OAE is the hub on campus for ensuring equal access to the Williams experience for students with disabilities. We work individually with students, faculty, staff, and administrators to eliminate barriers and assist the College in meeting its obligations under federal and state disability laws. OAE also plays an active role in shaping campus discourse around accessibility and in furthering the College’s commitment to an inclusive and equitable educational experience for all.
Campus Location: Paresky Center, room 203
Phone: (413) 597-4672
Email: oaestaff@williams.edu
CSS seeks to equitably oversee collective safety for our campus, while providing services and resources that meet individual needs. We are especially mindful of the concerns of underrepresented individuals and constituencies.
Website: https://www.williams.edu/css/
Campus Location: Hopkins Hall, basement
Phone: (413) 597-4444
The Chaplains’ role at Williams is to encourage growth in the spiritual and moral dimensions of human wholeness alongside the College’s attention to growth in the intellectual, physical, emotional, and psychological dimensions of person-hood. The Chaplains are available to serve all students, faculty, staff, and the broader Williams community—inclusive of those with faith, those who claim no faith, and all who seek deeper meaning in life.
Website: https://chaplain.williams.edu
Campus Location: Paresky Center, room 205
Phone: (413) 597-2483
The Dean’s Office provides holistic support as Williams students navigate their experiences at the College. In partnership with students, faculty and staff across campus, we aim to promote students’ growth and abilities during and after their college experience.
Campus Location: Hopkins Hall, room 200
Phone: (413) 597-4171
Email: deansoffice@williams.edu
Our dining mission is to provide our students with a community environment that delivers a nutritious, fresh, diverse, and sustainable dining experience. We operate with three core values: freshness, sustainability, and education (DEI). Our vision is to leverage innovation and technology to develop a community-based experience providing our students, faculty, and staff with the healthiest, freshest, most diverse, and most sustainable dining program possible.
Medical and Religious Dietary Support: https://dining.williams.edu/good-nutrition-special-diets/#medical-and-religious-dietary-support
Campus Location: Droppers House (main office)
Phone: (413) 597-2121
Email: dining@williams.edu
The Office of Global Education and Study Away aims to provide high quality off-campus educational opportunities. We hope for our students to learn to become more informed global citizens and meaningfully contribute to the greater issues and challenges of our day.
Website: https://study-away.williams.edu
Campus Location: Hopkins Hall, room 210
Phone: (413) 597-4262
Email: studyaway@williams.edu
The Housing and Residential Education team provides advisement and support for the students’ residential experience, including the selection, training, and ongoing supervision of student residential leaders and their community development & programming responsibilities, all undergraduate student housing assignments & selection processes, data management, room key/code distribution and check-ins/check-outs, and the student storage program in collaboration with Dorm Room Movers.
Website: https://campus-life.williams.edu
Campus Location: Paresky Center, room 219
Phone: (413) 597-4747
Email: housing@williams.edu
The Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Williams College dedicates itself to a community where all members can thrive. We work to eliminate harmful bias and discrimination, close opportunity gaps, and advance critical conversations and initiatives that promote inclusion, equity, and social justice on campus and beyond.
Website: https://diversity.williams.edu
Campus Location: Hopkins Hall, room 110
Phone: (413) 597-4376
The Davis Center advances broad campus engagement with complex issues of identity, history, and cultures as they affect intellectual, creative, and social life.
Campus Location: Davis Center
Integrative Wellbeing Services declares thriving as the goal for all students. Through the development of our innovative construct, “integrative wellbeing,” we will cultivate student skills and practices that attend to mind, body, heart, and spirit, while still offering the full array of mental health assessment and treatment services.
Website: https://health.williams.edu/what-is-integrative-wellbeing/
Campus Location: Pond House for Wellbeing
Phone: (413) 597-2353
Email: iws@williams.edu
Williams has partnered with TalkSpace to offer free therapeutic and psychiatric services to enrolled students. TalkSpace is a HIPAA compliant, mobile app/web-based unlimited messaging therapy option, which also includes four, 30 minute live video sessions a month. It may be used year-round, on or off campus. TalkSpace communication is confidential and secure.
Students can connect with the on-call therapist after business hours, weekends and over breaks by calling (413) 597-2353 and selecting option 2 or by calling Campus Safety and Security (413) 597-4444 and asking to speak to the on-call therapist. Students will be assisted by a trained clinician with expertise in student crisis counseling and assessment.
Our dedicated International Student Services team is committed to providing comprehensive support, from navigating immigration requirements to fostering a vibrant global community.
Website: https://iss.williams.edu
Campus Location: Hopkins Hall, room 108
Email: iss@williams.edu
The Office of Sexual Assault Prevention & Response and Health Education aims to create a safer and healthier Williams campus for all. We approach intimate violence, substance use, mental health, sexuality, sleep, and other issues from a public health perspective. Each individual has the ability shape our community into one which is more comfortable and connected by making informed choices for themselves and being an active bystander. Through prevention, response, and education, our office seeks to empower students to create a better Williams.
Website: https://www.williams.edu/sapr/
Campus Location: Hopkins Hall, room 407
We believe that every Williams student will be challenged in different ways by their coursework and classes. We’re here to help by providing tutoring, workshops, and other services, most of which are performed by your fellow students. Our professional staff is also always here to help!
Campus Location: Sawyer Library, rooms 429 and 431
Contact information for the Writing Center, Content Tutoring, and Quantitative Skills Programs available here
Campus Location: Thompson Health Center
Phone: (413) 597-2206
Develops, oversees, and maintains processes for receiving all Title IX complaints and reports of sexual harassment, sexual violence, and related allegations of misconduct. Keeps parties apprised of the status of complaints. Ensures investigations of reports and complaints of sexual misconduct are adequate, reliable, confidential, and impartial. Works to strengthen the culture that supports a safe and respectful learning, working, and living environment on campus.
Website: https://titleix.williams.edu
Campus Location: Hopkins Hall, room 110
Phone: (413) 597-3301
Email: tcc2@williams.edu