James R. Purlee has been elected to the Knox College Board of Trustees. Purlee operates Purlee Farms on more than 8,000 acres of farmland in and around Galesburg. Full Story
Knox College has received a $1.5 million gift from Dr. Richard W. Burkhardt and Dorothy Johnson Burkhardt to establish the Burkhardt Distinguished Chair in Modern Languages. Full Story
"Bring the arts into class, you'll see academic improvement," advises Knox professor Stephen Schroth, chair-elect of the arts panel of the National Association for Gifted Children. Full Story
Knox College is one of the country's top institutions for undergraduate education, according to the 2010 edition of The Princeton Review "Best 371 Colleges." Full Story
Knox College President Roger Taylor has been elected to the Illinois Humanities Council Board of Directors. Taylor is one of five new members elected at the board's April 24th meeting. Full Story
Knox College has been named one of the country's "best and most interesting colleges" in the 2010 edition of the "Fiske Guide to Colleges" by Edward B. Fiske. Full Story
An anonymous donor has made a $2 million gift to Knox to endow a Distinguished Chair for the Study of Religion and Culture. The faculty position will be filled in 2010. Full Story
Knox students and faculty have revived the campus-based Knox College/Illinois Prairie chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, the international education honor society. "This makes Knox the only national liberal arts college with a campus-based PDK chapter," said the new chapter president, Stephen Schroth, assistant professor of education at Knox. Full Story
By June 30, the end of the Knox College fiscal year, more than 5,000 Knox alumni had given to the College, helping Knox receive $100,000 from Duke '74 and Nancy Petrovich. Full Story