MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (July 2, 2024) — Beginning July 15, Monmouth College will have a new director of student well-being.

Licensed clinical professional counselor Megan McGruder has been named to the position that helps support Monmouth students' mental-health needs. She's spent the past nine years in a related role at nearby Knox College.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (June 25, 2024) — There's something about the final semester that brings out the best in Dusty Scott.

As a Monmouth College senior in 2003, Scott was coming to terms with the reality that he might graduate in a few weeks without a girlfriend. But then he and his friend, junior Autumn McGee ('04), began dating during the spring semester, and the couple has been married since 2006.

Noelle Faulk works on an engineering project on the roof of Monmouth College's Center for Science and Business

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (June 24, 2024) — #Enhancedbyengineering.

That was the theme of this year's International Women in Engineering Day. The June 23 observance promoted the work that women engineers across the globe are doing.

And "across the globe" very much includes the Monmouth College community.

President Clarence Wyatt and First Lady Lobie Stone make their way up the Wallace Hall sidewalk at the opening of the College's 167th Commencement Exercises on May 19. In the background is one of the Commencement speakers, actress Sigourney Weaver

Coffee, the Bahamas, and casual comfort were regular features of Brad Sturgeon's seventeen-year career as a Monmouth College chemistry professor. He's shown here before his final faculty colloquium talk in March

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (June 18, 2024) — Established in 2004, Monmouth College's Hatch Awards recognize outstanding work by its faculty in the areas of teaching, scholarship, and service.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (June 13, 2024) — An "exemplary student and innovative leader" from Monmouth College is among the students nationwide recognized as a 2024-25 Campus Compact Newman Civic Fellow.

Kailyn Gore ('26) of Marlton, New Jersey, received the honor after being nominated by Monmouth President Clarence Wyatt.

For the first time, physics professor Michael Solontoi served as the coordinating advisor for the Midwest Journal of Undergraduate Research

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (June 11, 2024) — The Illinois educator shortage — an issue that Monmouth College is taking an active role in trying to solve — is just one of the topics addressed in the new edition of the College's Midwest Journal of Undergraduate Research, which is now available in print.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (June 10, 2024) — The Illinois Regional Office of Education 33 and Monmouth College have announced a new partnership to better serve students in Henderson, Knox, Mercer, and Warren counties.

The goal of the partnership — which includes all educational institutions in the region — is to provide students a seamless path from K-12 to college, according to Regional Office of Education N° 33 Superintendent Jodi Scott.

Elijah Perry ('26) tends to a chore at the Monmouth College Educational Farm

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (June 7, 2024) School may be out for the summer, but that doesn't mean questions like the following ever go away. Complete the following sentence: The Monmouth College Educational Farm and Garden is a) a laboratory, b) a classroom; c) a canvas; or d) all of the above.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (June 5, 2024) Long summer days make it a perfect season for reading, and members of the Monmouth College community have several recommendations to help people fill out their hours.

Among the books recommended are titles connected to the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, to authors connected to the College and to what Monmouth's dean and head librarian are reading.

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