MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 25, 2024) — The curtain will open on Monmouth College's 2024-25 theatre season September 27-29 when theatre professor Todd Quick directs an adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in Wells Theater.

Pictured from left at the rededication ceremony are Cullen Marshall, Holly Tharp, President Draves, Carina Engst, Isabel Gimm, and Dean Karen Ogorzalek

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 24, 2024) Nearly two full years after smoke damage from a fire caused its closing, Monmouth College's Stockdale Center is not only back, but it's better than ever.

Stacy Cordery speaks to a large audience at the Buchanan Center for the Arts in downtown Monmouth

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 19, 2024) — If pressed to condense the life of her most recent biographical subject into three words, historian and former Monmouth College professor Stacy Cordery said the phrase "Beauty is power" would be an apt description for Elizabeth Arden.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 18, 2024) — An award-winning history professor from Rutgers University will help Monmouth College kick off a series of events funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Earlier this year, Monmouth College received a $149,965 grant from the NEH to fund a three-year history project about west central Illinois, titled "Resituating the Humanities in Place-Based Learning."

The family of Cassandra Nolasco '26 (center) enjoyed the weekend's festivities last year

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 17, 2024) — A rededication of the Stockdale Center will be one of the highlights of Monmouth College's Family Weekend September 20-22, which annually brings to campus the parents, siblings, grandparents and other relatives of current students.

Former Monmouth professor Stacy Cordery's latest book is her third major biography, joining works on Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Juliette Gordon Low

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 12, 2024) — The week of September 16 will be a busy one on the Monmouth College campus and in the community, including the return of a popular luncheon and a popular professor, as well as an annual event celebrating the Constitution.

Anna Caster (left) was able to utilize her exercise science and psychology majors while interning at Warren Achievement Center in Monmouth

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 9, 2024) — For three seasons, Anna Caster ('25) of Greenfield, Indiana, and Lea Selquist ('25) of Peru, Illinois, shared playing time as goalkeepers on the Monmouth College women's soccer team.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 5, 2024) — During the first week of September, a large headline at the top of a popular website proclaimed "It. Is. Close." when analyzing the 2024 presidential election.

That's an election sentiment that a guest speaker at Monmouth College won't be using when he discusses his new book that focuses on one of the major figures of the 1904 presidential election.

Lea Selquist is congratulated on her honor by Monmouth College President Patricia Draves

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 4, 2024) Although she's a self-described "numbers girl," Accounting and Spanish double major Lea Selquist ('25) of Peru, Illinois, has enjoyed opportunities to exercise the other half of her brain in college.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 3, 2024) — A Monmouth College alumnus has authored a book on another graduate of his alma mater - a man who left an indelible stamp on US-Japan relations, and a man whose story contains valuable lessons for today's world.

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