Campus News


Celebrating Contributions

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

As part of Founders’ Day, the College awarded Middle Path Medals as well as a new award for faculty advising. This year’s Middle Path Medal recipients are Liz Forman ’73, retired senior associate director of admissions, and Jane Martindell, retired dean for academic advising and support. The medals are given to people who have made a significant contribution, either as an employee or volunteer, to the College, community or county.  Forman was a member of the inaugural class of Kenyon’s short-lived…

A Signature Tradition

That's So Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

In the age of electronic documents and cloud storage, one thing remains tangible at Kenyon: the Matriculation Book. Three leather-bound books, tucked into protective boxes, are housed in the vault in the Greenslade Special Collections and Archives in the Olin and Chalmers libraries. Each year, they’re brought out for all first-year students to sign on Founders’ Day. The first book, with its thick pages yellowing at the edges, contains the fading handwritten script of then-president David Bates…

Moving Forward

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

The Kenyon College Board of Trustees discussed long-term capital projects and planning for the next comprehensive campaign during its Oct. 22-23 meeting. Chaired by Brackett B. Denniston ’69 for the first time and meeting in Gambier, the board hosted a presentation by Graham Gund ’63 H’81, president of the architectural firm Gund Partnership, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and David Zenk, a principal at the firm. Gund shared his vision, based on the Campus Master Plan that was updated in 2014…

Path to the Future

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Kenyon is poised to embark on the third and final phase of the restoration of Middle Path, Chief Business Officer Mark Kohlman told the Kenyon College Board of Trustees at its Oct. 22-23 meeting in Gambier. The project includes the installation of stabilized gravel from the College Gates to Brooklyn Street to create new uses for the path in the center of Gambier, enhance accessibility and provide better drainage. “The primary reason for redoing this section is to make it more accessible,” Kohlman…

Newly Promoted

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

During its October meeting, the Kenyon College Board of Trustees approved the promotion of two faculty members to full professor.  Provost Joseph L. Klesner said the faculty Tenure and Promotion Committee looks carefully at the dossiers of candidates. “The committee is very thorough and judicious in its decision making, looking to the interests of the College,” he said.  Promotions as of July 1, 2016, include: Adam Serfass, associate professor of classics Serfass arrived at Kenyon in 2002…

Changes in Investment Management

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Kenyon moves into a new era of endowment management Jan. 1 when a private firm begins oversight of the College investment program. Chief Investment Officer Joseph Nelson will help guide the transition from College investment management to CornerStone Partners LLC, based in Charlottesville, Virginia. CornerStone will manage the investment portfolio for the $215 million Kenyon endowment and function as the chief investment officer (CIO) for the College. The Kenyon College Board of Trustees Investment…

After Class

Student Life From Alumni Bulletin - 9 years ago

Education, for most people, is what you get out of it: a degree, a life-changing experience, new ways of thinking. But for Phoebe Roe ’16, education has been about giving back. In the fall of her sophomore year, while writing for the Collegian, Roe discovered dire problems plaguing the East Knox Local School District, not far from campus. Repeated levy failures had thrown the district into a fiscal crisis in November 2013. Gym, art and music classes were cut. Clubs and Advanced Placement courses…

Contemplating Conflict

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Middle East scholar Phyllis Bennis, a fellow with an anti-war think tank, called for creativity among diplomats and an end to America’s military action in the region in a speech to a crowd of mostly students. Bennis, a critic of U.S. Middle East policies who works for the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., stressed in her talk Tuesday, Oct. 20, in Higley Hall auditorium that America should remove troops from the region to begin repairing political relationships in that part of the…

Triple Billing

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

From left: Jacob Yandura '09, Andrea Daly '06 and Harrison David Rivers '04. Photo by Michael Shane Of eight new productions presented at the Festival of New Musicals on Oct. 15-16, two had Kenyon connections. Jacob Yandura ’09 wrote the music for The Last Queen of Canaan, and Harrison David Rivers ’04 wrote the “book,” or narrative. Andrea Daly ’06 wrote the music for Legendale. The three knew each other — or of each other — while at Kenyon. They have built on those relationships as they progressed…

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