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Purple Pass gives free admission to Cornell events
The Purple Pass allows free admission to home athletic contests, Music Mondays concerts and campus lectures for residents of Mount Vernon and Lisbon and families with children in either school district.
The Purple Pass is available at the Small Multi-Sport
Center, Cole Library, or Scott Alumni Center. Patrons can obtain a Purple Pass for their family by showing
proof of residence (a driver’s license or other document with a home
address) or school enrollment (school ID, etc.).
For more information, see our Purple Pass website.
Campus News
October 27, 2011Cornell College is ranked 32nd among national liberal arts colleges in a list released today that uses a methodology derived from a physicist’s system of ranking international chess players. The inaugural Parchment Top-Choice College Rankings by Parchment.com, an education data company, are the first broad-based college rankings based not on criteria allegedly defining which colleges [...]
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October 26, 2011Cornell College is celebrating the legacy of Barron Bremner with a special luncheon and program on Saturday, Oct. 29, at 11 a.m. at the Richard and Norma Small Multi-Sport Center. Bremner may be the only man to successfully bridge the great divide between athletic rivals Coe and Cornell—not once, but twice. During a 42-year career [...]
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September 9, 2011The 2011-2012 Cornell College Chautauqua Program is now open for registration. The program is open to anyone seeking enrichment through lectures, films, music, and other means of enlightenment. A new subject is introduced every term with the sessions meeting on Mondays from 9 a.m. to noon in Hedges Conference Room in The Commons. The cost [...]
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September 2, 2011Cornell College will host a vigil for national and global healing on campus at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The vigil will be held at the Peace Pole, just outside Allee Chapel, on Cornell’s campus. The event will challenge participants to renew their commitment to [...]
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August 22, 2011Cornell College’s annual “One Book, One Campus, One Community” program is expanding to include a panel on food policy, a screening of the movie “King Corn” and a visit from an alum involved in urban farming. The events, sponsored by the Russell D. Cole Library, the Berry Center for Economics, Business and Public Policy and [...]
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July 22, 2011In a meeting with the (Cedar Rapids) Gazette editorial board, Cornell College President Jonathan Brand spoke about the school’s plan to increase enrollment, as well as about the importance of a liberal arts education. From the article: The type of people who are drawn to the college’s one-course-at-a-time academic schedule and the type of relationships [...]
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July 11, 2011Cornell College will host Music Mondays with three performances starting Oct. 17. Each concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in King Chapel, the centerpiece of the historic Cornell College campus. General admission for each concert is $10 ($5 for students) at the door. No advance ticket sales, no reserved seating. Admission is free to Cornell students, [...]
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July 5, 2011The Corporation for National and Community Service honored Cornell College as a leader among institutions of higher education for their support of volunteering, service-learning, and civic engagement. Cornell was admitted to the 2010 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for engaging its students, faculty and staff in meaningful service that achieves measurable results in the [...]
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July 1, 2011The summer 2011 Cornell Report is now off the press and online. The cover story, “How big is big enough?” is a look at how, and why, the college is planning to increase enrollment. A second feature, “Around the world in 18 days,” features National Geographic-worthy student photography taken during off-campus study.The issue also includes [...]
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June 27, 2011Red Cedar Chamber Music’s Summer Festival 2011, held at Cornell College, the Official Summer Home of Red Cedar Chamber Music, includes free performances in Mount Vernon, Marion and Springville. Summer Festival 2011 opens with a free family concert at 7 p.m. on Wednesday July 6, 2011 at Cole Library on Cornell’s campus. The Cole Library concert will [...]
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June 20, 2011Brian McMillin ’06 was featured in the Sunday, June 19 Gazette after he finished his project to photograph all 974 small towns in Iowa. From the article A computer science and math major in college, McMillin is organized by nature. He put the whole project on a spreadsheet, keeping track of everything from distances between [...]
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June 7, 2011Cornell is hosting summer camps for athletes and students interested in social justice this year. Camps start in June and run throughout the summer. Below is a schedule. June 5-7 Athletic Camp: Basketball Boys and Girls Offensive Improvement Camp June 11, 12 Athletic Camp: Basketball Boys Team Camp June 18, 19 Athletic Camp: Basketball Big Man [...]
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June 2, 2011The Calhoun School, a private school in New York City’s Upper West Side, was featured June 1 in the New York Times as it completed its first year on a block calendar. Steven J. Nelson, Calhoun’s head of school, told the Times the new schedule fostered teaching in the ways children learn best. “Most of [...]
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June 2, 2011Chicago alum Harper Reed ’01 is serving as chief technology officer of the Obama 2012 campaign. According to a June 2, 2011, Chicago Tribune article, Reed will focus on helping field operators improve voter contact. “I am here to make sure technology is a successful force multiplier within the campaign,” Reed said in a statement [...]
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May 19, 2011Midwest Conference Presidents’ Council Chair Thomas Kunkel has announced that charter member Cornell College will return to the storied league in the 2012-2013 academic year. The Rams have been participating in the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference for the past 14 years. “We are excited to celebrate the tradition and history that returns with Cornell’s acceptance [...]
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May 17, 2011Summer office hours for the college begin Tuesday, May 31. Official office hours will be 8 a.m.-noon, and 12:30-4 p.m. Summer office hours will continue through Friday, Aug. 12, with regular office hours resuming on Monday, Aug. 15, to coincide with the arrival of the students involved in sports. Some offices and services will have [...]
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May 10, 2011The Cornell College President’s House will now be known as the Garner President’s House, in honor of President Emeritus Les and First Lady Katrina Garner, who served Cornell from 1994 to 2010. The new name is part of a plan to renovate and update the 161-year-old building that has served as home to the college’s [...]
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