Swinging slowly and silently, the pendulum in the Margaret A. Cargill Natural Sciences and Health (MAC) Building cuts through the air, carving a path…
In the 1930s, one of Oscar Gunkler’s earliest assignments at Berea College was to administer swim screenings. In his memoir, “May I Say A…
What type of career can a student studying anthropology pursue? “Almost anything,” says Dr. Broughton Anderson, associate professor of archeology at Berea College. Berea…
The CMIT building, pronounced “commit” in reference to the Great Commitments of Berea College, opened April 25, 2025. The dedication of the Communications, Media,…
When Bobby Starnes was 7 years old, while driving through Berea from her home in Dayton, Ohio, to family-owned land in Knott County, Ky.,…
Many of Berea’s faculty members were once first-generation students. As the first in his family to graduate from college, Julian Viera Jr. started out…
For Adam LeMaster ’25, identity was difficult to pin down. He knew he was Appalachian, although he didn’t have the words to describe exactly…
Dr. Robert Stafford ’89 is a tireless advocate for rural education. Throughout his long and impressive career, he’s served Kentucky’s students in many ways—as…