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On Thursday, September 12, students, faculty and staff, set aside their normal schedules to take part in Campus Day. A Hiram College tradition stretching back to 1921, Campus Day gives everyone the opportunity to take part in community service projects across the campus and throughout the surrounding community.

Hiram College has been recognized as a top college according to the newly released 2020 U.S. News & World Report rankings.  

In recent years, Hiram College has been a front-runner in designing and implementing bold academic changes under a model aptly known as the New Liberal Arts™. The College is now taking steps to make its New Liberal Arts more accessible with a new tuition model that will reduce the published tuition and mandatory fees by 35 percent, starting in fall 2020, in addition to offering free summer courses and paid internships.

Alexia Kemerling, Hiram College Garfield Presidency Scholar, recaps her experiences on the group’s academic year-commencing retreat to Hiram College’s Northwoods Field Station in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The trip was led by Douglas Brattebo, Ph.D., associate professor of political science and director of the James A. Garfield Center for the Study of the American Presidency. Jeff Swenson, associate professor of English, also accompanied the group. Twenty-nine students, first-years to seniors, from a wide range of majors, comprise this year’s group of Scholars.

The 2019 edition of Washington Monthly’s College Guide and Rankings has listed Hiram College as number four in the country among colleges and universities that award bachelor’s degrees almost exclusively.

A special message from Dean Judy Muyskens to Hiram College students before the start of the 2019-2020 academic year.

Ellen R. Stofan, Ph.D., the John and Adrienne Mars Director of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and former Chief Scientist of NASA, will address the Class of 2023 at Hiram Colleges’ Matriculation Convocation on Thursday, August 22.

Hiram College has been named one of the 159 best colleges in the Midwest according to The Princeton Review.

A recent article by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette features Hiram College as an example among small private colleges rethinking their approach to curriculum, tuition costs, and hands-on learning experiences provided to students.

Thanks to the generosity of alumni and friends, Hiram College has posted the fourth consecutive year of record-breaking fundraising, bringing in $10.2 million in cash during the 2018-19 fiscal year. This is the first-ever double digit fundraising year for the College.