Amy Heasley Williams

The College of Wooster today reaffirmed its commitment to being “a place of studies for all,” as its founding president, Willis Lord, declared in 1866, and to doing so within the new framework of the law, said in-coming President Anne McCall, following the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision to reject the legal precedent of race-conscious practices in college admissions. “Our total student body is comprised of 24 percent U.S. students of color and another 15-16 percent international students, who come to Wooster because they know how much they benefit from living, learning, and creating meaning together with peers of different backgrounds and identities. By the time our students graduate, they are ready to engage respectfully with people of a rich range of identities and to contribute constructively to a complex world,” said McCall. “Opportunity is not distributed equally, yet our world desperately needs the talent, creativity, and efforts of all. Creating a genuinely diverse, welcoming, and inclusive campus community where this process can occur is central to Wooster’s promise and to our future.” “We are studying today’s Supreme Court decision in so far as it might limit the tools institutions of higher education may use to enroll a bright, ambitious, and diverse student body, but it neither constrains our ambition nor diminishes our commitment to our founding principles. We will work together to realize them while remaining compliant with all federal and state laws,” added McCall. Read statement: wooster.edu/2023/06/29/woost…