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Posted on July 9, 2024

Gordon College Named Among Best Value Colleges for 2024 by The Princeton Review

For the second year in a row, Gordon College has been named one of the 209 “Best Value Colleges” by The Princeton Review®.

Posted on May 13, 2024

Gordon Celebrates 132nd Commencement

Gordon College honored the Class of 2024, conferring degrees on 292 undergraduate students and 119 graduate students, including the inaugural graduate cohort for the Master of Public Health.

Posted on May 3, 2024

Gordon History Made: Dr. Oleksiy Svitelskiy Receives $400K in Fourth NSF Grant Milestone

Oleksiy Svitelskiy secured his fourth NSF grant of 400k, the largest NSF grant Gordon has ever received. The grant is a continuation of a collaboration with the Ekinci Group at Boston University (BU), an R1 institution. Dr. Kristen Siaw will be his co-primary investigator on the grant.

Three Clarendon Scholars at anniversary event

Posted on April 22, 2024

Clarendon Scholars Program Receives $1.49 Million Endowment Gift

This gift, given by a Gordon alum, is one of the largest to Gordon this year and the largest to the Clarendon program in the College’s history. It undergirds the College’s renewed commitment to the program, which is specifically designed to equip students from urban areas to lead in their communities.

Posted on March 1, 2024

Inspiring Words: Andre Dubus III Brings a Passion for Storytelling to Gordon

Famous writer Andre Dubus III, author of soon-to-be 10 books—one of which was adapted into a movie—and a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell visited Gordon’s campus on February 27 as part of this year’s Princemere Writers Series.

Posted on February 28, 2024

Gordon Establishes School of Business, Names Dean Steven Nelson and Launches Four New Majors for High-Demand Fields 

Gordon’s School of Business equips future business professionals and leaders to effect positive social change through business.

Announcing the Adams School of Music and the Arts at Gordon College

Posted on February 26, 2024

Gordon Establishes the Adams School of Music and the Arts

The Adams School, led by Dr. Sarita Kwok, brings together the best of Gordon’s creative and performing arts programs into a distinct, collaborative entity.

Welcome Jason Linders, Director of Athletics

Posted on February 16, 2024

Fighting Scots Name Jason Linders as New Director of Athletics

Gordon College announces Jason Linders as the new director of athletics for the Fighting Scots. Linders comes to Gordon with nearly 20 years of experience in sport management at organizations including Chicago State University, Grand Canyon University, the University of South Florida and the University of Nevada.

Posted on February 5, 2024

Gordon College Announces Naming of Peter Herschend School of Education, Additional Programs to Accelerate Excellence in Teaching Reading

“For Gordon faculty, literacy is an issue of social responsibility and justice,” Ballock says. “This is why Gordon faculty are committed to the science of reading. We want all PK-12 students to develop into confident and skilled readers, and we know using evidence-based practices yields a benefit to all students.”

Posted on December 27, 2023

What's changing with the FAFSA, and what can you do now to be ready?

The FAFSA Simplification Act is a significant overhaul of the processes and systems used to award federal student aid starting with the 2024–25 award year. Amending outdated and cumbersome processes, the FAFSA changes are worth the wait.

Posted on December 8, 2023

Graduate Programs Announce New Online Certificates in Public Health and Education

Gordon’s Graduate Public Health program has added certificates in Leadership and Health Management, Community Health and Epidemiology. The Graduate School of Education has added a certificate in the Science of Reading.

Posted on November 7, 2023

Georgetown’s Steven Harris Explores Christian Fugitivity at Center for Faith and Inquiry Event

In the second Center for Faith and Inquiry lecture of the academic year, Steven Harris, a faith-based public policy expert and scholar of American religious history and African American studies, explored what we can learn from contradictions in American Christian history and the formation of what has been termed "the black church."