinity Student-Athletes Find Rewarding Mentoring Opportunities with Capitol Squash
For the past five years, members of the Trinity College squash teams have been participating in Capitol Squash, an after-school program in which kids from the Hartford community come to Trinity to learn about the sport from mentors, including the Bantams.

Reaching Across Political Divides
Community members of all backgrounds and beliefs participated in One Small Step, a national StoryCorps project that’s bringing together Americans with differing political views. Trinity is the first college to partner with StoryCorps on this initiative aimed at listening and finding common ground.