CANTON, MISSOURI (January 21, 2020) — Culver-Stockton College recently recognized 150 students on its president's list for academic achievement during the fall 2019 semester. Megan Erickson of Port Byron, Illinois, was named to the list. Erickson is majoring in Legal Studies.

Students on the president's list have earned a 4.0 grade-point average and were enrolled in a minimum of 12 hours with no grade lower than a C.

DeKALB, ILLINOIS (January 21, 2020) — Northern Illinois University announces its fall 2019 Dean's List students. To earn this distinction, students must meet a minimum semester grade-point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale in the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology or a minimum of 3.75 on a 4.0 scale in the colleges of Business, Education, Health, and Human Sciences, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Visual and Performing Arts.

MOUNT PLEASANT, IOWA (January 21, 2020) — More than 200 students were named to the Fall 2019 Dean's List at Iowa Wesleyan University. Students exemplifying academic excellence represent the United States and countries abroad. Criteria to be a part of IW's Dean's List include degree-seeking students taking 12 or more hours per semester with a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher.

Mya Ribbink of Muscatine

Nicholas Earl of Davenport

MONMOUTH, ILL. (January 20, 2020) — The keynote speaker at Monmouth College's convocation celebrating the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr requested a few words from the Dahl Chapel and Auditorium audience for what he called his "lay-up line" — an opening exercise that warmed him up for the event as he constructed an impromptu poem using those words.