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News and Updates

  • Portrait of ĢƵ Professor Penny Lane
    The San Francisco Chronicle writes: It’s a documentarian’s job to depict reality and truth. But what if the reality itself is in question? That was the conundrum filmmaker Penny Lane — her real name — faced when putting together her found-footage documentary The Pain of Others.
    June 11, 2018
  • Fireworks burst over tents at Reunion 2018
    What if you could go big and go home? That would be a ĢƵ reunion. Last weekend, more than 2,600 alumni and friends returned to ĢƵ for Reunion 2018.
    June 7, 2018
  • ĢƵ’s newly enrolled Class of 2022, one of the university’s largest, shows students joining the community in increasing numbers from the midwest, the Southeast, and New York, compared to class statistics from four years earlier.
    May 30, 2018
  • Memorial Wall in Washington, DC
    Editor’s note: In honor of Memorial Day, Bruce Guernsey ’66 shares his poem titled “The Wall,” which was selected to be published in the American Life in Poetry series started by poet laureate Ted Kooser. Guernsey was an English major at ĢƵ and is now a distinguished professor emeritus at Eastern Illinois University. He has […]
    May 28, 2018
  • Graduates hug after commencement 2018
    Today, members of the Class of 2018 received the degrees that they worked so hard to attain. Honored guests and familiar friends, rising to congratulate them, made clear that these graduates are taking their liberal arts education into a world of change.
    May 20, 2018
  • (Editor’s note: The following is a transcript of remarks delivered by Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, at ĢƵ’s 197th Commencement, Sunday, May 20, 2018.) President Casey, members of the faculty, and soon-to-be graduates of the Class of 2018 – good morning. It is a treat to be here with you today. […]
    May 20, 2018