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Williams College Addressing New Bias IncidentsiBerkshires.com Staff,
10:03PM / Monday, November 04, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – Saying the college has to “resist hatred in all its forms,” the president of Williams Monday informed the campus community of recent bias incidents at the school. Maud Mandel sent a college-wide email to provide details on the incidents, talk about how affected students are being supported and point out that the college’s code of conduct will be brought to bear on any members of the student body found to be responsible. The recent incidents appear to be targeting both Jewish and Black students at the school. “In one case, a table painted with the U.S. and Israeli flags was placed outside on the Frosh Quad,” >> Read More |
Williams College Gets $105M in Bonding for WCMA, Capital Projects| 02:45PM / Tuesday, October 29, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williams College has received more than $105 million bonding toward construction of the new art museum and other campus capital projects. The college announced on Monday that MassDevelopment has issued a $105,820,000 tax-exempt bond on behalf of the president and Trustees of Williams College. The organization will use bond proceeds to finance several projects on the college's campus, including (1) building and equipping a new art museum and multipurpose recreation center, (2) implementing the college's energy and carbon master plan, (3) renovating and equipping dormitories and dining facilities, (4) reimbursing the college for >> Read More |
Mount Greylock Making Lighting Improvements on CampusBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:39PM / Tuesday, October 29, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The new field and track is not the only upgrade to Mount Greylock's outdoor athletic facilities this fall. In addition to the new multisport grass field ringed by an eight-lane running track, the school is slated next month to have the lights at its current varsity soccer/lacrosse field retrofitted with new LED fixtures. Interim Superintendent Joseph Bergeron said Thursday that the new lights will be mounted on the existing poles around John T. Allen Field. Bergeron said the replacement project will be funded, "through a National Grid program where 50 percent of the cost is a grant and 50 percent comes over years through on-bill >> Read More |
Mount Greylock School Committee 'Struggles' with High-Stakes MCAS QuestionBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:41AM / Monday, October 21, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee last week had a microcosm of the debate with which voters around the commonwealth will grapple when they go to the polls over the next few weeks: whether to continue using the MCAS test as a requirement for a high school diploma. Question 2 on the Nov. 5 ballot, if passed, would eliminate the current practice requiring high school students to pass the 10th grade Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test in order to graduate from school. The issue arose at the October meeting of the regional school committee in the context of advising the body's delegate to this fall's Massachusetts >> Read More |
Mount Greylock School Committee Weighs New Public Comment PolicyBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:08AM / Wednesday, October 16, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee Thursday discussed a change to its policy on public comment at School Committee meetings in light of a recent Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling. Jose Constantine, who chairs the School Committee's Policy and Governance Subcommittee, explained to his colleagues that the state's highest court has decided that school committees cannot enforce rules that strive to maintain civility at its sessions. "We can't limit or control what's said," Constantine said. The existing district policy includes the following language: "Improper conduct and remarks will not be >> Read More |
Work Begins on New Williams College Museum of ArtBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:28AM / Tuesday, October 15, 2024 | |
The museum is projected to open in fall 2027. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Site work has already begun on the new Williams College Museum of Art with a grand opening projected in fall 2027. The building will feature a single-story layout with expansive public spaces and integrated landscape on the site of the old Williams Inn. "The other thing that I love to highlight at this early point in talking about the building's location is it is at the entrance to campus and at the entrance to town, and it carries a really energizing message that Williams and Williamstown are a place of creativity and community," said Pamela Franks, Class of 1956 director of the >> Read More |
Williams College 'Pluriverse' Pavilion Example of Intersection of DisciplinesBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:51PM / Tuesday, October 08, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A Williams College class has brought together art and architecture, sustainability and design, and learned a whole lot about carpentry and math, in a curling, open pavilion on Main Street. The product of professor Giuseppina Forte's fall 2023 class "Design for the Pluriverse" took nearly a year to design, model and construct and is meant to be a welcoming space to meditate and connect. President Maud Mandel said she'd been getting quite a few queries about the little structure between First Congregational Church and Hopkins Hall. "If you tell them you're building a pluriverse, they just kind of >> Read More |
Mount Greylock Class of 1975 Planning 50th Reunion| 01:09PM / Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional High School class of 1975 has begun the process of planning its 50th class reunion. Organizers are looking to update the current class list and are reaching out to family, relatives and friends to help in this endeavor. What is needed is the graduates' names (maiden name or name change, if applicable) along with email and phone numbers. Email Suzy Gigliotti at weeze56@verizon.net with this information. Anyone interested in being on the planning committee or having any suggestions as to what you would like as part of the festivities, please note that in your email. Graduates/attendees are
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Mount Greylock District Addressing Shortfall in State ReportBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:26AM / Monday, September 23, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District is working to address a deficiency identified in the commonwealth's recent Special Education and Civil Rights Monitoring Report. The three-school district last spring went through a periodic review by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education that focused on standards ranging from "licensure and professional development" to "parent/student/community engagement" to "equal access." The district was found to have implemented "universal standards" in 27 of the 29 criteria covered in the review. One criterion where the Lanesborough-Williamstown >> Read More |
Mount Greylock School Committee Accepts Gifts for DEI Work, Nutrition ProgramBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:09PM / Sunday, September 01, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee last week accepted a couple of financial gifts to the district and heard that a project eight years in the making should be ready for use this spring. Interim Superintendent Joseph Bergeron told the committee that the district's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Advisory Committee is taking shape and will within the next couple of months develop a request for proposals to find a consultant for the district. The school district, which previously received a commitment from the town of Williamstown for up to $66,000 of the town's American Rescue Plan Act funds to pay for that >> Read More |
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