Archive for 2008
Westmont in Top Tier of U.S. News Rankings
August 22nd, 2008 | Press Releases
Westmont is in the top tier among the nation’s best liberal arts colleges according to U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges, 2009 Edition.” Of the nation’s 265 liberal arts colleges, Westmont ranked in a four-way tie at 111. This is the fourth straight year the college has ranked in the top tier.
Only seven [...]
Local Westmont Grad To Head Alumni Office
August 21st, 2008 | Press Releases
Teri Bradford Rouse, executive director of the Channel Islands YMCA Youth and Family Services branch, will become Westmont’s senior director of alumni and parent relations. Rouse graduated from Westmont in 1977, earned her master’s degree from USC then worked at Westmont as a resident director, director of residence life and associate dean of students from [...]
Former Westmont President, El Montecito Pastor Dies
July 30th, 2008 | Press Releases, Theater
Lyle C. Hillegas went to be with his Lord and Savior July 29, 2008. He served as the fifth president of Westmont from 1972 to 1975. At 37, he was the youngest person ever appointed to the position and the only one to come directly from the ranks of the faculty. During his tenure, he [...]
Montecito Music Festival Kicks Off at Westmont
July 22nd, 2008 | Press Releases
The first-ever Montecito Summer Music Festival is underway at Westmont College. More than a hundred chamber music students, ranging in age from 10 to 36, arrived on the Westmont campus Monday with performances running through Friday, Aug 1.
“The Festival will bring world- class musicians together with advanced students of classical piano and strings for two [...]
Westmont Highlighted In National Research Video
July 18th, 2008 | Press Releases
Westmont is prominently featured in a video produced by the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory of Michigan State University. The video describes the Westmont College Cosmic Muon Detector Array and undergraduate research such as viewing the cosmic muon flux mapping over a wide range of the sky.
“Here our interest is finding the kind of fluctuations and [...]