Wilmington College named Earlham School of Religion graduate Noah Kellum as its next campus minister following a national search. He will succeed Nancy McCormick, who retired in June after serving the campus community for 10 years in that capacity.

Wilmington College is enjoying a period of increasing enrollment, record student retention, the implementation of new programs and a renewed spirit of enthusiasm and optimism — proof of its enduring relevance in the landscape of higher education. As such, the College announces its largest fundraising campaign ever, an ambitious endeavor designed to enhance the student experience by bolstering the endowment, empowering people, elevating programs and evolving places.

The transformation of the former BrightFarms facility into the Wilmington College AgriScience Complex received significant support in Ohio’s newly approved capital budget. Gov. Mike DeWine signed House Bill 2 earlier this month, which includes $650,000 earmarked for Wilmington College under the area designated for improving education infrastructure across Ohio.

Wilmington College announces the Dean’s List for the 2026 Spring Semester.

Wilmington College/Community Summer Theatre will present the musical, “Xanadu,” with four performances on July 16, 17 and 18, at 7:30 p.m., and July 19, at 2 30 p.m., in Hugh G. Heiland Theatre in WC’s Boyd Cultural Arts Center.

The Strategic Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE) recognizes the importance of acknowledging the outstanding faculty and staff at its member institutions. Wilmington College’s honorees for the 2025-26 academic year are Nancy McCormick, Campus Impact Award; Sonja Wilkin, Staff Excellence Award; and Steve Cukovecki, Faculty Excellence Award.

Brian Snowden pays heed to the legend of Grandma Moses, who took up artistic painting later in life. Upon his retirement as a business professor at Wilmington College in 2022, he decided to explore something new. Impressed with abstract art, he decided to give it a try.

Wilmington College students entering its STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields of data science, math education, agronomy and health science stand to benefit greatly from a $150,000 Choose Ohio First grant awarded by the Ohio Department of Higher Education. The grants, for students entering the College in fall 2027, are designed to grow enrollment in these STEM fields over four years.

One in four older adults experiences a fall each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Wilmington College’s Erin Bales will facilitate Stepping On, a free program designed to help senior citizens reduce the risk of injury from falls, on May 28, from 9 to 11 a.m., at the Aging Up Community Center, 717 N. Nelson St., in Wilmington.

Wilmington College President Corey Cockerill looks back to Christmas in 2011 when her sister, Erin Balbier, gave her a domino-shaped object, colorfully hand-painted with a cartoonish robot. That was her first bot — short for robot. Specifically, it was a Bilingual YesBot. Cockerill quickly became intrigued with bots, not just the whimsical figures on the JoyBots, LoveBots, GratitudeBots and PeaceBots, but their intrinsic messages centered on connection, delight and creative courage as represented by BotJoy, the global art movement ushered in by Gary Hirsch, WC’s 2026 Commencement speaker.

Gary Hirsch told the Class of 2026 to become improvisers, since uncertainty in life is inevitable. He offered some sage advice as a career improviser on navigating uncertainty with intention and grace. An artist, author and creative leader, Hirsch presented an interactive keynote address at Saturday, May 9’s Wilmington College’s 150th Commencement titled “Radical Collaboration with the World Around You.”

Wilmington College’s realignment of its senior leadership structure features J. Wynn Alexander adding provost to his title of vice president for academic affairs. President Corey Cockerill said his new duties began on May 1.

Representatives from The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine met with Wilmington College officials on Wednesday, April 29 to solidify a partnership designed to strengthen the recruitment of students pursuing careers in large animal veterinary medicine.

Wilmington College will renew the time-honored tradition of Commencement on May 9, as the institution conducts its 150th graduation ceremony. Much has changed over the last century and a half, but Commencement’s core purpose remains: to celebrate student achievement and their DubC experience with the conferring of degrees.

Wilmington College is presenting its 15th annual Student and Faculty Research Forum on Saturday morning (April 25), from 9:30 to 11 a.m., in the McCoy Room of Kelly Center.