Cottey News

The annual rite of fall begins as new students move to Cottey College and Nevada. First-year students begin arriving Friday, August 23, followed shortly thereafter by the arrival of returning students on Sunday, August 25. Citizens of Nevada and surrounding...

Cottey College, together with the City of Nevada and the Nevada/Vernon County Chamber of Commerce, will host the 2019 Community Picnic and Partner Fair on Saturday, August 24, from 6-8 p.m. at the Franklin P. Norman Community Center. Local businesses, civic...

The public is invited to learn about the proposed sales tax to benefit the hospital at an open meeting to be held at Cottey College on Friday, August 2. Ross Lawrence, a member of Citizens United to Strengthen our Hospital, will present information on the ballot issue...

Cottey College is pleased to announce the hiring of T.J. Tubbs as the director of physical plant and security. Tubbs replaces Neal Swarnes who retired last month. “We’re very pleased to have T.J.,” said Amy Ruetten, vice president for administration and finance. “We...

Cottey student Chido Shamuyarira was one of 12 students out of 400 applicants nationwide named to the 2019 Cohort of Zero Hunger Summer Interns by the Congressional Hunger Center. In June, Shamuyarira and other Zero Hunger Interns traveled to Washington, D.C. to...

Cottey College is pleased to announce the following students were named to the President’s List for the Spring 2019 semester. To be named to the President’s List, a student must have a grade point average of 3.75 or above and have completed 12 credit hours. Karlie...

Cottey College is pleased to announce the following students were named to the Dean’s List for the Spring 2019 semester. To be named to the Dean’s List, a student must have a grade point average between 3.50 and 3.74 and have completed 12 credit hours. Kasey Acton,...

Cottey College is pleased to announce the following graduates who earned degrees in 2019. The Commencement ceremony was held on Sunday, May 12, 2019. A video recording of the ceremony is available for viewing online at cottey.edu/commencement. Cottey College confers...

Cottey College is pleased to welcome David Heringer to the position of Vice President for Enrollment Management. Heringer comes from McMurry University in Abilene, Texas. He has a Master of Management from the University of Mary in North Dakota and a Bachelor of...

The Vernon County Historical Society (VCHS) is hosting “Conversations with Carnegie” on Sunday, July 14, at 2 p.m. in the Haidee and Allen Wild Center for the Arts on the Cottey College campus. This event is part of the VCHS summer program. The event is free and no...

Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri, ranks number two in the College Consensus 2019 list of Best Regional Colleges-Midwest. Cottey also ranks second in the College Consensus list of Best Colleges and Universities in Missouri; fourth in the nation among women’s...

Cottey College is pleased to announce Dr. Landon Adams as the new Vice President for Student Life, a role in which he leads a team of professionals who manage  functions related to students’ needs outside the classroom including residence life, counseling, athletics...

Cottey College is pleased to announce the addition of Madeline Culbertson as a new enrollment counselor. A graduate of Nevada, Missouri, High School, Culbertson recently completed a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from William Jewell College. While at William...

Cottey College’s first-year and transfer students will learn about a tragic period in the region’s history in this fall’s First Year Writing Seminar. Faculty selected Killers of  the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann as the common...

Cottey College is pleased to announce the addition of Margaret “Maggie” Shouse as a new enrollment counselor. An alumna of Cottey College, Shouse earned her Bachelor of Science in Social Psychology from Park University in Parkville, Missouri. Most recently she worked...

After 42 years of service to Cottey College, Neal Swarnes, director of the physical plant, will retire his position effective June 30, 2019. Swarnes joined Cottey in 1977 as a carpenter, holding positions of plant foreman and assistant physical plant superintendent...

Cottey College is preparing for Commencement and other related activities. As these important events draw closer, drivers on Austin are asked to take note of the increased pedestrian and visitor traffic and to drive safely. The public is invited to attend the...

A Cottey College student has received a fully funded graduate assistantship to study material science at Pittsburg State University. Tenzin Ingsel, of India, graduates from Cottey May 12 with a bachelor’s degree in biology and a minor in chemistry. She will be the...

Cottey instrumental music students will perform a concert on Saturday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the Auditorium of the Haidee and Allen Wild Center for the Arts. The concert is free and no tickets are required. This band concert will feature the Cottey Wind Ensemble,...

Cottey College is pleased to announce Kim Krause Haddow, Class of 1975, will be the honored speaker at this year’s Commencement on Sunday, May 12. Haddow is a respected women’s and men’s golf coach. She is the head coach at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in...