- The College recently announced that classes will begin a week earlier than originally planned. Moving that date, along with other changes detailed in the article, will allow on-campus instruction to end for the Fall semester before the Thanksgiving holiday in November. That will limit the amount of travel to and from campus between Thanksgiving and the usual end to the semester in December to minimize potential exposure for people to any further COVID-19 outbreaks. (Idaho Press)
- KIVI-TV and KTVB-TV also provided coverage on the College's plans for the Fall semester.
- The College opted not to hold an in-person Commencement ceremony this spring. Instead, a committee of students worked with the College to produce a "virtual" Commencement ceremony to honor the Class of 2020. (KIVI-TV)
- The virtual commencement story was picked up by Yahoo News.
- The College also produced a video to honor academic awards, which are usually celebrated in person in conjunction with Commencement.
- Students and the Marketing & Communications department spent the spring highlighting positive things that staff, students, faculty, and alumni were doing during the COVID-19 interruptions. The social media campaign made the local news. (KIVI-TV)
- The shift to online learning created new challenges for students that returned home when the campus closed in March, like Reannon Suzuki, who returned home to Hawaii.
- An incoming freshman from Lapwai was recognized for academic excellence. (KLEW-TV)
- Bix Firer, the College's Outdoor Program director, was named to the Open Space Clean Water advisory committee by Boise Mayor Lauren McLean. (Patch.com)
- Re-opening plans for The College of Idaho and its work with Caldwell company indieDwell on the construction of new, modular housing on campus are both mentioned in this recap of Idaho's economic activity. (Idaho at Work)
- Chad Hickox '93 has been named the president at Walla Walla Community College in Washington. He's been with the school since 2018, most recently as the provost. (Union-Bulletin)
- Hickox penned an op-ed piece about becoming the college's fifth president for the Union-Bulletin newspaper in Walla Walla.
- Taylor Bateman '11 has gone from a college athlete to helping local athletes achieve their dreams of becoming college student-athletes. (KTVB-TV)
- Beth Zborowski '02 continues to be a go-to source for media with questions about hospitals in Washington. This time, the topic is the disbursement of funds from the CARES Act. (Corvallis Advocate)
- Read one publication who says Bret Arsenault '87 is the most interesting man at Mircosoft. (Protocol)
- The devotion of Bryan Slinker '76 to Washington State University shines through. (WSU News)
- Ali Rabe '10 had to change campaign plans en route to winning the primary election race for a seat in the Idaho State Senate. (KTVB-TV)
- Rabe was also in the news in her role as Executive Director of the non-profit Jesse Tree, talking about COVID-19's impact on renting a home in Idaho. (KSBX Radio)
- Speaking of COVID-19, Dr. Darrell Carney '70 is working hard to help find a vaccine for the virus. (Galveston News)
- Kristine McDivitt Tompkins '72 has soared from the College to CEO of Patagonia, Inc., to well-known advocate for conservation. Here are two stories to read, one about making the world wild again and one about how the pandemic can make us more responsible travelers. (Ted.com / Afar.com)
- Galen Hanselman '70, a long-time, well-known back country aviator in Idaho, passed away from cancer complications. (Flying Magazine)
- A pair of alums, Kim Steins '08 and Geoff Marshall '07, are featured in this question-and-answer article about the pros and cons of getting married from a financial standpoint. (Vox.com)
- Montana Patton '13 was working as a nurse in Seattle when the city was hit with a COVID-19 outbreak. As that outbreak subsided, he decided to lend a hand across the country, where one of the countries biggest and most-publicized outbreaks occurred.
- Ivory Miles-Williams was asked about recent events - locally, nationally, and worldwide - and their impacts on him, his teammates, and the campus community. One of his messages was about the importance of communication: "If you never speak, you'll never be heard." (KTVB-TV)
- Long-time basketball coach and athletic director Marty Holly is still at the College and still making an impact. (Cascade Conference)
- The team he coached to a national championship in 1996 was recently featured by the Idaho Press.
- The COVID-19 pandemic is having an impact on the College's athletics. It's an impact that is likely to continue evolving throughout the summer and fall. (Idaho Statesman)
- Mattie Creager will be joining the women's basketball program and she said the standards and teaching of head coach Janis Beal are why. (Preston Citizen)
- Track/Cross-Country student-athlete Larissa Mauer is already a three-time All-American and subject of this feature by her home-community newspaper (Elko Daily)
- Simplot Stadium and Wolfe Field now have lights thanks to a partnership between the College, the city of Caldwell, and the family of Graye and Brenda Wolfe. (Coyote Athletics)