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The Courier, Monmouth College's student newspaper, earns several statewide awards
After spending most of the school year writing about news on campus, Monmouth College's student newspaper made some news of its own. Earlier this month, The Courier earned an award for general excellence at the Illinois College Press Association's ann...
Feb 26, 2024, 12:13pm EST
Softball Drops Two Games on Opening Day
The Monmouth College softball team opened their 2024 season with two neutral site games on Saturday. In the opener, the Scots fell 6-2 to #21 Central and in the nightcap, they lost 9-8 to University of the Ozarks. No other information or player statist...
Feb 24, 2024, 10:04pm EST
Scots Win Five More Events Saturday, Both T&F Teams Finish Second
The Monmouth College track and field teams added four individual wins plus a relay win on Saturday as both the men's and women's team finished in second place at the Midwest Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships. Junior Maddie Boley (Beecher, I...
Feb 24, 2024, 7:34pm EST
Scots Win Three Events at First Day of MWC Indoor Championships
The Monmouth College track and field teams had three individual wins on Friday in the first day of the Midwest Conference Indoor Championships. Heading into Saturday's final day, the women's team is in second place with 60.5 points while the men's team...
Feb 23, 2024, 9:08pm EST
During Peace Corps Week, Monmouth College students reminded the agency transforms worldviews
You don't know what you don't know. That was a message conveyed by Monmouth College political science professor Jessica Vivian when she discussed her "life-transforming" experience in the Peace Corps. As the beginning of March nears, the federal pr...
Feb 23, 2024, 11:12am EST
Turner Plumer Named Second Team All-Midwest Conference
Monmouth College sophomore Turner Plumer (Canton, Illinois) was named Midwest Conference men's basketball second team all-conference on Thursday. Plumer is the Fighting Scots lone representative on the two six-player teams for the 2023-24 season. Plu...
Feb 22, 2024, 2:21pm EST
A Fighting Scot in Scotland: Vernon Hills' Walker playing big-time soccer while studying at Stirling
Madison Walker played her last women's soccer match for Monmouth College on Oct. 24, finishing as the Fighting Scots' eighth-leading career goal scorer with 25. The senior from Vernon Hills, Illinois, who lost a year with the Scots to COVID, might ca...
Feb 22, 2024, 9:06am EST
Buchanan Center for the Arts Dedicates Blum Studio Classroom
A standing-room only crowd packed the latest remodeled space in the Buchanan Center for the Arts on Wednesday morning to celebrate the realization of "an imaginative and lofty dream." A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held to officially open the Blum Stud...
Feb 22, 2024, 1:36am EST
Monmouth College alumni join forces to run successful farm management and insurance agency
Perhaps you've heard this one: A teacher, an accountant and a farmer walk into a bar. But what you haven't heard is the punchline variation a trio of Monmouth College graduates have created. Teacher Julie Larson Martin '00, accountant Rachel Jenks ...
Feb 21, 2024, 6:05pm EST
Monmouth College's music department to hold Third Annual Broadway on Broadway Feb. 23
Performances of show tunes by students, faculty and staff will be a part of Monmouth College's third annual "Broadway on Broadway" event on Feb. 23. The Monmouth College Chorale and Wind Ensemble will host the concert, which will begin at 7 p.m. in t...
Feb 21, 2024, 10:40am EST