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This past fall, mass communication professor Paul Wesman’s Multi-Platform Storytelling course attracted students interested in writing and creating visual content. “Employers are keen to hire individuals with many skills,” Professor Wesman says. “Our students have tremendous potential as writers, photographers and videographers, and this course brought these elements together.” ...

Each year, the Lincoln Academy—a not-for-profit, nonpartisan organization—honors college seniors in the state of Illinois for overall excellence in academics and extracurricular ac­tivities. Selected through a highly competitive, campus-wide nomination process, Shelby Lemons is this year’s Principia College Lincoln Academy Student Laureate.

A political science, sociology, and Spanish triple ...

On the Friday before Thanksgiving week, the girls’ varsity basketball team succeeded in getting the entire Upper School out on the basketball court in McCalmont.

But they weren’t there to dribble or dunk! Instead, students and teachers spread out across the gleaming wood floor to prepare a Thanksgiving gift—colorful ...

As is always the case with Dance Production, creativity and joy filled Cox Auditorium as 43 students from many different majors showcased various dance styles—ballet, jazz, tap, modern, Baroque, Latin, and traditional Caribbean.

The dancers can’t say enough good about their experience, as you’ll learn from the slide show ...

A group of Principia College students and several faculty interested in sustainability issues recently attended the keynote address at the Sustainable Cities Conference at Washington University in St. Louis. The address was delivered by Bill McKibben, Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and one of America’s best-known environmentalists. McKibben has ...

Principia College was recently recognized by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn’s Campus Sustainability Compact and the Green Government Coordinating Council as a Bronze Level Compact School, an honor awarded educational institutions that are leaders in sustainability. Specifically, the bronze award recognizes institutions "making a commitment to creating a sustainability program and ...

School buildings and college campuses are buzzing again after the summer break, but you don't have to go anywhere to continue your education. Your couch or kitchen table will work just fine! You can take Principia Lifelong Learning (PLL) online courses anywhere in the world as long as you have ...

Get 2013 off to an enriching start with an online course through Principia Lifelong Learning (PLL). All you need is a computer and access to the Internet.

PLL online courses offer adult learners the best of traditional and online instruction in one compact, month-long session. One night a week, ...

Neil Simon’s play Rumors literally starts with a bang. In fact, this may be one of the few shows in Principia College history with this disclaimer printed in the program: “Attention: gunshots will be fired during this production.”

Of course, there was also full disclosure on the cover of ...

Join Principia Internet Radio as political science and mass communication classes at Principia College work together to deliver five continuous hours of extensive, live coverage of national elections on Tuesday night, November 6. Tune in to Prin@thePolls , at 6 p.m. (CST), for breaking news reports, live call-ins, and analyses ...