For several years, the faculty, students and leadership of Millikin have nurtured a dream to create a much-needed, new Center for the nationally recognized School of Theatre and Dance. The time to dream is over.
The Millikin University softball team opened its new home, the Workman Family Softball Field, in impressive fashion by sweeping MacMurray College in a doubleheader on March 26 in Decatur, Ill., in front of a standing-room only crowd.
Millikin University Director of Athletics Dr. Craig White announced the hiring of Mark Scherer as the new Big Blue Head Men's Basketball Coach on Wednesday, March 22.
The Community for Accredited Online Schools, a leading resource provider for higher education information, has named Millikin University one of the Best Performing Arts Schools for 2017. The site also honored Millikin University's Registered Nursing (RN) Program as one of the Top 50 in the nation for 2017.
Housed on the fifth and sixth floors of the Leighty-Tabor Science Center on Millikin University's campus, the Requarth Observatory was built in 2000 and is the largest publicly available telescope in Illinois. All three 300 lb. support sections that hold the 20" (.5 meter) telescope were carried up six flights of stairs by hand.
The Xi Sigma chapter of Delta Mu Delta (DMD) International Honor Society in Business was installed at Millikin University during a ceremony held on Feb. 23 in Lower Richards Treat University Center on Millikin's campus.
In the midst of an increasingly diverse array of perspectives, civic discourse helps demonstrate our shared responsibility to one another, our commitment to our systems and our willingness to choose to elevate the conversation.
In recognition of Women's History Month, Millikin University will host several events throughout the month of March that cover a number of topics and issues.