On The Edge News

By Anna Hansen Following growing concerns regarding program cuts, Edgewood College faculty met Sept. 23 to discuss a way forward.   Among proposed changes: general education courses would be reconfigured to account for the budget issues the college is facing.  That would mean combining single credit courses into multiple credit courses, which would shrink the number of general education courses while still offering necessary credits, […]

By Santi Elbow Edgewood College’s Student Senate has a set of goals for the 2019-2020 academic year. Student Senate President Sydney Wilcox said this is a group that represents “the student body and what kind of needs or wants the students want Student Senate to advocate for them.”  One of Student Senate’s goals is to continue spreading […]

By Ari Ebert-Standard and Alyssa Allemand  Edgewood College opened the Queer Student Center this semester, located in Predolin 208. The center is a partnership between the Office of Student Inclusion and Involvement and the Women’s and Gender Studies program.  Executive Director of Diversity Tony Garcia said this space exists “because of over a decade of students, faculty […]

By Lexi Chitwood Edgewood College has hired a new Vice President for Enrollment Management, Amber Schultz, Ed.D., who has been in the position for just over a month. She assumes the role previously held by Christine Benedict.  Dr. Schultz came to Edgewood with an outside perspective and a fresh eye on its enrollment issues. “We’re […]

By Maria Chacin  Edgewood College senior Natasha Sichula, Dominican leader and women’s health advocate, was among a group of 100 students selected to attend the first-ever United Nations Youth Climate Summit, receiving a UN sponsorship, or a “Green Ticket,” to participate. There were over 7,000 applicants.  The UN Youth Climate Summit “is a platform for young leaders […]

By Mimi Wells  Two Edgewood students plan to start a co-ed dance team by the end of the 2019 fall semester.  Junior Maddie Budner and freshman Maria Hamner got the idea for this student organization when they took a theater class together.   Budner said she wished Edgewood had a dance team, and Hamner agreed. Both of them have been dancing […]

By Hayley Nau  As the new director of the Edgewood College Center for Multicultural Education, Dr. Phyllis Esposito has developed a new set of workshops that include “one-on-one consultations, departmental sessions and drop in hours.”  Dr. Esposito, who was hired for a new full-time position as director of the program for the 2019-2020 school year, […]

By Kate Martinez  Dr. Tom Holub has completed his sabbatical after spending the last semester doing research at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.   Holub is a senior professor in the School of Education at Edgewood College who works to help train special education teachers, and he has spent a lot of […]

By Hannah Devyor  In spring of 2021, the Edgewood College Athletic Department will be introducing men’s volleyball and both men’s and women’s lacrosse to the lineup of athletics offered at the college.   Amidst the chatter of declining enrollment at Edgewood, Athletic Director Al Brisack has high hopes for the new teams encouraging incoming freshmen to choose Edgewood as […]

By Jena Emmert Last March, Edgewood College put together the Program Prioritization Commission, a 16-member group of faculty and staff commissioned to create a set of recommendations to reduce programs and classes.   The recommendations regarding major reductions and layoffs of faculty and staff made by the commission are now being considered with a Nov. 15 deadline.   Majors such as Theatre […]