March 14, 2024 –
Author, human-rights activist, and survivor of the Cambodian genocide, Loung Ung
Author, human-rights activist, and survivor of the Cambodian genocide, Loung Ung is the featured speaker for Keene State College’s 2024 Genocide Awareness Lecture on April 3.
The lecture is the final event in the Cohen Center for Holocaust and...
February 29, 2024 – Combination of different knowledge bases serving grad well
With a presidential election cycle about to kick into a higher gear, graduate Allison Bedell’s role as vice president for Canvass America, a voter canvassing organization based in Washington, D.C., is sure to intensify.
Allie, a 2014 Keene State graduate, wouldn’t want...
Garrett Beltis ’13 is a senior producer at Nickelodeon Digital Franchise Studios in New York City. He describes himself as restless and imaginative, and not always within reason, and he calls his Keene State student experience “life-changing.”
His degree in visual media was an independent major, a combination of graphic...
February 29, 2024 – Can You Feel It? These Fans And Players Can!
Spaulding Gymnasium is a revved-up place on game day: music, dancers, student performers, a couch for a lucky fan or two, popcorn, and lots of chants, stomps, ovations and top-notch, high-octane collegiate basketball.
For Vitheavy Barton ’24, going to college was less a leap of faith than a well-timed decision. Vitheavy took two gap years before enrolling at Keene State. It was the right path for her.
It has been a foundation-building and growth-filled experience, the Littleton, New Hampshire native says of her...
Editor’s Note : Keene State’s legacy Educator Preparation Program has a 114-year history of readying skilled, passionate students to educate future generations in the classroom. Meet some of the graduates, many of whom have gone on to lead their classrooms locally and throughout New Hampshire creating a homegrown workforce pipeline...
During the 2023-2024 academic year, the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Cohen Center) at Keene State College is marking a major milestone: its 40th anniversary. In 1983, the Holocaust Resource Center began as a collection of books and resources brought together by founder Dr. Charles Hildebrandt, who coined...
The Keene State College Redfern Arts Center and the college’s Music Department have scheduled a one-day Diversity in Classical Music Symposium on Friday, March 8, which is International Women’s Day.
The symposium – a day of lecture recitals, master classes, and seminars followed by an evening concert – focuses on...
Joseph Meloni ’18 is a firm believer that “If you love your job, you’ll never work a day in your life.”
So, as the head strength coach for the USA National Team Development Program (NTDP), the premier junior hockey destination in the world, it is safe to say that for...
February 8, 2024 – Coveted Status Called A Boon For College, Greater Community
In the minds of many involved with the yearslong project, it is a moment to open the windows and shout: Keene State College has achieved the designation of All-Steinway School, a distinction that sets its music program apart from all others...
The transformation was quick — surprisingly quick — and exciting.
Especially if you are a member of Keene State’s esports team, which launched its inaugural season on Monday, Feb. 5. The Owls’ starting three-person Rocket League squad – Alex Nimiroski, Eric Carlo and Keegan Wilder – will forever be the...
When opportunity knocks, Kaitlin Horner ‘24 has decided that she will listen. And given the chance, she will talk.
A future classroom teacher, Kaitlin is eager to make her mark. She understands that all the trappings of teaching — the new and the old, the simple and the challenging —...
Congratulations to Keene State students who made the Fall 2023 Dean’s List! To qualify for the Dean’s List, degree-seeking undergraduate students complete a minimum of 12 credits and earned at least a 3.5 grade point average.
If a student or family member has any questions about the list, please contact...
Keene State College is accepting nominations for its 2024 President’s Outstanding Women of New Hampshire awards.
This annual recognition in honor of Women’s History Month celebrates women who have made outstanding contributions to their communities. This year’s award theme is Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Women who...
James Slipp ’25 describes his academic journey as a music performance major as having “diversified and expanded.”
He doesn’t just perform vocal music — he is a pianist, and in Concert Band, he is a euphonium player. This semester, as part of a composition class, his first performance premiere of...
Liz Winsor ’24 toured five campuses when she was choosing a college. She wasted little time picking Keene State, for the vibe she felt immediately: A sense of community, tight-knit relationships, and a beautiful campus where “I just knew it would be hard to be seen as a stranger.”
Embracing a mission of providing accessible, high-quality, and affordable higher education opportunities for Granite Staters, the University System of New Hampshire (USNH) Board of Trustees has voted to not increase undergraduate tuition for New Hampshire students, including those attending Keene State College, for the 2024-2025 academic year.
November 14, 2023 –
Transfer student Maggie St. John found community at Keene State, an academic path, and has garnered national attention on the cross-country running course. (Photo by Stephanie Olah)
Today, more than ever perhaps, Maggie St. John ’24 knows that time and place matter.
Keene State College has named a three-person Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Faculty Fellow Team to assist colleagues and to help create and sustain a campus culture grounded in these principles and practices.
Announcement of the team and its charge was made recently by Dottie Morris - Associate Vice President...
Call it a haul, because that is just what it was as Keene State College student journalists returned from a week of media sessions in Atlanta, Georgia, covering all aspects of journalism with 13 national reporting and writing awards.
The gathering hosted by at the College Media Association (CMA) and...
There is a lot that is distinctive about a liberal arts education, and for Keene State students, the freedom to explore, to choose their adventures, to build the foundation of their future with bricks of their choosing…that is top-of-the-list stuff.
As we like to tell our students — undergraduates and...
The Keene State College Music Department is proud to announce that the 2023-24 recipient of the KSC Music Department Distinguished Alumni Award is Professor Kirk Sanger ’97 of the College’s Nursing Department.
An associate professor of nursing at Keene State and lecturer in music at Greenfield Community College, Professor Sanger...
Two Keene State alums are sharing office space and design talents at an architectural firm’s East Rhode Island office.
Rowse Architects announced the recent hiring of Craig Bucci ’23 as an architectural designer. Craig will work alongside another Keene State alum, Andrew McKeen ’08, who has the same role at...
High school students from New Hampshire and Connecticut traveled to Keene recently to participate in the 12th annual Cantate! High School Choral Festival, held at Keene State College’s Redfern Arts Center Alumni Recital Hall.
Students performed on stage or participated remotely.
The festival began with a large-group warmup led by...