Each year, the Willis D. Weatherford Jr. Campus Christian Center (CCC) trains its student chaplains to serve the student body. Typically, this in-person, on-campus training prepares them to…
Imagine you’re walking in the forest and you see a bear,” said Nadine Burke-Harris, a Canadian-American pediatrician, during a 2014 TEDMed talk. “Your heart starts to pound, your…
Winter 2021 We have finally made it through 2020 and are anxious to start fresh with a new year that, I hope, feels very different than the last.…
Berea College Counseling Services Over the past decade, rates of anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts among college students have risen significantly, leading more students to seek help at…
Dr. Jan Pearce In a field where women have slowly dwindled from earning 37 percent of undergraduate degrees in 1985 to 18 percent in 2019, Dr. Jan Pearce…
As the world was still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic early in 2020, our nation once again collided with injustice as deaths of Black men and women at…
Veronica Mauratic Veronica Mauratic ’22 spent her childhood constantly moving—never feeling settled, never feeling like she belonged. She homeschooled herself through middle school and finally landed in Somerset,…
The biennial Civil Rights Seminar and Tour began in 2013 as a counterpart to the College’s Appalachian Tour. The former revisits the work of civil rights activists, many…
Dear Berea Alumni and Friends, The year 2020 is definitely one for the history books. As the world was still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, our nation collided…
Dr. Thomas Boyd was known for his fiery, tell-it-like-it-is personality, his tweed coats with patches at the elbow, and a voracious appetite for reading. A scholar-activist with strong…