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From 10-year-old shelver to 20-year director, Monmouth College's Sayre set to retire
Rick Sayre's four-decade career in college libraries is much like the newspaper boy who eventually becomes the paper's publisher. In fact, newspapers were part of Sayre's early exposure to the profession, from which he'll retire June 30 after servin...
Jun 27, 2018, 3:42pm EDT
Monmouth College English Professor Mark Willhardt Named College's Interim Dean And Vice President Of Academic Affairs
Veteran Monmouth College professor Mark Willhardt has been named the College's interim dean and vice president of academic affairs. Willhardt, who has been an English professor at the College since 2000, will replace David M. Timmerman, who was name...
Jun 21, 2018, 6:35pm EDT
Trip to Japan highlights Monmouth College's new Asian studies minor
Asia is home to 60 percent of the world's population, and faculty member Michelle Damian is "thrilled" that Monmouth College now has an academic minor to study the region. "I'm absolutely thrilled to be able to do this," said Damian, an assistant pr...
Jun 11, 2018, 10:41am EDT
Monmouth College Academic Dean David Timmerman named Provost of Carthage College
David M. Timmerman, dean and vice president of academic affairs at Monmouth College, has been named provost and chief academic officer of Carthage College. Timmerman, who helped implement several academic innovations at Monmouth and significantly bo...
Jun 6, 2018, 11:38am EDT
Two Monmouth College men receive special recognition at Honors Convocation
Two Monmouth College men received special awards at the College's annual honors convocation on April 24. Senior and Freshman Man of the Year honors were awarded by the Monmouth chapter of Blue Key Honor Society, a national organization recogn...
May 24, 2018, 5:26pm EDT
Two Monmouth College women receive special recognition at Honors Convocation
Two Monmouth College women received special awards at the College's annual honors convocation on April 24. Senior and Freshman Woman of the Year honors were awarded by the Tau Pi chapter of Mortar Board, a national honor society that recognizes coll...
May 24, 2018, 5:18pm EDT
Student leader Crawford thrived during Monmouth College's semester in Mexico
Corrindia Crawford was known as a "silent leader" among her Monmouth College peers. The 2018 graduate didn't make an acceptance speech when she was named this year's Student Leader of the Year at the College, but that wasn't because she didn't have ...
May 23, 2018, 11:20am EDT
Retiring professor Marta Tucker helped usher in computer era at Monmouth College
When computer science professor Marta Tucker announced she was retiring this spring following a 35-year teaching career at Monmouth College, a replacement needed to be found. But when Tucker joined the faculty in 1983, she replaced no one - she was the...
May 23, 2018, 10:01am EDT
Connections, collaborations have helped grow Monmouth College's garden, farm
It takes a village to raise … a crop. That's what attendees at the final Monmouth Associates program of the academic year learned during a presentation Thursday about Monmouth College's Educational Garden and Market Farm by faculty adviser Craig Wat...
May 18, 2018, 3:13pm EDT
Connections, collaborations have helped grow Monmouth College's garden, farm
It takes a village to raise … a crop. That's what attendees at the final Monmouth Associates program of the academic year learned during a presentation Thursday about Monmouth College's Educational Garden and Market Farm by faculty adviser Craig Wat...
May 18, 2018, 11:04am EDT