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 […]
By Reed Schroeder The Edgewood College debate team, currently classified as a club, will soon be cancelled. Daniel Mortensen, the former coach of the debate team, said the debate club still has some left-over funds and he would like to “turn debate into a true class” that would focus on the processes and aspects of debate. […]
By Jena Emmert Edgewood College will begin plans for laying off staff and faculty and reducing majors by Fall 2020 to accommodate for the college’s decline in enrollment. Sister Mary Ellen Gevelinger, O.P., interim president of the college, told her first college assembly that the Vice President and Dean of Students are currently working to finalize program prioritization, general education […]
By Alyssa Allemand and William R.K. Lund May 14, 2019 David Young has been a professor in the English Department at Edgewood College for 25 years. He taught classes in creative writing, literature, and journalism. He offered the department’s first courses in Irish Literature and Literature of the American West. “I enjoyed teaching those two courses […]
By Nikole Jaramillo Edgewood College students Sadie Cordova (senior), Jena Emmert (junior), and Carly Oeding (senior) were accepted to present their research at the Central States Communication Association (CSCA) Convention, which took place April 3-6 in Omaha. Cordova and Emmert were given spots in the President’s Undergraduate Honors Research poster session. Oeding presented on the panel “Dialogue through Mediated Portrayals.” According to […]
By Jacob Gomoll Edgewood College’s residence halls have a gross maximum capacity of 680 people; but they are only currently housing 473. This means that the residence halls are currently 207 below the maximum capacity of students. And that means that the college is losing a large sum of money by not filling up to […]
By William R.K Lund Keith A. Beauchamp has been speaking and giving lectures on the 1955 murder of black teenager Emmett Louis Till in Mississippi for over 20 years. He retold the grisly story again at Edgewood College for the 12th annual Hatheway Lecture on April 10 Beauchamp spoke about the life and death of Till and the injustice that surrounded it. “If we […]
By Santi Elbow The Edgewood College softball team only played six of their 10 scheduled games at the Tucson Invitational Games over spring break in March. Mackenzie Hoffman, a freshman on the team, said originally they were supposed to play 10 games. “Our break got cut a little short due to some weather conditions, so we ended up only […]
By Annika Lundgren LGBTQ+ students at Edgewood College say fellow students and the administration need to improve their efforts to make the campus genuinely inclusive. On April 2, Sadie Cordova, a senior at Edgewood College, organized a panel of LGBTQ+ students who spoke about their experiences on campus. Cordova said that she wanted “to create a space […]
