Connecticut College

Human remains unearthed on the Connecticut College campus in 1981 have been repatriated to the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe after extensive collaboration between university officials and tribal representatives.

Connecticut College is doing a geophysical study on part of its campus to search for Indigenous settlement remains. In 1981, a burial ground was uncovered at the school’s lower athletic field, located on the banks of the River Thames.

A small group of faculty, who wish to remain anonymous to avoid retribution, told WSHU in a statement that they felt betrayed and sidelined by the Board of Trustees' process.

President Katherine Bergeron will step down in late June after protests by students at Connecticut College. Typically, the Dean of Faculty serves as interim president, but that has not happened.

After 10 years as president, Katherine Bergeron said she had thought hard about being accused of scheduling a college fundraiser at a Florida club facing allegations of racism and antisemitism, the school’s chief diversity officer resigning and bullying in leadership.

Hundreds of students at Connecticut College came out Wednesday to support the first rally by school faculty and staff calling on President Katherine Bergeron to resign over a controversial planned fundraiser.

Around 30 students at Connecticut College have locked themselves in key buildings on campus to ramp up pressure on the school’s Board of Trustees to oust their president.

Students watch as calls for the resignation and removal of Connecticut College President Katherine Bergeron continue to grow from the school’s faculty.

Almost a week after Connecticut College canceled a fundraiser in Florida that led to the school’s chief diversity officer quitting in protest, students now want President Katherine Bergeron to resign.

Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day. Those lost to the disease are remembered at a special exhibition at Connecticut College in New London.