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Alisha Knight Earns Cromwell Award for Innovation in Teaching

10/20/2020

Dr. Alisha Knight has been awarded the Cromwell Award for Innovation in Teaching, an honor that is handed out each fall to an instructor for exceptional accomplishments in pedagogy, including using new instructional technologies, revamping traditional technologies in creative ways, applying novel approaches to instruction, innovating in curricular development and engaging students in the learning process in new ways.

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Students Get Out the Vote

10/20/2020

The Student Government Association launched a social media campaign to encourage members of the Washington College community to vote in the upcoming presidential election, now just two weeks away.

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Washington College Rises in Ranks of Top Institutions on Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education and US News & World Report Lists

09/25/2020

Washington College has once again been ranked among the nation's top institutions by the WSJ/THE and US News & World Report, as part of their annual education rankings.

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Members of the full team accepting the Preservation Maryland Award for their joint work on the Cultural Landscape Assessment Report for Kent County.

Washington College Teams Up with Other Kent County Organizations to Produce Award-Winning Cultural Landscape Assessment Report

09/23/2020

The Preliminary Cultural Landscape Assessment Report that Washington College helped produce was recently awarded the Smart Growth Excellence Award by Preservation Maryland, as part of this year’s Best of Maryland awards.

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Irene Moore with Jasmyn Castro and JuJuan Johnson

Chesapeake Heartland Project Builds Bridges With Local African American Community

09/22/2020

Through a public history project funded by the Mellon Foundation, Washington College’s Starr Center for the Study of The American Experience is collecting and preserving the stories of Kent County’s African American families.

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WC Among Princeton Review's "Best Colleges"

09/04/2020

Washington College is one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features the school in the new 2021 edition of its college guide, "The Best 386 Colleges."

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Distinguished Teacher of the Year

09/01/2020

Alisha Knight Is Washington College’s 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award Winner

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Michael Harvey Named Interim Provost

08/25/2020

Michael Harvey, the John S. Toll Associate Professor of Business Management, has been named to a three-year term as Interim Provost and Dean of Washington College.

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Seven Finalists Named for George Washington Prize

08/24/2020

Washington College’s Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience has announced the finalists for the 2020 George Washington Prize.

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Washington College Taps Wayne Powell As Interim President

08/10/2020

A former mathematics professor-turned-higher education administrator has been tapped as Washington College's 32nd president, succeeding Kurt Landgraf.

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