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GLCA Appoints K Provost as its New President

GLCA Appoints K Provost as its New President

The Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) has appointed Kalamazoo College Provost Mickey McDonald as its new president. McDonald will begin his position at the GLCA in July 2018. K President Jorge Gonzalez will consult with faculty leadership to plan for the appointment of an interim provost to serve during the 2018-19 academic year. K will […]

Dean’s List Fall 2017

Dean’s List Fall 2017

Congratulations to the following Kalamazoo College students who achieved a grade-point average of 3.5 or better for a full-time course load of at least three units without failing or withdrawing from any course during the Fall 2017 academic term. Students who elect to take a letter-graded course on a credit/no credit basis (CR/NC) are not […]

K History Professor Unveils ‘Burr Conspiracy’ Book

K History Professor Unveils ‘Burr Conspiracy’ Book

Kalamazoo College History Professor James Lewis has released a new book through Princeton University Press about former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr. “The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis” explores Burr’s travels through the Trans-Appalachian West in 1805 and 1806, gathering support for a mysterious enterprise, leading to his arrest and […]

‘Fun Home’ Invited to Kennedy Center Festival

‘Fun Home’ Invited to Kennedy Center Festival

The Festival Playhouse of Kalamazoo College production of the Tony award-winning musical “Fun Home” will be presented at the Region III Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) in Indianapolis in January, preceded by an encore performance at the College’s Dalton Theatre. In November, K staged the college premiere of the musical, based on a […]

Happy Holidays from Kalamazoo College

Happy Holidays from Kalamazoo College

Dear Friends: We have called many places home: Michigan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Texas and California. During the holiday season, when thoughts naturally turn to home and family, ours come back to the place where destiny and good fortune have brought us: Kalamazoo College. The snowy Michigan winters cannot diminish the warmth with which we have […]

Estate Gift Burnishes Legacy of Women’s Athletics Pioneer

Estate Gift Burnishes Legacy of Women’s Athletics Pioneer

Ada “Tish” Loveless has added to her enduring legacy as the founder of women’s athletics at Kalamazoo College. A year after her death, a gift Loveless made to Kalamazoo College through her estate plan will fund a new endowed scholarship in the name of Marilyn Hinkle ’44, her lifelong friend who died in 2007. The […]

Arcus Center Announces 2017 Regional Fellowships

Arcus Center Announces 2017 Regional Fellowships

A Kalamazoo woman who participated in last year’s Kalamazoo County initiative to provide under-documented residents with government-issued IDs has earned one of three Regional Fellowships from the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College. Nelly Fuentes, of Movimiento Cosecha Kalamazoo, hopes to expand the organization with the project funds she receives through the […]

K President: Congressional Plan a ‘Tax on Knowledge’

K President: Congressional Plan a ‘Tax on Knowledge’

Kalamazoo College President Jorge G. Gonzalez is among the higher-education officials raising concern for a tax plan under consideration in Congress. In an interview Monday on Michigan Radio’s “Stateside” program, Gonzalez said the provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act currently under consideration are alarming because they could make college more expensive and less […]

BachFest Christmas! a Major Debut for New Music Director

BachFest Christmas! a Major Debut for New Music Director

Speaking about his ambitions for the Kalamazoo Bach Festival, new Music Director Christopher Ludwa talks about what inspires him. Johann Sebastian Bach, the festival’s namesake? A reverence for the ancient traditions of choral music? The long history of the organization founded by Kalamazoo College Professor Henry Overly in 1946? All those things, of course. But […]

Performance Competition Brings Music Students to K

Performance Competition Brings Music Students to K

Kalamazoo College welcomes the students visiting this weekend for the Michigan Music Teachers Association Performance Competition for solo and chamber instrumentalists. Performances will be at Recital Hall, Dalton Theater and the band room at the Light Fine Arts Building. For those visiting students still in high school, take a look around campus and explore what […]

K Professor Releases Second Edition of ‘Psychology of Music’

K Professor Releases Second Edition of ‘Psychology of Music’

Kalamazoo College Psychology Professor Siu-Lan Tan, with co-authors Peter Pfordresher and Rom Harré, has released a second edition of her 2010 book titled “Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance.” The new version, released Nov. 6 through Routledge Publishing, considers music from its beginning as an acoustical signal to its manifestations across cultures. As a […]