"I needed a book for my State & Local Politics class, If I’m going to get a book that is just right for state and local politics for my class, maybe I ought to just do it myself.”
Friday, Minskoff and wife Royanne formalized an even more meaningful way to support journalism students at The College of Idaho by signing an agreement to endow the Alan and Royanne Minskoff Scholarship, a multi-year commitment to fund $300,000 to journalism students at The College of Idaho.
The College of Idaho’s award-winning alumni magazine Quest has released its Fall/Winter issue and it is available and free to read on the College’s website.
With her mother and aunt in the audience, College of Idaho English Professor and 1983 alumna Diane Raptosh accepted the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts on Nov. 8 in Boise’s Capitol Rotunda, receiving an engraved silver medallion from Idaho Governor and fellow C of I alumnus C. L. “Butch” Otter.
College of Idaho English Professor Diane Raptosh has received numerous accolades across her prestigious career in the literary arts, including a stint as Idaho’s Writer-in-Residence, Boise’s first Poet Laureate, and a longlist nominee for the 2013 National Book Award for “American Amnesiac,” one of her five collections of published poetry.
The College of Idaho’s Whittenberger Planetarium will welcome back its “starry-telling” bard Jim Cogan for its next public show, “Storytelling in the Planetarium,” which will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 10.
For their first major exhibition together since the birth of their son Edwin, Eric Mullis and Kelly Cox are combining their experiences with parenthood along with their experiences with mass media and the outside world.
As Doug Brigham and Jim Everett gave their first remarks as the newly inaugurated 14th co-presidents of The College of Idaho, both men admitted they were blessed with fortune – the fortune of positive support systems and mentors, and the richness of experiences that followed.
Julia Phelps was used to her group straying from the beaten path – the Scottish Highlands are known for their rugged, challenging mountains, after all. But as she and the other eight College of Idaho study abroad students began to climb the steepest part of Na Gruagaichean, she admitted feeling a bit anxious.
The College of Idaho sends its condolences to the friends and family of Professor Emeritus Wallace “Wally” G. Lonergan, a C of I graduate and later longtime member of the C of I’s business faculty who passed away in Caldwell, Idaho from natural causes on Monday, Aug. 27, 2018 at the age of 90.