“How many poets does it take to change a light bulb?” The telling quip and rhetorical joke from Lie Ford, a senior English major from Knoxville, Tennessee, references…
The world is unfair. For Jennan ’25, that doesn’t mean give up. Born and raised in Berea, Kentucky, Jennan grew up surrounded by Berea College’s influence. Her dad…
Though Shaun ’25 and Nicole ’26 came from much different backgrounds, their experiences share a common thread. Both communication and child and family studies double majors sought a…
Psychology professors Dr. Ian Norris (left) and Dr. Alison Heck (right) help prepare Claudia Read ’24 for experiencing new capabilities within Berea’s recently upgraded psychology lab. Photo by…
Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, author and civil rights icon Janis Ian became famous before she was old enough for college, so she never got to go. Along the rise…
While pursuing his master’s degree at Harvard, Adam Howard ’93 found himself at an elite boys’ school outside Boston. For the previous two months, he had been researching…
Until age 12, Yogesh Budhathoki ’22 had lived with his extended family in southeastern Nepal, with grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. Then, he and his parents and brother…
A native of North Carolina, Dani ’25 works as the finishing manager in Student Craft. She takes various products and cuts them down to size and neatens up…
In eastern Kentucky rests Olive Hill, a little foothill town straddling two counties, Carter and Elliott. It’s not far from Grayson, which is not far from Ashland, which…
Julian Higgins ’60 was the youngest of 12 children, 10 of whom attended Berea, either at the Foundation School or the College. The Higgins family lived on a…