Ra'Shawn Jones doesn’t give up when it gets hard. He never has. Not when he grew up rarely seeing his father. Not when his family didn’t know where their next meal was going to come from. Not when his family didn’t know where they were going to live. And no matter how fast this runner gets, he will never leave the people he loves behind.
Every year, a senior is chosen who best promotes the "true spirit and purpse of Wabash College." What does that look like? Two words: Cody Cochran.
Seniors Ephrem Chedid and Jared Cottingham urged classmates to use the lessons learned over the last four years to take chances and invest in others in handling the challenges that await during the 179th Commencement Sunday.
Luke Doughty and Cody Cochran were honored with the top awards for the Class of 2018 during the Deans' Breakfast Saturday.
Joey Dierdorf ’18, Marcus Hoekstra ’18, Taylor King ’18, and Aren Peterson ’16 have accepted postgraduate fellowships to serve as English Teaching Assistants (ETA) in Austria, Germany and Spain.
Nathan Muha ’18 is a double major in music, with a composition focus, and theater, with a playwriting focus. Instead of trying to complete two different senior thesis requirements, Muha decided to put everything he’d learned into one big project. He wrote an opera.
Brian Parks was a 2018 Arthur Ashe, Jr. Sports Scholar selection by Diverse Issues in High Education magazine.
The Global Health Initiative announced its most recent cohort of Fellows. GHI Fellows are students who have shown intensive involvement and engagement with Wabash GHI programming and who seek continued involvement in curricular and co-curricular opportunities addressing population health.
Matt Tanney, a former two-sport athlete, honors graduate, attorney, and seasoned athletic administrator, has been named Director of Athletics and Campus Wellness at Wabash College.
2010. The first iPad was released that year. So was the first 3D-printed car. And Bruno Mars loved us just the way we are. That’s also the year Will Reifeis ’18 and Patrick McAuley ’19, the Little Giants’ No. 1 doubles team, began playing tennis together.
Students were honored for the achievements in the classroom and around campus at the 2018 Awards Chapel.
Over the last few weeks, students in the Enduring Questions colloquium have visited the mosque at the Islamic Society of North America in Plainfield, IN, as well as the Hindu Temple of Central Indiana on Indianapolis’ east side. The impacts proved lasting.
An $800,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aims to improve retention and graduation rates for all students with an emphasis on populations that have been historically disadvantaged in higher education. Building on the successful programs developed in a prior Mellon Foundation grant that established the Wabash Liberal Arts Immersion Program (WLAIP), "Developing Student Success Leaders” focuses on growing student and faculty leaders, and programs to support them.
The Wabash junior is one of students 12 nationally to be honored with scholarship that covers the full cost of attendance for students who have overcome barriers and have successfully started their collegiate careers.
Austin Ellingwood '18 decided to take a job in a field where he possesses only some of the skills necessary to be successful. The last time he made that type of big decision was his sophomore year, and it's still paying off.
The best way for you to learn about Wabash is to visit campus and meet our students — your future classmates and friends.
Get ready for the start of classes in August with our New Student Road Map!
Take a digital tour of campus, see what goes on inside our buildings, and learn about some of the unique features of a Wabash Liberal Arts Education.
Wabash educates men to think critically, act responsibly, lead effectively, and live humanely.
Think for yourself — that's the Wabash way. You will learn how to think anywhere, anytime, about anything. We're committed to the virtues of a broad academic experience, so you will take language, literature, art, science, history, philosophy, mathematics, the works. It starts with one of our 24 majors or pre-professional programs.
Learn About a Wabash EducationWabash's faculty is nationally recognized for excellence and accessibility. And in class, professors will expect you to know your stuff. They won't let you slack off or fail. Your professors will become your mentors and biggest supporters. You will emerge from Wabash with the intellectual groundwork to succeed in any career.
Meet Our FacultyWabash boasts state-of-the-art facilities and equipment in Hays Science Hall — instruments usually reserved for grad students. Our Allen Athletics and Recreation Center is ranked among the nation's finest at any level, and the Schroeder Center for Career Development is ranked in the top 10. Add to that a $24 million investment in student housing.
See Our CampusWhat kind of man leads his own research expedition, plays the president, lives to learn, and knows every minute counts? A Wabash Man!
A Wabash liberal arts education prepares students for any careers they choose. The Liberal Arts Plus initiatives provide additional skills and allow Wabash men to use their knowledge to solve real world problems.
Learn More About Liberal Arts PlusWabash College asks you the most important question you will ever be asked: What kind of man do you want to be? We then make an institutional commitment to help every Wabash student develop his own answer to this life-changing question by blending an intimate liberal arts education with our culture that emphasizes personal responsibility, resilience, and reflection.
What kind of man starts his own company at 23... and retires at 42? The kind who takes himself seriously — a Wabash man. Here, there are 900 men willing to stay up late, get up early, and do whatever it takes to turn ideas into realities. After Wabash, our men join a global network of more than 13,000 seriously successful alumni who can open all sorts of doors. Among them are a Nobel-nominated AIDS researcher, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a Mayo Clinic oncologist, an NFL record-holder, a Sundance award-winning film maker, a federal judge, and a Vice President of the United States. What kind of man do you want to be?
Wabash men love to compete — in their living units, classrooms, and especially on the playing field. Wabash won the first intercollegiate baseball, football, and basketball games ever played in Indiana, and we've been living up to our motto — Wabash Always Fights! — ever since. In the last seven years, Wabash men have won eight individual national championships, claimed 16 conference titles, and produced over 500 all-conference performances. And our student-athletes really are students — nine Little Giants have been named Academic All-Americans since 2011.
Wabash College ranked 50th nationally among 1,223 schools nationally in Return on Investment by PayScale.com.
Part of the Wabash ethos is the education of the model man, a philosophy distilled into a single code: 'The student is expected to conduct himself at all times, both on and off the campus, as a gentleman and responsible citizen.' Nuff said... The code is a very real part of student life, from academics to the athletic fields.
Wabash students are probably ten times smarter and better prepared for post-graduate life than students at other schools.
This is a clan with elan. Not a single student I talked to would be anywhere else. Wabash was their first choice, and one reason was they'd been told, 'It won't be easy, but it will be worth it.'
