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.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (January 15, 2024) — A member of the Monmouth College Board of Trustees has stepped up to fill a surprising void in the genre of American political biographies.

Brad Nahrstadt, a 1989 graduate of the College and a retired attorney, has written Alton B Parker: The Man Who Challenged Roosevelt. Published by the State University of New York Press, the 357-page book is available in hardback, with a paperback version due out later this year.

Monmouth College communication studies faculty member Chris Goble, right, meets with legendary television creator Norman Lear at the 2015 meeting of the National Association of Television Program Executives in Miami

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (December 6, 2023) — Few people did more to revolutionize television than the late Norman Lear, the writer-producer who died Tuesday at the age of 101.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (November 20, 2023) — A Monmouth College student from East Moline, Illinois, recently presented her psychology research at a regional conference. Hannah Rossmiller ('24) of East Moline presented "The Effects of True Crime on State and Trait Anxiety" at the 32nd annual Tri-State Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference, held November 11 at Rockford University.