The Westminster Wardrobe is a new professional clothing exchange on campus, created this spring to help students dress for current, graduate, or post-grad opportunities. The initiative began with Honors Dean Dr. Alicia Cunningham-Bryant, donors, and the office of fellowship advising. Yvonne Francis, a Westminster alum and manager of Honors College Operations & Engagement, and Sarah Phillips, a sophomore, sociology major and Westminster Wardrobe Student Manager, both said ho

The Purple Basket is running on 10% of its budget compared to past semesters according to Dean of Students Kellie Gerbers, who is temporarily overseeing the Purple Basket. “The Purple Basket is a campus resource designed to assist students facing nutrition and food insecurity while enrolled at Westminster,” Gerbers said. “The Purple Basket is part of Westminster’s larger efforts to address short-term basic needs for students and build a community of care.” Since the past year

More students accepted the offer to join the Honors College this year compared to previous years. Honors is a small cohort at Westminster, this year it saw a jump in enrollment. “Usually we sit around 40-42 incoming students and about six to eight lateral entry students with a mixture of internal Westminster transfers into honors and external transfers into Westminster,” said Alicia Cunningham-Bryant, Dean of the Honors College. In a normal year, the Honors College has aroun

President Trump issued a record-breaking number of directives in his first 100 days in office, including an executive order on Jan 21, titled “ENDING ILLEGAL DISCRIMINATION AND RESTORING MERIT-BASED OPPORTUNITY.” The order required federal agencies to terminate existing diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility mandates and included language “encouraging the private sector to end illegal DEI discrimination and preferences.” As a private school, Westminster University ex

After two days of voting and weeks of campaigning, the results for the new ASW representatives are in: ASW President: Max Gutierrez VP of Internal Affairs: Chase White VP of Government Affairs: Simeon Hammond VP of Campus Affairs: Hailey Kim ASW announced their results this afternoon after students voted for their representatives over Canvas. Photo courtesy of ASW. With ASW elections in full swing, candidates are ready to express how they want to change campus engagement. S

“My core concern on campus as it relates to the male experience is that it’s largely avoidant,” said Brian Wierman, business professor and co-chair of Westminster faculty’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council. Wierman hosted the Men’s and Allies Studies Workshop on Thursday, Feb 6. Wierman was the only male in attendance, with a small turnout. This led to a more intimate roundtable discussion on student engagement and male allyship on campus amongst attendants. Wierman sa