01 Sep 2022

Monmouth College's Growing Fighting Scots Marching Band Ready to Start Season

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 1, 2022) — Good musicians will be playing songs about bad men when the Monmouth College Fighting Scots Marching Band makes its football game début under new director John Eckstine this Saturday night at April Zorn Memorial Stadium.

01 Sep 2022

National Ag Broadcaster Mike Adams to Present Monmouth College's Wiswell-Robeson Lecture

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 1, 2022) — Based in Jacksonville, Illinois, nationally-syndicated farm broadcaster Mike Adams has been to Monmouth many times.

His next trip to the Maple City will be to present Monmouth College's annual Wiswell-Robeson Lecture at 7PM, September 12, in Dahl Chapel and Auditorium.

31 Aug 2022

Monmouth College's Great Lecture Series Returns September 3 with Exploration of the Moon

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (August 31, 2022) Although outstanding talks by Monmouth College faculty never went away during the pandemic, the school's Great Lecture Series did, but it will return this fall, starting September 3.

26 Aug 2022

Monmouth College's New Personnel for 2022-23 Includes Four Professors, Five Alumni

By Duane Bonifer

New Monmouth College hires Michelle Iselin, Amanda Cleland, Joshua Gentzke and Justin Swearinger are pictured on a recent tour of campus. Iselin is the math and quantitative success manager. Cleland and Gentzke are teaching business and economics and religious studies, respectively. Swearinger is the new director of instrumental activities

26 Aug 2022

Monmouth's SOFIA Students Finish Three-Week Research Program, Though Some “Are Not Done Yet”

By Duane Bonifer

Monmouth College student Michael Andal ('26) explains how his group built an eight-bit computer from scratch during this year's SOFIA program

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (August 26, 2022) — As the spring semester wound down last April, Monmouth College formally dedicated its Champion Miller Center for Student Equity, Inclusion and Community.

25 Aug 2022

Fighting Scots Tennis to Début New Courts, New Coach When They Host Central August 27

By Duane Bonifer

2022 Women's Tennis Team. Front Row (left to right): Emily Laughlin, Jennifer Shimmin, Coach Brian Dahlstrom, Isa Perez, Julia Mheidze. Back Row (L to R): Natalie Labicki, Emily Henson, Maddie Psomas, Izzie Hammind. (Not pictured: Ditza Montesinos)

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (August 25, 2022) — New courts, new coach, same players (with an asterisk).

25 Aug 2022

Monmouth College's First Art Exhibit of Academic Year Showcases “Inherent Beauty of Mechanical Things”

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (August 25, 2022) — Matt Moyer had what he called a "blue-collar upbringing" in Moline, Illinois.

Combining that background with an interest in art and "mechanical things" has led Moyer to produce creative work with "a decidedly industrial sensibility."

22 Aug 2022

Monmouth College Community Welcomes, Challenges Its Class of 2026

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (August 22, 2022) — Members of the Monmouth College Class of 2026 on Saturday, August 20, were welcomed, helped, introduced, celebrated, challenged, encouraged, assured, and matriculated.

19 Aug 2022

Gayle Walker of Newark, Illinois, First to Benefit from Monmouth College's Yahnke Endowed Internship Fund That Helps Support Student Career Goals

By Duane Bonifer

Gayle Walker, pictured at Impact Field, home to the Chicago Dogs baseball team

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (August 19, 2022) — Monmouth College student Gayle Walker ('23) of Newark, Illinois, got to spend her summer days and nights at the ballpark while building her résumé, thanks to a new internship program funded by a Monmouth alumnus and his wife.

03 Aug 2022

Through Outreach and Partnerships, Monmouth College's Educational Studies Department is Moving Learning and Literacy Forward

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (August 3, 2022) — While Monmouth College's educational-studies department makes great use of the school's educational farm, it has no use for a silo. Over the past several months, the department has increased its partnerships with local schools and community organizations, working together with them to help educate the next generation of students.

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