05 Sep 2025

Monmouth College's 2025-26 Theatre Season Has Focus on Students, Community

By Barry McNamara

Theatre professor Todd Quick, shown here directing a dress rehearsal last fall for Love/Sick, will direct a community co-production of Our Town in November

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 5, 2025) — By serving as cast and crew, student work is always featured prominently in theatre productions at Monmouth College, but this year's season will also highlight their writing and directing talents.

04 Sep 2025

Monmouth College Engineering Program Earns Prestigious ABET Accreditation

By Barry McNamara

In 2023, Preston Rousey, Caden Stasko, and Reed Wilson were the first graduates of Monmouth's engineering program

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 4, 2025) — Monmouth College's engineering program has achieved a major milestone - official accreditation by ABET, the global standard in engineering and technology education — marking a significant moment for both the college and its STEM ambitions.

02 Sep 2025

Works by Carl Sandburg College Art Professors Nikki Ponce, Lisa Walker on Display at Monmouth College

By Barry McNamara

“Historical Fiction,” Lisa Walker

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 2, 2025) — "Historical Fiction," a collection of works by Carl Sandburg College art professors Nikki Ponce and Lisa Walker, is currently on display in the Len G Everett Gallery at Monmouth College.

27 Aug 2025

Monmouth Graduate Robin Galloway ('90) to Deliver College's Wiswell-Robeson Lecture

By Barry McNamara

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (August 27, 2025) — A member of Monmouth College's Board of Trustees with an extensive career as an executive in the food industry will deliver the college's Ninth Annual Wiswell-Robeson Lecture.

Robin Ottenad Galloway, a 1990 graduate of Monmouth, will speak at 7PM, September 8, in Dahl Chapel and Auditorium. Free and open to the public, her talk is titled "Consumer Food Trends, Food Labeling and the Supply Chain."

26 Aug 2025

Monmouth College's First Class of Nursing Students Has Started Fall Semester

By Barry McNamara

Ava Landon (left) and Lydia Overcash will be nursing students and members of the Fighting Scots softball team, which is a major benefit of Monmouth's new partnership with OSF HealthCare

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (August 26, 2025) — If this year's Fighting Scots softball team finds itself short on athletic trainers, the squad can take comfort in the fact that it boasts two members of Monmouth College's inaugural class of nursing students.

21 Aug 2025

The Stories of Debra Scarlett Reveal the Character, Talents of Award-Winning Monmouth Alumna

By Barry McNamara

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (August 21, 2025) — The Saturday morning of Monmouth's Homecoming weekend in October will mark the official induction of Debra Jackowniak Scarlett ('95) into the college's Fraternity and Sorority Hall of Fame. Her plaque will note such things as her employer, Madison Medical Affiliates, her lofty status in the medical profession, and her service to her community and, of course, her sorority, Pi Beta Phi.

20 Aug 2025

Work of Summer Opportunity for Intellectual Activity (SOFIA) Students is Done, But It's Set Them Up for Their Monmouth Studies

By Barry McNamara

One of the slides from the engineering group addressed their setbacks, but the moral of the story is that they stuck with their ambitious project and found success

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (August 20, 2025) A three-week start on their peers has given the students who participated in Monmouth College's Summer Opportunity for Intellectual Activity — better known as SOFIA — a good idea of what to expect when their first college classes officially begin this week.

19 Aug 2025

Monmouth College Helped Instill a Love of Learning for World Traveler Susan Smallwood Schilson

By Barry McNamara

Years ago, Susan Smallwood Schilson received this print from artist Royal Youngblood's daughter, Teddi. In August, she brought it with her to its new home. Accepting on behalf of the college is development officer Mollie Harrod ('07)

18 Aug 2025

On Move-in and Matriculation Day, Monmouth College Welcomes Largest Class in Five Years

By Barry McNamara

Monmouth College's new students pose on the "M" at Bobby Woll Memorial Field in April Zorn Memorial Stadium

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (August 18, 2025) — "I'm comin' up, so you better get this party started."

That was the command by P!NK, which blared over the April Zorn Memorial Stadium loudspeakers as more than 100 members of the Fighting Scots football team got in a Saturday morning practice.

12 Aug 2025

Summer Institute on Ancient Olympics Returning to Monmouth College's Campus

By Barry McNamara

Classics professor Bob Simmons works with some of the educators who attended the first iteration of the institute at Monmouth College in the summer of 2024

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (August 12, 2025) — "It went so well that we thought we'd give it another shot."

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