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February 13, 2019Anne M. Houtman, a distinguished educator, scientist, author, and higher education leader, will become the 20th president of Earlham College and the Earlham School of Religion. She will take office on July 1, 2019.

February 11, 2019More than 100 outdoor educators will visit Earlham College for a three-day student-led conference. Jordan Lehman ’19 and Morgan Bailey ’20 are co-organizers of the 2019 Midwest Outdoor Leadership Conference (MWOLC) taking place across campus on Feb. 15-17.

February 08, 2019Earlham College has received an anonymous gift of $1 million in memory of Robert F. Southard, a professor of history and Jewish studies, who died in 2007.

January 31, 2019Earlham College has once again been recognized as one the nation’s best returns on investment in higher education, according to The Princeton Review, a leading educational services company.

January 31, 2019Earlham had two teams place in the top five of the Michigan Autumn Take Home (MATH) Challenge, a team-oriented math competition. Seventy-one undergraduates from 27 liberal arts colleges and universities across the country participated in this year’s event.

January 28, 2019Earlham's presidential search committee has invited four candidates to participate in on-campus interviews during the first week in February 2019.

January 08, 2019New funding secured by Earlham College’s Joseph Moore Museum will support a three-year project resulting in a digital database of the museum’s 35,000 insect specimens in its collection.

December 21, 2018Earlham College took an important step towards financial sustainability when its Board of Trustees approved resolutions to reduce expenses and create a new plan to envision the future of the College.

December 20, 2018Earlham College and the Grew Bancroft Foundation in Tokyo have formed a new partnership to provide scholarships to Japanese students to earn degrees at Earlham.

December 18, 2018Three Global Management majors from Earlham College will comprise one of just eight teams invited from around the United States to compete in the regional round of the 2019 APICS Case Competition on February 15-16 in Chicago.

November 29, 2018Earlhamites are more likely to engage in high-impact learning practices than their peers at other colleges and universities, according to a survey of undergraduates in the United States and Canada.

November 13, 2018Interim President Avis Stewart announced today that Earlham College will suspend its football program for the 2019 season and has authorized a review of the program.

November 12, 2018Earlham College is a national leader for making programs and initiatives that are worth imitating, emulating and spreading far and wide, according to College Consensus’ “50 Most Underrated Colleges Doing Great Things.”

November 09, 2018Former Earlham President Alan Price ’88 has been appointed Director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston. The institution is a federal institution and is part of the National Archives and Records Administration.

November 08, 2018Nick Johnson has decided to step down from his position as Earlham College’s Head Football Coach at the end of the season in order to better attend to the needs of his family.

October 23, 2018Assistant Professor of Chemistry Patrick Barber is bringing new funding and leadership to Earlham College in support of research opportunities for local high school students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

October 22, 2018Research Professor of the Liberal Arts Welling Hall will present her gun violence sculptures and give an artist talk “Art Transforming Violence” on November 14, at the FCNL's Quaker Welcome Center in Washington, D.C.

October 09, 2018Howard Ly ’18 and Anya Frederickson ’18 are serving youth and families as part of the Pittsburgh Urban Leadership Service Experience (PULSE), a yearlong service and leadership program.

September 24, 2018The interdepartmental Biochemistry program at Earlham College has been granted a full seven-year term of accreditation by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB).

September 12, 2018Earlham College will award a $15,000 stipend, the result of a gift from the late Andy Cecere ’45. The recipient will be a member of the Class of 2019 and a finalist for the Watson Fellowship, and the gift will provide for a year of international travel in pursuit of a personal passion.

September 11, 2018Arish Mudra Rakshasa ’19, a Biochemistry and Neuroscience double major, has been selected by the Global Liberal Arts Alliance to attend the sixth annual New York Times Athens Democracy Forum on full scholarship.

September 10, 2018In the 2019 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s annual “Best Colleges” guidebook, Earlham ranks 14th for value and 22nd for having a strong commitment to undergraduate teaching, a recognition reserved for just 33 liberal arts colleges.

September 04, 2018Caitlin Corrigan-Orosco ’19 was elected this summer to share the American view of migration and citizenship with scholars from around the world through an appointment with the International Political Science Association.

August 24, 2018Earlham College has received a $3 million gift from alumni Alan ’74 and Peggy Scantland ’74 to enhance the student experience, support enrollment initiatives and expand opportunities for student-faculty collaborative learning.

August 23, 2018Earlham Interim President Avis Stewart is among a group of 24 leaders from Indiana institutions of higher education to sign a letter urging the General Assembly to pass a hate crimes law.

August 22, 2018Nearly 300 new Earlhamites begin their undergraduate studies today as the 2018-19 academic year begins. With an average GPA of 3.7 and many finishing at or near the top of their high school classes, these new students boast impressive academic and co-curricular credentials.

August 21, 2018Sarah Rebecca “Becky” Thomas, Ph.D. has been hired as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty. Thomas was previously the Dean of the College at Bard College where she had been a member of the teaching faculty since 2000.

August 14, 2018Earlier this summer, nine Earlhamites, a majority of whom have never traveled outside of the United States, worked alongside medical professionals from the Foundation for the International Medical Relief for Children (FIMRC) across Costa Rica.

August 10, 2018In conjunction with a meeting of its Board of Trustees on Saturday, August 11, 2018, Earlham College is cooperating with a group of concerned alumni who have organized an event called, “Holding Earlham College in the Light.”

August 07, 2018Earlham College boasts some of the nation’s best classroom experiences and most active student governments, according to The Princeton Review’s Best 384 Colleges. For its 2019 guide, Earlham ranks 7th for “Best Classroom Experience,” and 20th for “Most Active Student Government.”