Press Releases

Academic Year 2022-2023

• Whittier College Partners with the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities
• Mellon Foundation Grant Supports Study of Brown Identities at Whittier College
• The Fletcher Jones Foundation Supports Quantitative Success Center at Whittier College
• Whittier College receives HHMI Inclusive Excellence Initiative Grant 
• Whittier College Makes Changes to Poet Athletics
• Whittier College Ranked Among the "Top Performers on Social Mobility"
• Whittier Welcomes New Students
• 2022 Endowed Chairs Announced
• UniHealth Peer Health Educators Announced
• WSCUC Reaffirms Whittier College's Accreditation

Academic Year 2021-2022

• President Oubrés' Giving Supports Innovation At Whittier
• Whittier College Celebrates Class Of 2022
• Student Commencement Speaker Announced
• Whittier College Announces New Film Major
• 2022 All-Sports Awards Night Celebrates Student-Athlete Achievement
• Whittier College Leading Innovation in Higher Ed
• Prof. Shannon Stanton Agbotse Awarded the 2022 Nerhood Teaching Award
• CABE Ceo Jan Gustafson-Corea Announced As Whittier College’s 2022 Commencement Speaker
• Board Of Trustees Announces President’s Contract Extended
• Professor Christina Scott Selected As Fulbright Scholar
• Whittier College Introduces Lux – A New Catalog Of Diverse Enrichment Course
• Whittier College Announces New Leadership Appointments
• Statement In Support Of Transgender Students, Staff, And Faculty At Whittier College
• New $600,000 Grant From Unihealth Foundation Will Promote Student Health And Wellness
• 2021 Poet Award Honorees Announced
• Whittier College Joins The IceCube Collaboration 
• Whittier College Wins Gold Seal in 2021 All In Campus Democracy Challenge 
• Whittier College Is Named 2021 HSI Leader By Fulbright Program
• Scott Grant Transforming Lives At Whittier College
• Whitter College Celebrates Classes Of 2020 And 2021
• Whittier College Welcomes New Students To Campus
   

Academic Year 2020-2021

• Whittier Grants Nearly $1m in Additional Student Aid
• Whittier College Receives Transformative Gift From Philanthropist Mackenzie Scott
• Whittier College to Participate in Racial Equity Leadership Alliance
• Whittier College Launches California Community College Advantage Program
• Whittier College Supporting Innovation
• Whittier College Ranked for Student and Community Impact
• Whittier College Waives Application Fee
• Whittier College Named a Top U.S. College
• Whittier College Releases Racial Justice and Equity Action Plan 
• Sustainable Coffee Orchard Gets Financial Boost From Arthur Vining Davis Foundations

Academic Year 2019-2020

• Whittier College Receives Carnegie Foundation's Community Engagement Classification
• Dr. Jacob Eisenbach Announced as 2020 Feinberg Lecturer
• The Fletcher Jones Foundation Supports STEM Studies at Whittier College
• Three New College Trustees Announced
• Annenberg Foundation Grant to Create Scholarships for Black Students
• 2019 Poet Awards Celebrate Exceptional Whittier College Alumni
• Whittier College Innovation Challenge Winners Announced
• Whittier Recognized as a Top College
• Falone Serna Appointed Vice President for Enrollment Management at Whittier College
• Whittier College Honored as a College of Distinction
• Whittier College Announces New Vice President and Dean of Students
• Whittier Featured in Princeton Review's Best 385 College Guide

