Heading off to college is a significant—and often stressful—transition in the lives of new students. Moving into a new home away from home, starting courses at an academically…
Kimberly’s story begins in Portland, Ore., where she lived with her mother and grandparents. Her mother had a lot of responsibility, worked primarily as an accountant but also…
For even the best students, transitioning from high school to college can be a challenge. They are moving from highly structured lives at home and school, with adult…
Summer 2023 I had been 18 for exactly three weeks when I came to college. I had completed four years at an outstanding, college-prep high school. In those…
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Writing Resources students help peers become better writers Berea student Leeroy ’23 doesn’t know how he would have made it through college without the support of Writing Resources.…
It’s a Saturday afternoon, and the main room of the Carter G. Woodson Center for Interracial Education is abuzz with people of color but with a diversity of…
In the day and age of internet messengers and social media, communicating through hand-written letters is a dying art. But when Cecelia McKinney ’56 posted on a Berea…
In August 2009, Kelci Reed ’13 left her small-town Indiana home and the single mother who had raised her and cried all the way to Berea. A self-described…
We asked Berea College alumni on Facebook to tell us how faculty and staff impacted their lives. Here’s what they said: Robin Mason(Child Development) “She said something in…