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Westmont has received a $457,745 grant to expand its efforts to integrate intellectual, moral, and spiritual formation directly into classroom instruction and campus culture. Administered through the Educating Character Initiative, a project of the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University, which aims to catalyze a national movement placing virtue and character at […]
Westmont honored a number of employees for their outstanding contributions at the Faculty and Staff Appreciation Brunch, an annual ceremony that this year recognizes individual work anniversaries and accomplishments on May 14 in Murchison Gym. President Gayle D. Beebe and members of the college’s executive team selected the recipients from a peer-nominated pool. An endowment […]
Twenty-two members of the seventh cohort of the Westmont Downtown | Grotenhuis Nursing program were pinned at a special ceremony to honor their accomplishments on May 7 at Montecito Covenant Church. The group included the college’s first nursing fast track graduate, who earned two bachelor’s degrees in just four and a half years. “I am […]
Led by bagpipes under a blanket of fog, more than 300 Westmont graduates made their Last March from Kerrwood Hall to Thorrington Field, where they enthusiastically walked across the stage to get their diplomas at Commencement on May 9. Commencement Speaker Henrietta Fore, who has served and led numerous government agencies and nonprofit organizations, challenged […]
The Westmont Women’s Leadership Council, dedicated to educating, enriching and empowering women, held its annual luncheon with keynote speaker Anja Manuel, co-founder and principal of Rice, Hadley, Gates and Manuel, LLC, and an author, former diplomat, speaker and sought-after adviser to Fortune 50 and Silicon Valley CEOs. Several hundred supporters attended the event on April […]
The eighth annual Westmont Women’s Leadership Council Luncheon reached new heights with a goal of encouraging and empowering female students with scholarships and networking connections to help them thrive in their future careers. The event, which featured Henrietta Holsman Fore, a Santa Barbara native who served as executive director of UNICEF and USAID administrator, has […]