Academic Year 2018-2019

• Grant Enhances Digital Technology in the Arts at Whittier 
• Cultural Graduation Ceremonies Celebrate Diverse Student Identities
• Los Angeles Business Leader Maria Salinas Announced as Whittier College 2019 Commencement Speaker
• Distinguished Chinese Artist Visits Whittier College for Opening of Art Installation
• TOBGLAD Hosts LGBTQ+ Mixer
• Whittier College Presents the 82nd Annual Bach Festival
• Carter Appointed Director of Poet Athletics
• Anderson Appointed Whittier College Vice President
• College Receives Sculpture Donation from Famous Chinese Artist
• Jam for Puerto Rico/Descarga Para Puerto Rico Benefit Concert
• Inauguration of Whittier College President Linda Oubré
• Fall 2018 Dean's List
• Daryl Davis Announced as 2019 Feinberg Lecturer
• Whittier College Announces New Leadership Appointments
• 'Wonderful Life' Returns to Whittier
• Whittier Ranked for Social Mobility of Graduates
• Whittier Noted as a Top College
• Whittier College Expands Access for Transfer Students
• Rock Carter to Lead Poet Athletics
• Whittier Featured in 2019 Fiske Guide
• Whittier Named Among the Top Colleges in the Nation
• Whittier Featured in National Geographic
• Whittier Welcomes Class of 2019

Academic Year 2017-2018

• Whittier College Will Celebrate Latino Graduates
• Whittier Backs Undocumented Students
• Music Professor Launches CD With Concert
• Perfect Pitch - The National Anthem for the National Pastime
• Linda Oubré Named President of Whittier College
• The Whittier College Theatre Department Presents Hamlet
• President Herzberger Names New Faculty Chairs
• Fall 2017 Dean's List
• Joanna Mendelson Announced as 2018 Whittier College Feinberg Lecturer
• Professor Wallis Appointed New Associate Dean
• Whittier College and AICCU Recognize Assembly Majority Leader Ian Calderon as Champion of Students
• Broadoaks invites all to annual fundraising auction; proceeds to benefit children's services
• Poets Welcomed for Whittier Weekend 2017
• 2017 Poet Awards Celebrate Exceptional Whittier College Alumni
• Major Funding from the Luce Foundation Launches a Three-Year Project
• Whittier College Welcomes Class of 2018

Academic Year 2016-2017

• Sol Trujillo Announced as Whittier College 2017 Commencement Speaker
• U.S. Presidential Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco Will Visit Whittier College
• Whittier College Supports DACA Students
• Mellon Foundation Awards Grant to Enhance Whittier College's Organizational Leadership Program
• Women's Baseball Collection Added to the Institute for Baseball Studies
• Whittier College Included in 2017 Fiske Guide to Colleges
• Coming Fall 2016: The New and Improved Ettinger Student Lounge
• Jake Carbine Will Bring Global Vision to Garrett House

Academic Year 2015-2016

• Whittier College Graduate Receives Fulbright Award
• Two Longtime Professors Retire
• Spring 2016 Dean's List Announced
• Whittier College Appoints Kieron Miller as Vice President for Enrollment 
• Donnelly Awarded 2016 O. Henry Prize
• Alumnus Miguel Santana to Speak at Whittier College's Latino Graduates Celebration
• Whittier College and SPA 7 Child Abuse Council to Host "Reality Party" for More Than 100 Community Parents 
• Maria Contreras-Sweet Announced as Whittier College's Commencement Speaker
• Whittier College Adopts Test-Optional Admission Policy
• Feinberg Lecture 2016: Rock the Casbah - The Future of the Middle East 
• 79th Annual Bach Festival to Delight with New Harpsichord
• Family Literary Collection Finds New Home at Whittier
• Fall 2015 Dean's List Announced 
• Playwright and Author of Real Women Have Curves to Give Master Class on Chicana Leadership
• Martin Luther King Day Celebration to Include "Dr. King's Voice"
• Baseball Great James "Mudcat" Grant to Receive Honorary Degree from Whittier College
• The Ruth B. Shannon Center Celebrates 25th Anniversary Season
• Whittier to Host Events About China and the Environment
• Enceladus Theatre Company and Whittier College Present: It's a Wonderful Life
• The Department of Education Awards $2.6M Title V Grant to the College
• 44th Annual Tardeada Will Celebrate Latino Culture on October 25
• 2015 Poet Awards Commend Exceptional Whittier College Alumni
• Whittier College to Welcome Alumni and Local Community to Whittier Weekend
• New Faculty Members Join Whittier College
• Whittier College Featured in Princeton Review's Best Colleges Guide

