The Hellie Years: A Look at the Legacy of Linfield\u27s 19th President

Richard Ekman was only eight years out of graduate school, a tenured history professor and dean at Hiram College, when the curriculum vitae for Thomas L. Hellie came across his desk in 1980. Ekman, who admits to being “very young” as an administrator in those days, followed a hunch and made a decision he still calls one of his best. Hellie, who hadn’t yet finished his Ph.D. dissertation at University of Missouri, became Hiram’s new assistant professor of theatre

Nursing in a War Zone

The al Asad Airbase in western Iraq is big. Really big. So big, in fact, that a decade ago it housed more than 17,000 U.S. servicemen and women and civilian contractors. It had a movie theater, two swimming pools and a Pizza Hut

The Liberal Arts under Attack

Economic and demographic shifts are creating a new reality for colleges and universities. Nowhere, perhaps, is that being felt more strongly than at private liberal arts colleges

Classroom 4.0

Artificial intelligence, once the stuff of futuristic books and films, is finding its way onto college campuses. How is American higher education adapting to the digital age

Alumni Notes

Schedule of upcoming events, brief articles about alumni activities, and a column by the alumni directo

Linfield Bound

From generation to generation, Wildcat values link us. Linfield\u27s director of communications and marketing, Scott Bernard Nelson (class of 1994), pens an essay explaining how decisions sometimes take us completely by surprise