When the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on considering race in the admissions process was announced on June 29, 2023, it gave us an opportunity to better appreciate and…
Last December, we introduced you to Dr. Kiki Anderson Ramsey ’02, the CEO of the Positive Psychology Coaching and Diversity Institute, a group of 30 coaches who work…
Berea College’s founder, Rev. John G. Fee, was born into a wealthy slaveholding family in Bracken County, Ky. During his theological training at Lane Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio,…
Building relationships, finding identity and cultivating purpose—these core attributes of Berea College’s Black Male Leadership Initiative (BMLI) changed the course of Jordan (Tré) Sims’ life. The 2015 graduate…
On Sept. 22, just days before bell hooks’ 69th birthday, Berea College officially launched the opening of the bell hooks center on campus. Located in the iconic Draper…
Erika ’23 An unfortunate message perpetuated about Appalachia is the “get-out” narrative: the encouragement for young people to get an education and go elsewhere to find better prospects…
Eastern Kentucky saw a new day when Appalshop unveiled the largest net-metered renewable energy system in the area in June 2019. The solar panels were installed to address…
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…
James and Cynthia Hicks Although their time at Berea overlapped, Cynthia Hairston Hicks ’79 and James Hicks ’76 did not know each other as students. They were introduced…
Jessie Ball duPont Fund To hear Mari Kuraishi, president of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, describe her philanthropy’s mission is to catch a distinctly American ethos at work.…