Academic Year 2014-2015

• Whittier College Appoints New Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty
• The Henry Luce Foundation Awards Whittier College $400,000 Implementation Grant
• Center for Engagement with Communities is Awarded $423,524 Grant from the BCM Foundation
• Whittier College Professor Awarded $120,000 Grant from the California Community Foundation
• Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti Named Commencement Speaker
• Whittier College Appoints Steve Delgado as Vice President for Advancement
• Dr. Freeman Hrabowski Named 2015 CEC Distinguished Fellow
• 2015 Feinberg Lecture Speaker Announced
• President Herzberger Promotes Benefits of Collegiate Play at NCAA Convention
• Whittier College Included in President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll
• New Vice President and Dean of Students Announced
• Whittier College Announces Commitment to Expand College Access at White House Event
• Professor Awarded Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
• Science and Learning Center Moves Forward
• Whittier Weekend 2014
• Biology Professor Receives Department of Homeland Funding to Detect Dangerous Agents in Food
• Baseball Reliquary and Whittier College Establish Institute for Baseball Studies
• Poets Participate in 20th Annual Helping Hands Day
• Broadoaks Children Celebrate Peace Day

Academic Year 2013-2014

• Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina to Receive Honorary Degree
• Theater Department Stages Hairspray the Musical
• Poet High Achievers Named to Fall 2013 Dean's List
• Whittier College Library Receives Rare Quaker Book Collection
• Whittier College President Participates in White House College Summit
• Whittier Opens State-Of-The-Art Music Studio
• Whittier College Hosts Southern California Conferences For Undergraduate Research
• Mellon Foundation Grants Whittier $750,000 to Advance Digital Liberal Arts Curriculum
• Theatre Department Stages The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
• 42nd Annual Tardeada Celebrates Latino Culture
• 2013 Whittier College New Student Convocation
• Aloha Concert Series Breezes into the Shannon Center

Academic Year 2012 - 2013

• Cisneros Foundation Awards Grant to Whittier College
• Whittier College Awarded $112,372 Grant from the United States Institute Of Peace
• Whittier College Awarded Grant from the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment
• 2013 Honors Convocation
• Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Sonia Nazario Will be the 2013 Whittier College Commencement Speaker
• The Glass Menagerie to Come to Life at Whittier College
• Steve Martin Play to be Staged at Whittier College
• Feinberg Lecture 2013: Dr. Deborah Lipstadt
• 2013 Whittier College Writers Festival
• Whittier College Nixon Fellows to Attend Presidential Inauguration
• Richard M. Nixon's '34 100th Birthday Celebrated
• Philanthropist David Bohnett to Speak At Whittier College
• Whittier College Dedicates Poets Wall
• 41st Annual Tardeada Celebrates Latino Culture
• Dr. Richard Solomon to Speak to First-Year Students'
• President Obama Proclaims National Hispanic-Serving Institutions Week 2012
• Whittier College Named to the 2012-13 Colleges of Distinction Guidebook
• Whittier College Awarded $800,000 Grant to Promote Science and Math Education
• Whittier College Partners with Chinese Institutions to Promote Language and Culture
• Whittier College to Celebrate 109th Commencement Ceremony

