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Monmouth College launches 'Light This Candle' campaign to increase endowment by at least $75 million
The candle is lit. Monmouth College has launched a campaign to significantly bolster the national liberal arts college's endowment. "Light This Candle: The Campaign for Monmouth College" aims to raise a minimum of $75 million by Dec. 31, 2022. More ...
Mar 18, 2019, 9:43am EDT
Monmouth College students won't soon forget Memphis, 14 tons of trash and their bus in a ditch
Ask any of the 29 Monmouth College students who traveled to Memphis on an Alternative Spring Break service trip what their most memorable moment was, and they will surely reply, "When our bus slid into a ditch on I-55." That accident, in which no Mo...
Mar 15, 2019, 11:12am EDT
Upcoming events at Monmouth College
Monmouth's Greek Week a time to foster connections, enhance sense of community An air of mystery surrounds this year's Greek Week at Monmouth College, which will be held March 17-23. The week celebrating fraternity and sorority life on campu...
Mar 14, 2019, 5:15pm EDT
Upcoming events at Monmouth College
Pair of lectures to celebrate legacy of legendary Monmouth professor Thompson This year's Monmouth College Samuel M. Thompson Lecture will bring back to campus two former students of the legendary philosophy professor. Ann Garry '65 will de...
Mar 8, 2019, 9:21am EST
Monmouth College to host its eighth Merit Badge University for Boy Scouts on March 9
More than 400 Boy Scouts from Illinois and Iowa will gather March 9 at Monmouth College to hone their skills during a day-long Merit Badge University. This is the eighth year that Monmouth College has hosted the Boy Scouts of America's annual confer...
Mar 6, 2019, 8:37am EST
'Wild Things' art exhibit at Monmouth explores conflict between human and animal
Where the wild things are will be Monmouth College when a new art exhibit opens this month. "Wild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination," the works of University of Nebraska art professor Sandra Williams, will be on display March 11-April 5 in t...
Mar 4, 2019, 9:25am EST
Monmouth College Students on Chartered Bus Involved in Sunday Morning Accident
A chartered bus carrying a group of 29 Monmouth College James and Sybil Stockdale Fellows and Assistant Director of Leadership Development Jake McLean was involved in an accident Sunday morning, according to Monmmouth Vice President Student Life & Dean...
Mar 3, 2019, 6:12pm EST
Monmouth College Chorale to perform in major Texas cities March 2-9
The Monmouth College Chorale will shake the bonds of a harsh Midwest winter when it travels to Texas March 2-9 on its annual performance tour. Some of the selections - which will include works by a range of classic and contemporary composers - will ...
Feb 25, 2019, 10:42am EST
Upcoming events at Monmouth College
Poet John McCarthy to read as part of Writers@Monmouth series on Feb. 25 When you ask John McCarthy why he writes poems, he's quick to point to the landscape that has shaped him. In McCarthy's words, he writes "to showcase and illuminate the...
Feb 21, 2019, 4:50pm EST
Women's soccer players Lingle, Stumbo making stage debuts in 'The Wolves'
Two of the cast members in Monmouth College's production of The Wolves will make their stage debut this week, but neither is new to performing in front of a live audience. Hannah Lingle '19 of Muscatine, Iowa, and Brie Stumbo '22 of Shelley, Idaho, ...
Feb 20, 2019, 12:15pm EST