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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Kalamazoo College students, faculty, staff and administrators conducted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Nov. 13 to celebrate the opening of the College’s new Admission Center. The former bed and breakfast at 106 Thompson St., next to West Main and across the street from Dow Science Center, opened to visitors Oct. 23. Still, this gathering recognized how the […]

Make plans today to attend three music concerts this weekend featuring Kalamazoo College students. 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 10, at the Dalton Theatre: Directed by Thomas G. Evans, Kalamazoo College’s Jazz Band pulls together an eclectic collection of contemporary and classic jazz arrangements to provide the students participating and the audience members an electric experience. […]

“Fun Home,” a Tony Award-winning musical adapted for the stage by Kalamazoo College alumna Lisa Kron ’83 and Jeanine Tesori from a best-selling graphic memoir of the same name, will be the Festival Playhouse’s first production of its 54th season. K is the first college in the nation to present “Fun Home” and organizers expect […]

We all have a shadow, but Mickey’s has a name: Michele. Beginning this fall and throughout the school year, Michele Kelly, associate dean of arts and sciences at Macomb Community College, will periodically shadow Kalamazoo College Provost Mickey McDonald. McDonald’s mentorship of Kelly is under the auspices of the Michigan-ACE Network for Women Leaders in […]

Welcome, families, to Family Weekend at Kalamazoo College! Below you will find a list of activities along with links to the campus map in our virtual tour, providing the locations of each facility. Questions about Family Weekend may be directed to Dana Jansma, Associate Dean of Students in the Student Development Office at 269-337-7209 or […]

FINE ARTS DIVISION The Brian Gougeon Prize in ArtHannah Rainaldi The Margaret Upton Prize in MusicJoshua GibsonJenna Sherman Cooper AwardKate Kreiss Sherwood PrizeCody Colvin Theatre Arts First-Year Student AwardSophia HillAlysia Homminga FOREIGN LANGUAGES DIVISION LeGrand Copley Prize in FrenchValentina CorderoRavi Nair Hardy Fuchs AwardMatthew Flotemersch Margo Light AwardAnnarosa Whitman Romance Languages Department Prize in SpanishJoshua […]

Joseph Stulberg ’67 says he sometimes marvels at how two or three years spent in a particular place can set the course for a lifetime. For Stulberg, more commonly known as Josh, that place was Kalamazoo College, where people like David Scarrow, then a philosophy professor, and Scarrow’s wife Janet served as role models who […]