From all accounts, the 167th Commencement Exercises at Monmouth College on Sunday, May 19, were a huge success. From the warm and sunny spring day that allowed for an outdoor ceremony on the College's Wallace Hall Plaza, to the traditional pageantry o...
May, 19 2024 - Verified by Monmouth CollegeIt's been almost a year since Monmouth College graduated its Class of 2023, and nearly all of its members are either employed or continuing their education. According to the College's annual First Destination Survey, which tracks information from with...
May, 13 2024 - Verified by Monmouth CollegeFor 25 years, Trudi Peterson has shaped Monmouth College students' lives. Now the much-honored communication studies professor will look to do the same in another role for people who have turned to the United States for help. On Dec. 18, Peterson will...
December, 18 2023 - Verified by Monmouth CollegeBack in May, Alexander Martinez-Urbina of Round Lake Beach, Illinois, was listed in the program for Monmouth College's 166th Commencement Exercises, along with nearly 200 other members of the Class of 2023. But on Dec. 14, he had a printed program al...
December, 15 2023 - Verified by Monmouth CollegeEvery first-year Monmouth College student takes at least one course from an academic department judged to be the best in the nation. Monmouth's communication studies department was recently named the recipient of the National Communication Association...
August, 28 2023 - Verified by Monmouth CollegeMonmouth College celebrated the contributions of its outstanding student leaders, faculty and staff members at this year's Highlander Awards ceremony, held April 19 in Mellinger Commons in the Center for Science and Business. One of the most prestigio...
May, 17 2023 - Verified by Monmouth CollegeOn Monmouth College's seventh annual Scots Day of Giving, Tartan Nation stepped up again in a very big way, with 767 alumni, faculty, staff and students from around the United States combining to contribute $309,406 on April 13. With around five hours...
April, 14 2023 - Verified by Monmouth CollegeAt a recent academic conference, a Monmouth College student demonstrated the academic benefit of video games, and two Monmouth faculty members won an award. At the annual conference of the Central States Communication Association, held last weekend in...
April, 12 2023 - Verified by Monmouth CollegeFour years after being recruited to play lacrosse at Monmouth College, Mackenzie Holmes '23 became a sought-after law school student. There wasn't a major press conference announcing the news, but Holmes will be taking her talents to the University of...
March, 29 2023 - Verified by Monmouth CollegeRoss Donnan started his Monmouth College baseball career in style, as his first hit as a Fighting Scot was a home run. Donnan is hoping to make a similar splash in an entirely different endeavor this spring, as he'll be a contestant on the NBC singin...
March, 06 2023 - Verified by Monmouth CollegeOctober was a month for Monmouth College students and their research to shine. Nearly two dozen Monmouth students and their professors traveled last month to three states in the Midwest to participate in and present at regional undergraduate research ...
November, 09 2022 - Verified by Monmouth CollegeMonmouth College's celebration of Black History Month in February pays tribute to an important local figure from the 19th century. This year's theme "Champion for Change" honors Champion Miller, a Black man who was a distinguished member of the Monmou...
January, 28 2022 - Verified by Monmouth CollegeThe M A M Trail was historically a direct route between Monmouth and Muscatine, Iowa, but now there's a new trail between the towns being blazed by Monmouth College students and alumni. Taking advantage of an internship opportunity, communication stud...
May, 26 2021 - Verified by Monmouth CollegeBalancing tensions in free speech to be topic of Monmouth's Fox Lecture on Feb. 24 Who gets to speak, and who doesn't, when everyone is a hero? That will be one of the questions answered by University of Kentucky professor Jackie Murray whe...
February, 13 2020 - Verified by Monmouth CollegeOutstanding faculty are at the heart of Monmouth College. That was a recurring theme during the College's Homecoming weekend, Oct. 18-19. Two professors - Trudi Peterson and Bill Urban - were honored at the Alumni Impact Awards on Friday. Ano...
October, 19 2019 - Verified by Monmouth CollegeTrudi Peterson freely admits that she hates speaking in public. But she teaches public speaking, among other courses in Monmouth College's communication studies curriculum, and she does it so well that she was named this year's recipient of the Coll...
October, 15 2019 - Verified by Monmouth CollegeMore than a dozen accomplished members of the Monmouth College family will be honored during Homecoming weekend, Oct. 18-20. The award ceremonies will be held Oct. 18-19. Award activities will begin the evening of Friday, Oct. 18, with the annual Al...
October, 14 2019 - Verified by Monmouth CollegeMore than 400 guests are expected to help celebrate Monmouth College's 2019 Homecoming weekend, Oct. 18-20. Events will include award ceremonies, reunions, a parade, a football game and other home Fighting Scots events, pre-game gatherings and a Sunday...
October, 10 2019 - Verified by Monmouth CollegeMonmouth College football coach Chad Braun is making a habit of opening the season with a ranked opponent and 2019 will be no exception when the Scots host Wheaton - ranked 22nd in the preseason - for a 1 p.m. kickoff Saturday at April Zorn Memorial St...
September, 05 2019 - Verified by Monmouth CollegeAre you ready for some great lectures? If the answer is "Yes," then Monmouth College football fans will want to make the short pre-game trek to Hewes Library for the second year of the Great Lecture Series. Started last fall, the series features...
September, 04 2019 - Verified by Monmouth CollegeA popular site for tourists, Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula has also been the site for the past three springs of a semester-abroad experience for Monmouth College students. At the final Monmouth Associates program of the academic year on May 16, Monmout...
May, 13 2019 - Verified by Monmouth CollegeMonmouth College students are directing Nov. 15-18 production of 'Almost, Maine' "One of the toughest things there is to deal with in life: love." The introductory notes to playwright John Cariani's Almost, Maine reminds us that love is diff...
November, 09 2018 - Verified by Monmouth College