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Marking a Milestone

By Sean Decatur

That's So Kenyon From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Any time alumni return to visit their alma mater is cause for celebration. But I am especially thrilled this weekend to welcome alumni of the Kenyon Educational Enrichment Program (KEEP) back to campus to join current KEEP Scholars, as well as faculty and staff, in marking an important milestone: the 10th anniversary of the program. This signature initiative of Kenyon’s has bolstered more than 200 students as they become part of our community and emboldened them to fully realize their leadership…

Modeling Choice

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

It’s finally time to get those wisdom teeth pulled — or have that knee surgery you’ve been putting off, or find a hospital where you want to start your family. You turn to your friends and relatives for advice on where you should seek your medical care. But how much weight do you actually place on their opinions? That’s a question Justin Clark ’19 explored this summer through a research project with Associate Professor of Economics Jaret Treber. Clark, a mathematics major from Rochester, New York…

The Fight Over Free Speech

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

How does one person’s free speech impinge on another person’s freedoms? When does hate speech become violent? Are college students obligated to listen to speakers whose views they find appalling? These questions and more were dissected during the Center for the Study of American Democracy’s fifth biennial conference at Kenyon on Sept. 27-28. Titled “Free Speech, Civil Discourse,” the event featured politicians, journalists and academics from across the ideological spectrum. Kenyon students and community…

Funding the Future

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

With generous leadership from former Board of Trustees chair Barry F. Schwartz ’70 H’15, the College has established The President’s Fund, an endowed scholarship fund that will put a Kenyon education within the financial reach of a more diverse pool of talented students for generations to come. Awards from The President’s Fund will be directed to underrepresented students whose family income is in the bottom 60 percent of family incomes across the U.S. The College has set an initial fundraising…

Valuing Every Voice

By Sean Decatur

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

The details of how President Trump’s decision to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program will impact campuses like ours are still unknown. One thing remains clear: All who travel along Middle Path belong here at Kenyon and are valued members of our community. The recent administrative action does not change that. This is not an issue that impacts a few classmates and colleagues, but rather affects the community and institution as a whole and that reverberates with family…

Breaking Through

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

While standing before a classroom of students from under-resourced communities in Atlanta this summer, Jasmine Wilson ’19 was reminded of her own middle school experience in Cleveland. “My family didn’t talk about college, and I didn’t know anything about it,” she said. “I was from a working class family. I never thought I’d go away to college; it felt so distant and far away.” Now a junior at Kenyon, where she’s majoring in American studies and minoring in history, Wilson is helping a cohort of…

Diao on Display

by Dan Nolan '20

Arts & Culture From The Collegian - 7 years ago

A chalk-smudged blackboard, a simple recreation of a Best Western sign, a faceless headmaster bending the cane he uses to discipline his students. These images, among the many others at “David Diao: America Beckoning,” create the effect of looking through a dusty old box of mementos or souvenirs. The paintings confront the viewer with shreds of memories that, when taken together, form a singular narrative about the artist’s experiences. On view at the Gund Gallery until Oct. 8, the exhibition is…

Fields of Focus

Athletics From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Seven Lords and Ladies teams are setting goals, solidifying formations and crafting game plans in preparation for the fall sports season. Expectations are especially lofty for Lords soccer and Ladies field hockey, as both teams made national tournament runs in 2016.      Cross Country The Lords cross country team is coming off a 2016 campaign in which it endured some growing pains. This year’s squad is still relatively young and lacks the depth of the women’s team, but is hoping that previous lessons…

Career Conversation

Student Life From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Holly McCormack joins Kenyon as dean of the Career Development Office (CDO), where she is focused on preparing students for postgraduate success and cultivating Kenyon’s deep network of alumni, parents and employers to enhance career opportunities for students. “Kenyon obviously has such an extraordinary reputation and commitment to academic rigor and intellectual inquiry, and I believe those qualities are so critical for when we are exploring what we want our contribution in the world to be,”…

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