On The Edge News

By Lexi DeMinter and Santi Elbow  Edgewood College enrollment is 89% ahead on confirmed freshmen students as of March 15.  In March 2019, there were 132 confirmed first-year students as opposed to this March when there are 250 confirmed first-year students for the fall.   Confirmation process  This is in part because Amber Schultz, vice president for enrollment management, has worked to make the confirmation process easier […]

By Anna Hansen  An email with the subject line “A Healthy Competition,” sent to 180 Edgewood College community members on Feb. 28, has stirred confusion and criticism.    The email, sent by Chase Crull, vice president of Edgewood’s Student Veterans Association (SVA), encouraged participation in a weight loss competition modeled after the controversial reality TV show “The Biggest […]

By Rachel Gomoll  Edgewood College Student Senate and SAFE, the LGBTQ+ advocacy group on campus, came together March 3 to have a town hall where they discussed how Student Senate could help SAFE, as well as promote next year’s MBLGTACC, the Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Asexual College Conference.  Campus requests  SAFE President Sean O’Brien asked whether students could […]

By Alyssa Allemand   Appointments will not be renewed for a number of Edgewood College faculty after this spring semester. Vice President for Academic Affairs Margaret Noreuil told faculty in a Feb. 28 letter.  Shad Wenzlaff, director of student research and senior lecturer of Art History, said there are 10 faculty in this group of cuts, though Noreuil has […]

By Alyssa Allemand  Faculty Association will vote on a design minor on March 30.   Faculty presented the proposal at the Feb. 24 Faculty Association meeting.   The minor is a collaboration across the theatre, art, physics and computer science departments, said Shad Wenzlaff, senior lecturer of Art History. Wenzlaff is responsible for “launching and maintaining” the minor, according […]

By Alyssa Allemand The president’s leadership team will discuss whether to switch to a pass/fail grading scale in a meeting tomorrow (March 25).  In an email, Edgewood College Interim President Sister Mary Ellen Gevelinger said this decision would also require input from faculty. This email was sent to Edgewood sophomore Marie Ruth Treleven, the student […]

By Anna Hansen  Students displaced from Edgewood College campus housing in response to the spread of COVID-19 will receive refunds, Residence Life said in an email on March 19.  “Resident students who have left campus due to the COVID-19 event will receive prorated refunds of room and board,” the email said.   Money refunded to students will be applied to any outstanding charges […]

By Alyssa Allemand  A petition calling for Edgewood College to implement a pass/fail grading system in light of the COVID-19 pandemic has already gathered 700 signatures, according to its creator, sophomore Marie Ruth Treleven.  Treleven addressed the petition to Interim President Sister Mary Ellen Gevelinger on March 19, the same day the college announced the permanent switch to online classes for Spring 2020.   As of Monday evening, the petition […]

By Jena Emmert Several campus resources will operate online as Edgewood College has limited campus access and suspended face-to-face learning for the rest of Spring 2020. Interim President Sister Mary Ellen Gevelinger announced on Thursday that courses will be fully online for the remainder of the Spring 2020 semester. This announcement comes after COVID-19 is declared […]

By Alyssa Allemand Edgewood College has canceled the graduation ceremony scheduled for May 17. Commencement Liturgy, scheduled for the same weekend, is also canceled. Students, faculty and staff were informed of the cancellations in an email from Vice President for Academic Affairs Margaret Noreuil on March 23. “We are exploring alternative ways to celebrate the enormous […]