Academic Year 2011 - 2012

• Whittier College Receives National Recognition for Community Service
• Public Invited to Poetry Reading and Lecture with Award-Winning Dramatist Nilo Cruz
• Whittier College to Commemorate Five-Year Anniversary of Virginia Tech Massacre in Nationwide Movement
• Whittier College to Stage Classic Comedy: "She Stoops to Conquer" by Oliver Goldsmith
• Top Environmental Scientists James Galloway '66 to Receive Poet Award for Alumni Achievement 
• Athletics Celebrate Academic Achievement for Fall Semester
• Inside Latin Jazz Continues with Grammy Nominated Mongorama
• Whittier College Presents its 75th Annual Johann Sebastian Bach Festival
• Dr. Richard Solomon to Speak at Whittier College: "Enabling the Dragon: President Nixon and The Week That Changed the World"
• Former U.S. Deputy Secretary Of State, Richard Armitage Will Speak At Whittier College: "Lessons from the Gridiron for a Career in Public Service"
• 2012 Feinberg Lecture: Senator George Mitchell, The Implications of the Arab Spring for Peace in the Middle East
• Liberal Arts College Graduates Feel Better Prepared for Life's Challenges
• Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen to be Staged in the Studio Theater of the Shannon Center for the Performing Arts
• 40th Annual Whittier College Tardeada Celebrates Latino Culture
• General Pete Dawkins to Speak at the First Annual Leadership Forum: Leadership defined In—and Defining—the 21st Century
• 2011 Poet Awards Celebrate Outstanding Whittier Alumni
• Whittier College Theater Department Opens Fall Season With Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl
• Aloha Series 2011-2012
• Linda Biehl '65: 2011 New Student Convocation Keynote Speaker
• Whittier College Featured in 2012 Edition of the The Princeton Review's "The Best 376 Colleges"
• Whittier College Lauded by Fiske College Guide

Academic Year 2010 - 2011

• Whittier College Hosts Students from Kede College of Beijing
• Award Winning Journalist Delivers 2011 Commencement Speech
• Three Whittier College Students Chosen for Fulbright Awards
• Whittier College Theater Department Presents Scapin By Moliere
• Whittier Students, Faculty, and Alumni Perform at Grammy Museum
• Whittier College Professor Joseph Price to Sing Anthem at Minor League Baseball Stadiums Across The United States
• 74th Annual Whittier College Johann Sebastien Bach Festival Will Celebrate Bach and the Flute
• Public Television Producers Bill Moyers and Judith Davidson Moyers Will Deliver Keynote at Whittier College's 108th Commencement Ceremony
• Whittier College Helping Hands Day 2011
• Whittier College Presents Rent-The Musical
• Whittier College 2011 Feinberg Lecture: Former U.S. Ambassador To Israel And Egypt Daniel C. Kurtzer
• Legendary Percussionist "Mr. Bongo" Jack Costanzo Joins Inside Latin Jazz With Danilo Lozano
• Respected American Environmentalist Bill Mckibben Will Speak at Whittier College
• Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts Celebrates 20th Anniversary
• Whittier College Part of Building Blocks to 2020 Website
• 2010 Writers Festival
• 2010 Acoustic Voices Series
• Aloha Festival Returns to Whittier College

Academic Year 2009 - 2010

• Whittier College Will Celebrate 9th Annual Latino Graduate Celebration
• Cuban-American Playwright Nilo Cruz To Become Honorary Poet
• Whittier College Receives Grant From Fletcher Jones Foundation
• 2010 Whittier College Children's Literature Conference
• 2010 Amigos Celebrates Latino Culture at Whittier College
• American Novelist Tim O'Brien to Keynote Whittier College's 107th Commencement Ceremony
• Nobel Prize Winning Scientist Luc Montagnier to Speak at Whittier College
• Whittier President Joins CIC Board of Directors
• 2010 Feinberg Lecture: Performance Artist Claudia stevens Presents and Evening With Madame F
• Whittier College Receives Grant from W.M. Keck Foundation
• Professors Danilo Lozano and David Muller Present Wind Ef Fusions
• 38th Annual Tardeada Celebrates Latino Culture
• Woodrow Wilson Fellow Richard Halloran to Speak on the Rising of China
• 2009 Whittier College Writers Festival
• Whittier College President Sharon Herzberger Honored by Los Angeles Sparks
• Acoustic Voices at the Ruth B. Shannon Center for Performing Arts
• The 16th Annual Aloha Series of Hawai’ian Music Kicks Off