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are delighted to welcome several new staff members to the Division of
Student Life. Berenecea Johnson has accepted the position of Associate
Dean of Students for Diversity and Accessibility (formerly called the
Assistant Dean for Multicultural Affairs).
Berenecea did her undergraduate work at Dillard College; received her
M.A. in Social Work from Boston University and her Ph.D. in Social Work
from Clark Atlanta University. She comes to us from Georgia State
University, where she has been an Assistant Professor of Social Work,
and Morehouse College where she was Program Manager for the Upward
Bound Math/Science program. Berenecea will be working with cultural
student organizations, coordinating accommodations for students with
disabilities, and generally providing leadership and guidance for the
College?s diversity efforts.
- The Division of Student Life encompasses manny critical areas of academic life.
Student scholarship in philosophy is exemplified by work like that
of Syed Wamiq Jawaid '05 (philosophy and economics), who presented
papers on Nietzsche and the "Genealogy of Fundamentalism" to the SUNY
Buffalo Conference on Asian Philosophy and an Asian studies conference
at Dartmouth College.
- support services.
The Department of Philosophy has an endowed chair, the Alan McCullough
Jr. Distinguished Visiting Professorship. Scholars holding the
McCullough Chair will provide the program with broad expertise in
political philosophy.
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In its mission to provide a strong grounding in philosophy for all
Hamilton students, the department participates in many of the College's
interdisciplinary sophomore seminar courses. Race Matters, taught by
associate professor Todd Franklin, considers the impact of race on
culture, community and public policy. Other sophomore seminar offerings
include courses on globalization and ethics, co-taught by Richard
Werner, John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy; and on the
philosophical and biological idea concept of normality, co-taught by
associate professor Katheryn Doran.
The Division of Student Life, headed by the office of the Dean of
Students, is primarily concerned with the quality of learning for
students outside of the formal classroom setting. The services within
the division support and augment the educational purposes and goals
outlined in the
College Catalogue.
Hamilton recognizes that students develop intellectually and socially
while participating as active members of a residential community. The
College therefore has a responsibility to integrate the goals of a
liberal arts education into its residential programs. Students are
challenged to understand values and lifestyles different from their
own, to relate meaningfully with one another, to develop the capacity
to appreciate cultural and aesthetic differences and to accept
responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
