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Monmouth College's 'Light This Candle' capital campaign soars past $60 million mark
Monmouth College's Light This Candle Campaign has reached an impressive milestone, climbing past the $60 million mark with almost two years remaining. The campaign, which formally kicked off in March 2019, aims to raise a minimum of $75 million by D...
Feb 1, 2021, 1:54pm EST
Monmouth College starts Champion Miller 1860 Fund to enhance campus diversity
Two decades ago as a Monmouth College student, Regina Johnson '01 wrote a history paper that shed light on the life and times of Champion Miller, a Black man who was a distinguished member of the Monmouth community in the 19th century. Now Monmouth'...
Jan 29, 2021, 9:42am EST
Impact of Negro baseball leagues subject of Feb. 2 online talk by Monmouth College alumnus
Fresh on the heels of "major" news in the world of Negro Leagues baseball, Monmouth College will welcome a 1991 alumnus to present its next Tartan Talk on Feb. 2. Via Zoom, Ray Doswell, vice president of curatorial services for the Negro Leagues Ba...
Jan 28, 2021, 4:21pm EST
Monmouth's Bond part of research team that's received $600,000 National Science Foundation grant
A Monmouth College professor is part of a national study that seeks to better understand student attitudes toward learning about statistics and data science. Marjorie Bond is a member of a seven-researcher team that has received a $600,000 grant fro...
Jan 27, 2021, 11:51am EST
Monmouth College's student senate starts Scots Care fund for students hit hard by pandemic
Monmouth College's student government has continued a campus tradition of "looking out for each other," raising more than $23,000 for an emergency fund to help students who have been hit especially hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. "During the pandemic...
Jan 26, 2021, 10:23am EST
Monmouth College prepares to start spring semester with weekend of COVID-19 testing
On the eve of the first day of the spring semester at Monmouth College, the school received its best COVID-19 news of the past 10 months - none of the nearly 400 students, faculty and staff who were tested for the virus on Friday, Jan. 22, in the Huff ...
Jan 25, 2021, 11:00am EST
Monmouth College to Discontinue Men's and Women's Water Polo Programs
Monmouth College will discontinue its men's and women's varsity water polo programs at the end of the 2020-21 school year. The men's varsity program began competition in 2012, and the women's program started in 2013. Both programs have attracted stu...
Jan 19, 2021, 10:52am EST
COVID-19 pandemic gives Monmouth College psychology majors research opportunities
The COVID-19 pandemic affected college students in numerous ways during the recently completed fall semester. For three Monmouth College psychology seniors, it presented research opportunities. Alison Bowman and Abigail Haslem, both of Galesburg, Il...
Dec 23, 2020, 11:40am EST
Dan Nolan retires as Monmouth College sports information director after 21 years
Anyone familiar with Monmouth College Sports Information Director Dan Nolan knows that the veteran local sports personality dishes out humor directed at others but also points a fair share of it at himself. "When I started here, I had dark hair and...
Dec 22, 2020, 4:45pm EST
Monmouth's Trotter Fitness Complex Rose to Fall's COVID Challenges
Overall usage was down slightly at Monmouth College's Trotter Fitness Complex during the fall semester, but that didn't keep the director of the complex, Brian Woodard, from giving the campus community high marks. "If this were an exam, I'd have to ...
Dec 17, 2020, 4:00am EST