The current head of Whitman is Claire F. Gmachl; she is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University.

Josue Lajeunesse, a custodian at Whitman College, is a main subject of the documentary film The Philosopher Kings, and is also an active humanitarian working to make clean water accessible to the people of his home village of Lasource, Haiti.

[2] Whitman College participates in seasonal intramural athletics, including soccer, volleyball and Ultimate Frisbee.

Whitman also organizes a variety of other recreational activities, including a craft circle and the Jane Austen literary society.

By the time the 10-building complex in the Collegiate Gothic style opened in August, it had cost Princeton $136 million... Gold-plating new dorms raises issues of taste and donor ego.