Documentary Featuring K Psychology Professor Coming to Portage
Mark your calendars today. “SCORE: A Film Music Documentary,” featuring Kalamazoo College Psychology Professor Siu-Lan Tan among its interviewees, is coming Sept. 22-28 to Celebration! Cinema Crossroads in Portage. Two showings, one at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 23 and one at 12:30 p.m. Sept. 24, will include question-and-answer sessions with Dr. Tan. Kalamazoo Film Society President […]
National Honors Are Music to Math Professor’s Ears
Two national honors, thanks in part to Kalamazoo College mathematics professor Eric Barth, are providing a local children’s music program with recognition and funds for expansion. Barth has served as the curriculum director and conductor of Kalamazoo Kids in Tune (KKIT), an afterschool orchestra immersion program available to first- through eighth-graders, since its inception in […]
Actresses Tomlin, Fonda Visit K, Raise Minimum-Wage Awareness
Two legendary, award-winning actresses – Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin – visited Kalamazoo College and the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership (ACSJL) on Tuesday to heighten awareness about an initiative to raise the minimum wage of Michigan residents. ROC United, a restaurant workers and workers’ rights group, brought Fonda and Tomlin to K for […]
Students Welcome to Audition for ‘Fun Home’
Students are welcome to try out for “Fun Home,” a Tony-award winning musical that will be the first Festival Playhouse production of the year. Auditions are scheduled for 7 to 10 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12, and Wednesday, Sept. 13. Callbacks are Thursday, Sept. 14. Find more information on what to expect with auditioning and the […]
K President Signs GLCA Statement Regarding DACA
Kalamazoo College President Jorge G. Gonzalez has joined 10 other Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) presidents in a joint statement titled “Pathways for Childhood Arrivals” regarding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced last Tuesday that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals order would end in six months. […]
Kalamazoo’s 3 College Presidents Address DACA
A message about DACA developments from the presidents of Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo Valley Community College and Western Michigan University. To our campus communities: Our hearts go out to all DACA students, and we stand committed to the idea that their success as students and members of our community enhances the success of each of our […]
Convocation Launches New Academic Year
UPDATE: A chance of rain is pushing Convocation indoors this afternoon, Sept. 6. Join us in the gymnasium at Anderson Athletics Center. Kalamazoo College will begin the 2017-18 academic year at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, with its annual Convocation ceremony for new students. K will welcome 455 first-year students including 13 transfer students and […]
Learn the Ropes of Change Ringing at K
Michiganders’ lone opportunity to participate in an international event and learn the ropes of change ringing will be at Kalamazoo College. K will welcome the public into Stetson Chapel to see a demonstration of English change ringing on tower and hand bells by members of the Kalamazoo College Guild of Change Ringers at 2 p.m. […]
Initial Wait Leads K Student to Boren Scholarship
“Pleasant surprise” and “final exams” rarely are uttered in the same breath even at Kalamazoo College. Yet Kimberly Yang ’19, of Grand Rapids, Mich., received welcome news around finals time this past spring. Yang first was placed on a waiting list in mid-April after applying for a Boren Scholarship, a prestigious grant that allows students […]
Kalamazoo Named Among Top College Towns
If you need another reason to apply to Kalamazoo College this year, try its city on for size. The American Institute for Economic Research has ranked Kalamazoo 20th among small metropolitan areas on its list of top college towns in the United States. Some reasons for the city’s recognition include its restaurant scene, local arts […]
New York Times, Architectural Digest Feature Alumna Julie Mehretu
A Kalamazoo College alumna is receiving attention from publications including Architectural Digest and the New York Times for her latest artwork, a commission for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Artist Julie Mehretu ’92, of New York City, has worked for the past 14 months at a deconsecrated Harlem church on two towering paintings […]
K Student Among First AmeriFirst Interns
Kalamazoo College student Peter Rossi ’18 is among the first students to take advantage of a new internship program that teaches students about the mortgage industry. Rossi, a computer science major and music minor from Kalamazoo, is one of nine college juniors and seniors learning career skills this summer through AmeriFirst, a mortgage banker in […]