On the evening of Oct. 24, the class for Digital Media Communications Theory and History, DMC 100, hosted a Halloween party in Jewell Hall’s IDEAx lounge. Inside room 103, students set up a photobooth, haunted house walk-through set and Día de los Muertos altar, along with plenty of places to…
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Jewell releases 2022-23 COVID-19 guidelines
Nearly three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, responses from institutions of higher education remain ever-changing. Just ahead of the fall 2022 semester and amid declining local cases, William Jewell College released its 2022-23 Health and Safety Guidelines in July and announced a major revision on Sept. 01. Compared to Jewell’s…
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Brightspace replaces Moodle as Jewell’s learning management system.
As colleges and universities around the country reflect on online education following the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of an effective learning management system (LMS) becomes increasingly clearer to students, faculty and staff. This academic year, following a partial launch over the summer, William Jewell College implemented Brightspace as the college’s…
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Jewell moves to Operation Resurgent Campus Level A-1
On Nov. 1, William Jewell College transitioned into Level A-1 of its Operation Resurgent Campus plan. This plan was introduced at the beginning of the 2021-22 school year as a way for the campus’s COVID-19 protocols to adapt to the constantly changing pandemic and its effects on our community. The…
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Jewell Alum represents U.S. at UN General Assembly
This past week, President Joe Biden announced his list of United States’ representatives attending the United Nations General Assembly. Among the list of representatives was Tom Carnahan, who graduated from William Jewell College in 2005 with a degree in International Relations. After completing his undergraduate degree, Carnahan attended the University…
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Jewell abolishes mask mandate amid changing guidelines
With the fifth week of classes starting at William Jewell College, most students, faculty and staff have become acquainted with emails from Daniel Holt, Jewell’s associate vice president for Institutional Strategy, regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and the College’s response. Holt and the College’s Operational Planning Team regularly announce updates to…
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Slavery, Memory, and Justice Project uncovers details about Dr. William Jewell’s slaveholding past
Since August of 2020, a group of dedicated student researchers, under the guidance of Dr. Christopher Wilkins, associate professor and chair of the department of history at William Jewell College, has been researching the history of slavery in relationship to Jewell. The research group that the students and Wilkins created,…
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Jewell ranks 8th in Best College in the Midwest and 6th in Best Value school, according to U.S. News and World Report
U.S. News and World Report recently announced that William Jewell College was ranked the 8th Best College in the Midwest, as well as the 6th Best Value School. These rankings are determined by surveying academic quality and comparing it to the net cost of attendance. Jewell was also given the…
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“What Jewell means to me”
Twenty thousand hours: the amount of time, approximately, between orientation and where I am now, a little over halfway through my first semester of college. But farther away from now, almost a year ago in December of 2018, I can see myself sitting on a plane and looking out through…
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