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Robin Ottenad Galloway '90, who has served in an executive finance role at a number of food-based industries, speaks to Monmouth College students after delivering last year's Wiswell-Robeson Lecture, part of a speaker series with an agribusiness focus.

Monmouth College adds agribusiness, finance majors added to meet evolving student, workforce demand

Monmouth College is expanding its academic offerings to meet evolving student interests, workforce needs and opportunities in the region and beyond, adding two new majors, agribusiness management and finance, that will welcome their first students in t...

Aug 17, 2026, 11:48am EDT

JAKE SECRIST: The new staff member was educated nearby at Williamsfield High School and Carl Sandburg College before earning his bachelor's degree at Arizona State University.

Jake Secrist is Monmouth College's new director of development and legacy giving

A Billtown Bomber with a diverse resume has joined the staff of Monmouth College as its director of development and legacy giving. Jake Secrist, a graduate of Williamsfield High School, started his position on Aug. 3. "I'm looking forward to continui...

Aug 13, 2026, 12:43pm EDT

LETTERMEN: These workers make their way back to the ground after installing the Greek letters at the new home of Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Fraternity houses, video boards, digital sign are all good signs for student experience at Monmouth College

Over the past year, a new Monmouth College facility hasn't risen from the ground, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been a busy year in terms of physical upgrades. More than a dozen projects, which touch several areas of campus life, have been completed ...

Aug 11, 2026, 11:28am EDT

Monmouth Volleyball Earns AVCA Team Academic Award

The Monmouth College volleyball team earned the 2026 AVCA Team Academic Award with a GPA over 3.3 for the 2025-26 academic year. The Scots have earned the honor from the AVCA three years in a row and in 13 of the last 15 seasons. The 2025 team returne...

Jul 23, 2026, 12:00pm EDT

OFF TO THE RACES: A three-person "chariot" race was part of the Olympic competition between the teachers on the next-to-last day of the NEH summer institute.

Hands-on learning at Monmouth College about ancient life was another smash hit, hands down

Classics is having a moment. Over the weekend, The Odyssey cashed in at the global box office, smashing expectations by grossing $264.1 million. Call Monmouth College's summer institute on the ancient Olympics a prequel to that success. The two-week N...

Jul 23, 2026, 9:30am EDT

Scots Earns ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award

The Monmouth College baseball team was honored Wednesday by the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) with their eighth consecutive Team Academic Excellence Award. The 2025-26 ABCA Team Academic Excellence Awards are presented by Sports Attack a...

Jul 22, 2026, 11:55am EDT

DOC KIEFT TALKS: Terra Stephens '27, whose research was on Alzheimer's plaque disruptors, gestures to one of his slides during his July 15 presentation.

Doc Kieft summer research program sets Monmouth College's students apart

Most college students would have a difficult time defining such scientific terms as acetylcholinesterase, centrifugation and spectrophotometrically. For a group of nine Monmouth College students, though, the meaning of those words have been etched into...

Jul 21, 2026, 9:46am EDT

Track & Field Teams Earn Individual & Team Academic Honors

The Monmouth College track and field teams both earned All-Academic Team status from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) this week. In addition, four individuals earned All-Academic Athlete status. The Monmouth wom...

Jul 20, 2026, 3:14pm EDT

Scots Rack Up Nearly 200 MWC All-Academic Honors

Monmouth College had 161 student-athletes, representing 18 sports, named Midwest Conference Academic All-Conference on Wednesday. The Scots had 29 student-athletes earn Academic All-Conference in multiple sports for the Midwest Conference, resulting in...

Jul 15, 2026, 11:18am EDT

CLASS OF 2025: Four of the graduates continued their schooling at Illinois State University, including Izzy Gimm (left), while four began positions at Monmouth College (including Jackson Bergren (second from right). Also pictured are Paige Bergschneider and Zane Beebe.

Monmouth College hits 98% mark on Class of 2025's First Destination report

Marnie Steach, Monmouth College's executive director of career readiness, advising and student success, just completed a 14-year professional stint at her alma mater. But before she went, Steach had one last item of good news to announce. The Monmout...

Jul 6, 2026, 5:00pm EDT

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