MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 15, 2025) — In her concluding remarks after Monday evening's Ninth Annual Wiswell-Robeson Lecture, Monmouth College President Patricia Draves neatly summarized the presentation by alumna Robin Ottenad Galloway ('90), a member of Monmouth's Board of Trustees and chair of its finance committee.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 11, 2025) — The fall semester at Monmouth College is now in full swing and the events calendar is heating up. The next few days will feature the first concert of the academic year, an update on the college by President Patricia Draves, and a wellness fair that will involve the entire campus.

The Fighting Scots Marching Band makes it way down Broadway during the Warren County Prime Beef Festival Parade earlier this month. The band's numbers are up this year, which is also the case for the college's Chorale and Wind Ensemble

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.

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.

“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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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