Walking through the “All Peoples of the Earth” exhibition in the Doris Ulmann Galleries is a way to travel through both time and space while staying firmly grounded…
When I left Berea’s Office of African and African American Studies on July 31, 2019, I ended an almost 40-year affiliation with Berea College as either a student…
What happens when art steps out of the classroom and into the community? A pilot program called Art in Action (AIA) seeks to answer that question through creative…
When Lindsey Heuscher ’14 arrived at Berea College as a transfer student in 2011, she had no idea what to expect. A Seattle native, she applied on the…
STAYING COMMITTED It’s a challenging time for higher education. One of the most important sectors of our society has seen a loss of esteem by many Americans in…
At Berea, we often talk about how education opens doors. For many of our students and alumni, those doors were once closed, locked, or hidden from view. Yet…
Maurice Godsey ’60 remembers the coal dust. “Coal was the thing that from the time you woke up till you went to bed, you heard it, you smelled…
All doors were closed. That’s why Melissa Benson ’11 came to Berea College. “I was in my 30s,” she explained. “I had never finished college, and it was…
Life events, timing and who you meet sometimes seem random and unremarkable. Other times, they line up in unexplainable ways that put into motion the story of your…
Dear Alumni and Friends In our Winter 2024 issue, we shared inspiring, motivational and downright feel-good stories about the impact Bereans make worldwide. In that issue, I said,…