Dear Willard College Communities,

We are thrilled to announce that the recently inaugurated Willard College College of Law is accepting applications for Fall 2023 semester. While we continue to face a few small hurdles, including full vetting and accreditation by the state and demonstration of compliance with the standards of the American Bar Association, we are confident that the Willard Way will shine forth. In addition to the standard menu of First Year Law courses, the Willard College College of Law will offer a specializes set of courses in Higher Education Law.

With great excitement,

Dean Karl Erique Goovier

Dear Campus Community,

The Board of Trustees approved renovations of the Willard College Presidential Residential Compound. The PRC has not seen significant renovations since 2015. Since then, the campus has experienced significant challenges, including COVID, discrepancies between CARE Act Relief and the subsequent outlays by the college, the loss of many faculty and staff both to COVID and to the lay offs that we were forced to undertake. And so it is with great joy, that we can begin this important process of rebuilding our campus and college community.

Cheryl Tina Fae Cotton is working closely with architects, landscape designers, and interior decorators to bring the interior and exterior of the home up to 2023 standards.

Sincerely, Dean Thomas Gristle, Vice President of Financial Affairs and Chair of the Campus Beautification Committee

Dear Campus Community,

Allow me to introduce you to the newest addition to the Office of the President. Dr. Gary Chorizo joins us after a long career in government relations. He represented various industries in Washington, D.C., including the Pork Manufacturers Association, the Association of Tobacco Distributors, Juul, and Halliburton. Dr. Chorizo will serve as the Willard College Vice President Community Relations, Marketing, and Student Enrollment.

Please keep an eye out for a presentation by Dr. Chorizo on the 2023 Willard College Rebrand Campaign!

Sincerely, Provost Vandergrind

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

 It has been too long since we all got together. And while the Willard College History Department has faced a series of exciting realignments, they remain one of the more vibrant programs on our very storied campus. We will gather at the Circ Bar on the lobby level of the Marriott Downtown Philadelphia Hotel on THURSDAY January 5th from 515pm-630pm. Please click here to receive your free Willard College Free Drink Coupon courtesy of the Willard College Office of the President.

With warm and high regards,

Donalds Rutrl, Personal Assistant to the President, Dr. Henry Cotton

Dear Willard College Alumni and Former, Present, and Future Faculty, Please join members of the Willard College Administration for a drink. It has been too long since we all got together. And while the Willard College History Department has faced a series of exciting realignments, they remain one of the more vibrant programs on our very storied campus. We will gather at the Circ Bar on the lobby level of the Marriott Downtown Philadelphia Hotel on THURSDAY January 5th from 515pm-630pm. Please click here to receive your free Willard College Free Drink Coupon courtesy of the Willard College Office of the President.

Sincerely, President Henry Cotton and Dr. Cheryl Tina Fae Cotton

Dear Alumni and Faculty, It is with heartfelt regret, that we regret to inform you that Willard College will not be providing Free Drink Coupons for the upcoming Willard College Alumni and Faculty event at the American Historical Association.

Provost Vandergrind

Dear Campus Friends,

It is with mixed emotions, as these announcements always are, that we inform the community that the Dean of the Willard College College of Music, Dr. Grad Muffins is leaving us to seek his fortunes in other endeavors. Starting in January, he will start an intensive four month training program in professional clowning in Bakersfield, CA. Provided he passes the course with a satisfactory grade, he looks forward to a promising career in traveling circus work. Dr. Muffins shared with us that he as “a passion for travel, entertainment, and the arts, and circus work seemed to check all the boxes”

We hope the circus finds its way back to Willard, which we know will be your home away from home away from home.

Fondly, Provost Vandergrind

President Cotton, Dr. Cheryl Tina Fae Cotton, Director of Campus Spiritual Life, Dr. Julien Donnerpass, Associate Director of Student Intellectual Pathways, Vanderbilt Snowden, Director of Student Academics, Vice President of Finances, Dr. Dominic Ponzi, Provost Vandergrind, Gustav Kissenbezug, President of the Board of Trustees, Dr. Lusitania Glüm, PhD, Director of Marketing and Promotion, and Dr. Lester Carraway,  Interim Executive Director of Faculty Enhancements cordially invite you to the 2022 Holiday Celebration to ring in the end of a great semester and the holiday season. 

Come and enjoy a wide variety of food. Because of several incidents last year, alcohol will not be made available to faculty. Administrators need only show their campus id cards and they will be served beverages of their choice.

To end the evening there will be a basket raffle in which everyone has the opportunity to take home a lovely holiday gift. We ask that you RSVP directly, in writing, to Dr. Lester Carraway.

Sincerely, Dr. Henry Cotton, Friend and Comrade

Dear Willard Family,

A major gift from 1981 graduate Reynalde Nixon Buttercream will fund the replacement of the natural-grass field with artificial turf and the installation of lighting at Willard College’s Charcot Stadium. The playing surface will be named Nixon Buttercream Field at Charcot Stadium in recognition of his donation of $30 million for the project, which will greatly expand the uses of the premier outdoor gathering space on campus. 

Nixon Buttercream’s student-athlete career included a half season of golf while earning his bachelor’s degree in Exploratory. A longtime resident of The Bahamas, where he works in international finance. Nixon Buttercream is the step-father of Stewie Cake, Willard College’s longest serving full tuition paying student, and also the step-father (from a previous marriage) of Pepper McGhee, Willard’s star quarterback!

Thanks to the Nixon Buttercream Family for all you have, will, and do do, for the Willard Family.

Humbly, Dr. Henry Cotton, President, and Athletic Director, Jason “Jimmy” Johnson

Dear Dear Colleagues,

As we slip into the holiday seasons, I wanted to share an important insight made by my team. The idea that “students are our why” is not student-centered. It makes the whole student-faculty question one centered, selfishly, on the faculty. Rather, our students “have a why.” Grading then becomes our attempt to divine their purpose. Please refocus and realign as you can for the remaining weeks of the semester.

Sincerely, Dr. Julien Donnerpass, Associate Director of Student Intellectual Pathways