Cottey News

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) notified Cottey College that the College would receive one of the $15,000 stipends from the National Football League (NFL) for starting Women’s Flag Football on its campus this fall. The stipend is intended...

The Cottey College Comets athletic staff is excited to announce the hiring of Ms. Rose Howell as the head coach for Cottey’s cross country and track program. She replaces Tony Skiles who left at the end of the year. Howell comes to Cottey with extensive knowledge in...

Cottey Comets Esports Coach Bovey Zhang announced the College had signed its second athlete to the new program, Serenity Mary Ellen Torkelson of Malvern, Iowa. Torkelson has been playing video games for as long as she can remember. She has experience with the Halo...

Cottey College President Dr. Jann Weitzel announced the College would add women’s flag football to its competitive athletic programs this coming year. Cottey College will be the first women’s college in the country and the first college in the State of Missouri to add...

Cottey College is pleased to announce the promotion of T.J. Tubbs to vice president of administration and finance. He is currently the associate vice president for facilities and safety. Tubbs will assume his new position on June 1. “We are so pleased to have TJ as...

Cottey College has announced plans to return to in-person classes for the fall 2020 semester. “We know that some things will be out of our control and situations might change, but we are currently planning and directing all our efforts to bringing everyone safely back...

Cottey College esports coach Bovey Zhang announced that the College signed its first student athlete in the new esports program. Alexie Ward of Creston, Iowa, signed her letter of intent last week to join the Comets. “Gaming is a big passion in my life,” said Ward. “I...

Cottey College was again selected as a 2020 Best Value School by the higher education experts at University Research & Review. This is the ninth year for the Best Value School Awards. These exclusive awards are only granted to reasonably priced institutions whose...

Cottey College is pleased to announce the purchase of 2.93 acres of property contiguous to campus. The property is located immediately west of campus between Tower Street and Woods Supermarket. The owner of the property approached the College and presented the...

In response to SAT and ACT testing sites closing across the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Cottey College will waive the SAT/ACT requirement for fall 2020 admission consideration. The College will now be test-optional, meaning students may choose to submit test...

Cottey College student Rose Sheila Atukunda has been selected for the Harvard Stem Cell Institute Internship Program (HIP). Over 600 candidates submitted applications for this year's program and Atukunda’s was one of only 20 that met or exceeded the rigorous review...

Campus Compact, a Boston-based non-profit organization working to advance the public purposes of higher education, has announced the 290 students who will make up the organization’s 2020-2021 cohort of Newman Civic Fellows. The 2020 cohort—the largest group of Newman...

The Cottey College Department of Music is pleased to host a recital titled Silver and Wood: Baroque Performance Practice on Modern and Period Instruments. The recital will be Friday, March 6, at 6:30 p.m. in the Missouri Recital Hall. The trio, composed of flautists...

Sarah Van Horn and Katie Brown represented Cottey College during the 33rd Annual Missouri Governor’s Student Leadership Forum on Faith and Values held February 14-16, 2020, in Jefferson City, Missouri. They were two of 98 collegiate students nominated to attend. The...

Cottey College is pleased to announce the hiring of Mr. Bovey Zhang as the College’s first esports coach. Zhang will begin his duties with the College in March. “We’re very pleased to have someone of Bovey’s caliber as our first esports coach,” said Landon Adams, vice...

The Cottey College Department of Music will host an Instrumental Music Concert at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3, in the Auditorium of the Haidee and Allen Wild Center for the Arts. The performance is free and no tickets are required. The concert will feature the...

The Cottey College Department of Theatre is hosting a pair of Holocaust-focused events. The first event is a free lecture on Thursday, February 20, at 7 p.m. by Dr. Shelly Cline. The second event is the department’s play From Silence by Anne Marilyn Lucas, which will...

Dr. Volha Charnysh, Cottey Class of 2007, and an assistant professor of political science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak on becoming a global citizen at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, January 28, in the Missouri Recital Hall. Dr. Charnysh’s book project,...

Comedian D.J. Demers will perform on Thursday, January 23, at 8 p.m. in Raney Dining Room on the Cottey College campus. D.J. Demers is an award-winning stand-up comedian who appeared on season 11 of NBC’s America’s Got Talent. He performed stand-up on Conan twice and...

Cottey College will observe the 2020 MLK Day of Service beginning at 1 p.m. on Monday, January 20, with a kick-off event for students, faculty, and staff in the Cottey Chapel. Students will share inspirational thoughts about service to others. Students will spend the...