Kalamazoo College

1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49006-3295 -  View Map

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• For 50 years, Kalamazoo College has offered a nationally-recognized curriculum called the Kalamazoo Plan (often nicknamed the "K" Plan), an undergraduate experience of rigorous liberal arts scholarship and opportunities for experiential education in both domestic and international settings.
• A liberal arts education at Kalamazoo College ideally comprises all components of the Kalamazoo Plan: on-campus coursework, Career Development experiences, Study Abroad, and the Senior Individualized Project. Students progress through this education within a developmental framework of Foundations, Explorations, and Connections. Foundations refer to skills upon which further intellectual and personal development depends. Explorations broaden and deepen knowledge and understanding, whether through course work or off-campus experiences. And Connections mean discovering ways in which knowledge, skills, and ideas from one course or discipline inform those from another, as well as ways in which the interplay of academic study and off-campus experience provides fresh insight and deepened comprehension of one’s self and the world. Through this guiding framework, Kalamazoo College seeks to cultivate among its students intellectual and personal growth in attributes consistent with the College’s overall mission.
• Kalamazoo College offers an excellent learning environment. Its hilltop campus covers nearly 60 acres. At the heart of the campus is the quadrangle (fondly known as the Quad), bordered by academic and administrative buildings, the student center, and Stetson Chapel. Beyond the Quad are the fine arts facilities, including theatres and recital halls, the nationally recognized Dow Science Center, classrooms, offices, living/learning houses and residence halls, an athletic center, a racquet center, tennis courts, a swimming pool, and playing fields.
• Profile last updated: 04/22/2008.

In the News:

• Community Garden feeding those in need (Midland Daily News)
  posted on July 25, 2011 at 03:55:30 pm
  The second season of the Midland Community Garden project is producing a bountiful harvest of produce but leaders of the effort are looking for additional volunteers to help the cause. Rebecca Cummins-Lanter, a Kalamazoo College junior-to-be with aspirations to become a community organizer, says, “We have fewer volunteers (about 10) this year than last, which is unfortunate, but we’re gardening ...
• Nelda Balch was a complete professional (letter) (The Kalamazoo Gazette)
  posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:37:04 am
  Like everyone who knew Nelda Balch at all well, I was greatly saddened to hear of her recent death. She and I came to Kalamazoo College at the same time, in 1954, and I was almost immediately aware that here was the complete professional, perhaps the best example of that vanishing breed with whom I had the privilege of working with in almost a half-century in the academy.
• Warren Wave players to continue softball careers at collegiate level (Lake County Journal)
  posted on June 30, 2011 at 06:46:57 pm
  GURNEE – All seven of the seniors on the 2010-11 Warren Wave 18U team will play for college softball teams this fall. Team members include: • Abby Anderson, graduate of Warren Township High School, who will play at Kalamazoo College; • Jennifer Lotz, graduate of Zion-Benton High School, who will play at Graceland University; • Jasmine Rivers, graduate of Lakes Community High School, who will ...
• Michael Tanoff, Kalamazoo College assistant professor, named new head of the Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center (The Kalamazoo Gazette)
  posted on June 27, 2011 at 10:36:55 pm
  Michael Tanoff, an assistant professor of physics at Kalamazoo College and a former researcher at the Kellogg Co. and Yale, has been named the new head of the Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center, a prestigious countywide magnet school.
• Kalamazoo College names 2011 graduates (The Kalamazoo Gazette)
  posted on June 25, 2011 at 12:06:43 pm
  A list of the 2011 graduates from Kalamazoo College.

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