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College welcomes 425
first-time students:
With its enrollment figure for the 2008-09 academic year confirmed,
Monmouth College experienced another strong admission year and is
already looking ahead to greater success, according to dean of
admission Christine Johnston. The college welcomed 425 first-time
students in August, including 383 first-time freshmen, which puts
the school’s overall enrollment at 1,328 students. Monmouth hopes to
gradually build on that total in the next few years, eventually
capping enrollment at approximately 1,500. Johnston is optimistic
that the goal can be achieved. “This next year, we’re going to make
a real push for out-of-state students,” she said. “We’ve got a
couple of exciting initiatives we’re going to get off the ground in
the months ahead.”
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… Which brings us to:
Patrick Lupton of Lake Forest, Ill., has joined the staff at
Monmouth College in the new position of regional director of
admission. Lupton has a strong background in higher education,
having worked at Ellis College, Lake Forest College and Kendall
College. At the latter two schools, he worked in admission-related
positions. He comes to the MC position from Kendall, a top-rated
college for culinary arts, hotel and hospitality management,
business and education in downtown Chicago. Lupton will be charged
with increasing MC’s out-of-state enrollment, in particular the
states bordering Illinois and areas of the Southeast and Southwest.
He will also help develop and support networks of alumni for
referring and identifying potential prospective students for
Monmouth.
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Steven
Skinner to give Whiteman Lecture:
Microsoft executive Steven Skinner will deliver the Wendell Whiteman
Memorial Lecture on Oct. 16 at 11 a.m. in Monmouth College’s Dahl
Chapel and Auditorium. Free and open to the public, the lecture
annually brings a noted business executive or scholar to the college
campus. The title of Skinner’s talk is “Ten Keys to a Successful
Career in Business.” The general manager for worldwide industry
strategy and solutions for Microsoft Corp. in its Sales, Marketing
and Services Group, Skinner is a strategic thinker, known for his
world-class skills in multi-channel retail strategy, shareholder
value analysis and global supply chain management. A 1980 graduate
of Monmouth High School, Skinner earned his bachelor’s degree in
economics from the United States Naval Academy and an MBA from the
University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business.
Scots swimmers to
get new coach:
Monmouth College will begin a nationwide search for a new
swimming coach following the decision by two-time Midwest Conference
Men’s Coach of the Year Keith Crawford to accept a similar position
at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Crawford recently announced his decision to
leave Monmouth for the Terre Haute, Ind., school citing the
opportunity to move closer to his family in Indiana. Crawford was
hired in 2004 to resurrect the men’s swimming program after a
20-year layoff and establish a women’s swimming program at Monmouth.
Under his direction, the Fighting Scots quickly developed into a
contender in the MWC. The men placed second in the conference meet
the last two years and the women steadily improved, finishing as
high as fourth place in the conference in 2007. Longtime assistant
Dave Yez, a 1964 Monmouth College graduate, has been named the
interim head coach.
