Cottey News

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...

Cottey College will host a screening of the documentary The S Word on Tuesday, January 21, at 7 p.m. in the Auditorium of the Haidee and Allen Wild Center for the Arts. The showing is free and no tickets are required. A suicide attempt survivor is on a mission to find...

Morgan Ford Willingham from Emporia, Kansas, is displaying an art exhibit titled “The Beauty Mask” in the P.E.O. Foundation Art Gallery on the Cottey College campus. This on-going series explores how natural beauty is masked by cosmetics that women use every day and...

Cottey College received a generous donation from a P.E.O. group to add a stock trading lab to the campus academic spaces. Cottey will become the first women’s college to have a stock trading lab on its campus. The stock trading room will be ready for use in fall 2020....

The Cottey College Department of Music will host an instrumental music concert on Sunday, December 8, at 3 p.m., in the Auditorium of the Haidee and Allen Wild Center for the Arts. The performance is free and no tickets are required. The Cottey College Wind Ensemble,...

The Cottey College Department of Music invites the public to student music recitals on Sunday, November 24, and Monday, November 25. The Sunday recital begins at 3 p.m. and Monday’s recital begins at 7 p.m. Both recitals take place in the Missouri Recital Hall; they...

The Cottey College Department of Dance will present its fall concert on Friday-Sunday, November 22-24. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. The performances will be held in the Auditorium of the Haidee and Allen Wild...

Students in the Organizational Leadership major at Cottey College invite the public to a Leadership Expo and REAL Talk event on Wednesday, November 13, at 6 p.m. in the Missouri Recital Hall. The event is free and no tickets are required. The Leadership Expo will...

The Cottey College Department of Music is pleased to present three great events the weekend of November 15-17. Mark your calendars for the following concerts: Cottey College Chamber Singers, Friday, November 15, 7:30 p.m. Violet and the Undercurrents, Saturday,...

Comedian Subhah Agarwal will take the stage on Thursday, November 14, at 8 p.m. in Raney Dining Room. Subhah Agarwal (pronounced SOOB-ah Ah-GARwall), or as her teachers called her “I’m sorry I can’t say this name but talk to me after class,” is an Indian-American from...