Dr. Jarrod Brown ’04, assistant professor of philosophy, was 8 when his favorite hunting dog, a beagle named Bingosh, died having puppies. “I was pretty distraught,” he said.…
As a senior in high school, I didn’t have a plan for going to college. None of my family members had gone, and it wasn’t something we discussed.…
In 2009, Jamie Nunnery Oleka ’13 arrived in Berea full of promise, excitement and a little shock that she was beginning her college journey. Her family had driven…
Growing up, all Cody Myers ’17 knew was a farm. Living in Lenoir City, Tenn., where an internet connection was seen as a luxury, Myers imagined his future…
We reached out to two recent graduates and asked how Berea has impacted their lives. These are their responses. “Berea has given me opportunities that I never thought…
Long before bookmobiles or Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, Berea College librarians were steering covered wagons into rural mountain towns, bringing books to communities that lacked this precious resource.…
In the summer of 1968, following graduation from Berea College, I had a full scholarship to attend graduate school at Johns Hopkins University. A Ford Foundation staff member…
When Margaret Cox ’72 thought about her future as a child, it didn’t involve owning a strawberry farm. However, it would turn out that she would find her…
Garett ’21 A conversation with Berea College senior, Garett, is sprinkled with stories: stories about family and place, stories that serve to connect people. Garett grew up in…
Sometimes a labor assignment can lead to a lifelong passion. For Tim Marema ’85, it also led to the creation of a rural news website that is read…