19 Apr 2024

Monmouth College Scots Day of Giving Raises More Than $269,000 from More Than 940 Donors

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (April 19, 2024) — Around 3PM on Thursday, April 18, in the headquarters of Monmouth College's eighth annual Scots Day of Giving, the song "Magic Man" by Heart was playing, one of several tunes selected as part of a special "Monmouth Magic" playlist.

The donor page projected on the screen showed that Monmouth was nearing 75% of its main goal. By the time the day was done at 11:53PM, those numbers had grown, and several goals were reached.

27 Mar 2024

Patricia Draves Named Fifteenth President of Monmouth College

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (March 27, 2024) — Patricia Draves has been named the fifteenth president of Monmouth College.

A veteran higher education leader and former chemistry professor at Monmouth, Draves was unanimously chosen president by the Monmouth College Board of Trustees after an extensive national search. Since 2017, Draves has served as president of Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa.

11 Mar 2024

Nearly 300 Boy Scouts from Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin Find "Merit" at Monmouth College Event

By Duane Bonifer

Participants in the Boy Scouts of America's Merit Badge University focus on a picture Saturday morning in the Center for Science and Business at Monmouth College. A total of 288 scouts from Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin took part in the daylong event

06 Mar 2024

High School Seniors from Muskego, Wisconsin, and Galesburg, Illinois, Named Monmouth College Class of 2028 Admiral's Scholars

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (March 6, 2024) — A student who hopes to have a career with the FBI and one with plans to attend medical school have been named the two Admiral's Scholars in Monmouth College's Class of 2028.

20 Feb 2024

Humor a Winning Theme in this Year's Super Bowl TV Ads, Monmouth College Marketing Students Say

By Duane Bonifer

Monmouth College business professor Amanda Cleland makes about the television ads broadcast during Super Bowl LVIII during a Wednesday morning meeting of her "Marketing" class. At left is Monmouth business faculty member Tom Prince

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (February 20, 2024) — If laughter is the best medicine for the soul, it can also be one of the more effective paths to a successful Super Bowl television advertisement.

13 Feb 2024

Jim Simpson and Sigourney Weaver Named Monmouth College 2024 Commencement Speakers

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (February 13, 2024) — Two of America's most respected and widely-honored theater and film artists — writer/director Jim Simpson and actor Sigourney Weaver — will jointly deliver the address at Monmouth College's 167th Commencement Exercises, to be held on Sunday, May 19.

Simpson and Weaver, who have been married for nearly forty years, will speak on the theme of "creative partnership."

12 Feb 2024

More Than 200 Years After His Birth, Lincoln Continues to Stand as a Model of Self-Education

By Duane Bonifer

"[Abraham] Lincoln did not have a lot of formal education, which is why we think of Lincoln as a self-educated man in the true sense of those words. He was self-educated in his childhood, as well as his professionalization," says Monmouth College history professor Valerie Deisinger

06 Feb 2024

Monmouth College Moves Enrollment Deposit to June 1 to Help Families Frustrated by Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) Delays

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (February 6, 2024) — In response to numerous delays with the US Department of Education's Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), Monmouth College has extended the deadline for its enrollment deposit to June 1.

The decision, which extends the College's deadline by one month, was not hard, said Monmouth President Clarence Wyatt.

30 Jan 2024

Monmouth College Receives Gift of Farmland Worth Nearly $12 Million

By Duane Bonifer

The late Marilyn Johnston, a 1948 Monmouth College alumna, donated 780-acre farm in Mercer County, Illinois, worth nearly $12 million to support the College's endowment

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (January 30, 2024) — Monmouth College has received a gift valued at nearly $12 million, the second-largest donation in the College's 171-year history.

16 Jan 2024

Monmouth College Dean's List Fall 2023

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (January 16, 2024) — The following students made the Dean's List at Monmouth College for the Fall 2023 semester. To qualify for the Dean's List, students had to take at least 3.0 credit hours while achieving a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale.

Danielle Beach of Geneseo (61254)

Zane Beebe of Davenport (52806)

Neo Colter of Geneseo (61254)

Xanthia Colter of Geneseo (61254)

Madison Coopman of Rock Island (61201)

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