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Thomas Commons
Renovation
The Thomas Commons renovation project will bring sweeping changes to the College's student center, adding a majestic entrance and lobby, glass-enclosed dining and more. Click here to read more about this exciting project.
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November 1, 2011Now Cornellians in Iowa can show their pride wherever they drive. For the first time, Cornell College collegiate license plates are available for purchase through the Iowa Department of Transportation. Fees for the purple and white plates are $25 for numbered plates and $50 for personalized plates with a $5 annual validation fee. Information, applications, [...]
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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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September 7, 2011A gift of $5.6 million from the estate of a Cornell College parent—one of the largest outright gifts in the history of the college—will go toward renovations of the Thomas Commons and endow a scholarship in his daughter’s name. The gift came from the estate of James Russell, father of Dr. Jean Russell ’65. James [...]
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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 26, 2011Sodexo has announced the hours of operation for Scramble and the Rathskellar for the next two weeks. Scramble Aug. 26 through Sept. 2: NSO Meal Times Breakfast 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Breakfast will be served on Sunday 8/28 Lunch 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dinner 5:15 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. * Please note –To accommodate [...]
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August 23, 2011One of the most visible—and audible—updates to the Hilltop this fall will be felt throughout town as the 1882 King Chapel clock is ticking again and the carillon is ringing. The Seth Thomas clock once again keeps time over campus and rings on the hour after being shut off for a year, and the carillons [...]
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August 22, 2011Cornell College has purchased a building that will reopen next fall as the college’s McLennan Center in Chicago. The center is made possible by a $1 million gift from alumni Bob McLennan ’65 and Becky Martin McLennan ’64 during the college’s recently-completed Extraordinary Opportunities Campaign. With Cornell’s distinctive One Course At A Time schedule, faculty [...]
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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 27, 2011Cornell College is one of 49 “Best Buy” schools, according to the 2012 Fiske Guide to Colleges. The Fiske guide named 24 public and 25 private schools as Best Buys. All of the Best Buy schools fall into the inexpensive or moderate price category, and most have four- or five-star academics ratings. This is the [...]
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July 27, 2011An alum from the 1960s has pledged $100,000 to Cornell College to fund a program designed to teach students what it takes to lead. Tom Jarom ’66, a member of the Berry Center for Economics, Business, and Public Policy advisory board and a life trustee of the college, was instrumental in establishing the Cornell LEADS [...]
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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 19, 2011Cornell College is one of the 13 most interesting colleges in the U.S., according to a Huffington Post review of the Fiske Guide to Colleges for 2012. Cornell is one of only two Midwestern schools on the list, along with Kalamazoo College. Among other reasons, Cornell was featured because of its close relationship between faculty [...]
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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 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 10, 2011Associate Professor of English Michelle Mouton was the faculty speaker at the 2011 Commencement ceremony. She spoke to the more than 250 graduates and their families about the way their liberal arts education has left them better prepared than most for the challenges they will face. Full text of Mouton’s speech Thank you, [...]
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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 26, 2011Barbara Christie-Pope, professor of biology at Cornell College has been selected as one of six Fellows of the FUTURE in Biomedicine program at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Christie-Pope, together with Cornell undergraduate Federica Otalora-Roselli, will spend two months this summer engaged in an intensive research experience in the laboratory of Robert [...]
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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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