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April Zorn Memorial Stadium (Kent Kriegshauser)

Admission Remains Free to Monmouth College Home Athletic Events

The cost of nearly everything might be increasing because of rising inflation rates, but one place remains unaffected - Monmouth College's regular-season home athletic events. Once again this school year, all home regular-season Fighting Scots athleti...

Aug 26, 2022, 11:50am EDT

New Monmouth College hires Michelle Iselin, Amanda Cleland, Joshua Gentzke and Justin Swearinger are pictured on a recent tour of campus. Iselin is the math and quantitative success manager. Cleland and Gentzke are teaching business and economics, and religious studies, respectively. Swearinger is the new director of instrumental activities.

Monmouth College's new personnel for 2022-23 includes four professors, five alumni

As Monmouth College begins its 170th academic year, there are several new faces filling faculty and staff positions on campus. Some of the faces are familiar, though, as Monmouth alumni have taken on those responsibilities. New to the faculty this ye...

Aug 26, 2022, 10:26am EDT

Monmouth College student Michael Andal '26 explains how his group built an 8-bit computer from scratch during this year's SOFIA program.

Monmouth's SOFIA students finish three-week research program, though some 'are not done yet'

As the spring semester wound down last April, Monmouth College formally dedicated its Champion Miller Center for Student Equity, Inclusion and Community. In the three weeks leading up to the fall semester, students dug deeper into the life of 19th-cen...

Aug 26, 2022, 10:21am EDT

2022 Women's Tennis Team. Front Row (L to R) Emily Laughlin, Jennifer Shimmin, Coach Brian Dahlstrom, Isa Perez, Julia Mheidze. Back Row (L to R) Natalie Labicki, Emily Henson, Maddie Psomas, Izzie Hammind. (not pictured: Ditza Montesinos)

Fighting Scots tennis to debut new courts, new coach when they host Central on Saturday

New courts, new coach, same players (with an asterisk). The Monmouth College women's tennis team is hoping that formula will help it have a successful, competitive season this fall. The Fighting Scots will open their season at noon Saturday, Aug. 27,...

Aug 25, 2022, 10:58am EDT

Monmouth College's first art exhibit of academic year showcases 'inherent beauty of mechanical things'

Matt Moyer had what he called a "blue-collar upbringing" in Moline, Illinois. Combining that background with an interest in art and "mechanical things" has led Moyer to produce creative work with "a decidedly industrial sensibility." Some of those wo...

Aug 25, 2022, 9:42am EDT

Members of the Monmouth College Class of 2026 gather Saturday, Aug. 20, on the steps of the Huff Athletic Center before their Matriculation Convocation in the field house. The College’s freshman class includes students from 176 high schools, 25 states and 23 countries.

Monmouth College Community Welcomes, Challenges Its Class of 2026

Members of the Monmouth College Class of 2026 on Saturday, Aug. 20, were welcomed, helped, introduced, celebrated, challenged, encouraged, assured and matriculated. The more than 260 new members of the Monmouth community -- who came to the College fro...

Aug 22, 2022, 2:19am EDT

Monmouth College student Gayle Walker hands out promotional miniature bats at a Chicago Dogs home game this summer. Photo by Meredith Cavaleri.

Walker is first to benefit from Monmouth College's Yahnke Endowed Internship Fund that helps support student career goals

Monmouth College student Gayle Walker '23 of Newark, Illinois, got to spend her summer days and nights at the ballpark while building her resume, thanks to a new internship program funded by a Monmouth alumnus and his wife. In the spring, Walker, a bu...

Aug 19, 2022, 12:32pm EDT

Monmouth professor Brad Rowe helps a child learn how to use a typewriter at an after school event last fall that was also staffed by some of the College's educational studies students. The event was just one of many of community outreaches and partnerships that the educational studies department had over the past year.

Through outreach and partnerships, Monmouth College's educational studies department is moving learning and literacy forward

While Monmouth College's educational studies department makes great use of the school's educational farm, it has no use for a silo. Over the past several months, the department has increased its partnerships with local schools and community organizatio...

Aug 3, 2022, 2:07pm EDT

Quad City Tennis Pro Brian Dahlstrom Named Monmouth Tennis Coach

With more than three decades of tennis coaching and teaching experience, Brian Dahlstrom has been named the Head Tennis Coach for the Monmouth men's and women's programs. Dahlstrom comes to Monmouth from the Quad City Tennis Club in Moline where he w...

Aug 3, 2022, 10:36am EDT

Monmouth College senior and Stockdale Fellow Grace Simpson, left, and 2019 graduate Elizabeth Smith have helped get the rebranded Highlander Hub location ready for the students who will arrive on campus later this month.

With Monmouth College school year set to begin, rebranded 'Highlander Hub' space will serve students

A project that started with Monmouth College's chaplain office prior to the pandemic is now in the capable hands of the school's Stockdale Fellows leadership program. Located on the lower level of the Stockdale Center - the College's student center - ...

Aug 2, 2022, 9:08am EDT

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