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.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (August 30, 2024) — With an office by two hallways and an elevator in the middle section of the middle floor, Jen Braun is in the center of it all in Monmouth College's bustling Center for Science and Business.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (August 29, 2024) — Topics ranging from "the arts to the sciences" — or, specifically, from music to rocks from outer space and sourdough bread — are on tap for this year's Great Lecture Series at Monmouth College.

"Escapism is good, but we can go too far," warned one SOFIA group, which included returning student Lizzie Durfee ('26), shown here helping a visitor to the August 17 poster presentations

New faculty at Monmouth College include (from left) Alex Blum, Nicole Federov, Hannah Bradsahw, and Jaime Thissen

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (August 23, 2024) You may have heard that Monmouth College has a new president, as Patricia Draves has returned to the school where she taught chemistry from 2002-06 to lead the institution. Her inauguration ceremony will be held at 2PM, October 4, on Wallace Hall Plaza as part of Homecoming weekend festivities.

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