The conference aimed to give these college leaders a chance to meet one another and to network, to collect information, and to reflect. We purposefully kept the number of attendees small to help foster substantive, meaningful discussions. This gathering of nearly 40 college presidents and administrators from 18 selective liberal arts colleges engaged in an examination of the leadership role that presidents play in relationship to the questions posed by our students. That is why Trinity, in collaboration with the Consortium on High Achievement and Success (CHAS), played host to “Setting the Tone: Student Activism, Community, and Presidential Leadership” in October 2016.
Student protests here and throughout the country have brought into focus pressing issues that have been brewing for some time. We at Trinity College are living many of the same experiences that affect others who are not members of our community. As a college president, I see how our campus is a microcosm of our society at large. Our nation’s recent climate - with the tumultuous presidential election, instances of racial discrimination and profiling, and situations involving the intolerance of individual differences - has given everyone pause about the state of the world we live in today.
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