Changing leaves, cooler temperatures, and a row of pumpkins prepared for blast-off behind the John S. Toll Science Center are typically signs of the fall season on the Washington College campus.
Dr. Alisha Knight has been awarded the Cromwell Award for Innovation in Teaching, an honor that is handed out each fall to an instructor for exceptional accomplishments in pedagogy, including using new instructional technologies, revamping traditional technologies in creative ways, applying novel approaches to instruction, innovating in curricular development and engaging students in the learning process in new ways.
Washington College has once again been ranked among the nation's top institutions by the WSJ/THE and US News & World Report, as part of their annual education rankings.
The Preliminary Cultural Landscape Assessment Report that Washington College helped produce was recently awarded the Smart Growth Excellence Award by Preservation Maryland, as part of this year’s Best of Maryland awards.
Through a public history project funded by the Mellon Foundation, Washington College’s Starr Center for the Study of The American Experience is collecting and preserving the stories of Kent County’s African American families.
Washington College is one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features the school in the new 2021 edition of its college guide, "The Best 386 Colleges."
Michael Harvey, the John S. Toll Associate Professor of Business Management, has been named to a three-year term as Interim Provost and Dean of Washington College.