Week of Events
Alumni Book Club: All the Lonely People: A Novel
Join our virtual community to connect with fellow Berea College alumni, faculty and staff as we read and discuss various book genres such as lifelong learning, personal growth, novels and other topics. Scroll down for more information. Participation is free! How it Works We have created a virtual book club for alumni, faculty and staff, […]
Alumni Movie Club: The Ron Clark Story
Join our virtual community to discuss “movies that matter” connected to social justice, history and social issues. Scroll down for more information. Participation is free! How It Works Berea College created a virtual movie club for students, alumni, faculty and staff. The movie club will connect through a private text-based forum where all participants can […]
Career Success in Your 20s
Young alumni are invited to join us for our next free, virtual professional development course, offered exclusively to Berea alumni. If you’re spinning your wheels in your career, feeling overwhelmed by what’s next, or have the sense that your career is happening to you, you aren’t alone. The modern career landscape is vastly different from […]
Songs of Slavery and Emancipation
Songs of Slavery and Emancipation
Dr. Kathy Bullock and Mat Callahan In 2015 Mat Callahan discovered a song composed and sung by slaves preparing an insurrection in South Carolina in 1813. The lyrics were explicitly revolutionary and unlike any other Negro Spiritual he’d ever heard. He realized immediately that this song posed many questions: what if there were more songs […]
Career Development Week: Career Café
Career Development Week: Career Café
Our biggest Career Café yet! Meet in Baird Lounge for coffee, tea, and cocoa while you organize your career development goals for the year with the help of our peer consultants. Stay for as little or as long as you want and bring lots of questions!
Chapel Worship Service & Lunch
Chapel Worship Service & Lunch
On a weekly basis during the academic year, the Campus Christian Center leads a worship service on Tuesday’s at noon. The Center plans and offers diverse services of Christian worship within an ecumenical Christian atmosphere. Worshipers can also share a light, midday meal together in the Fireside Room, immediately following worship at 12:30 p.m. The […]
bell hooks day
bell hooks day
Join the bell hooks center for our inaugural bell hooks day festivities honoring the late bell hooks. 10:30 AM: Ribbon-cutting on bell hooks way (formerly Campus Dr.) 11:30 AM-1 PM: Gender Talk with Dr. Monica Casper entitled "Love, Rage, and Dreams: bell hooks on Reproductive Freedom" in the Alumni Activities Room; lunch will be provided […]
Career Development Week: Graduate and Professional School Day
Career Development Week: Graduate and Professional School Day
Meet with 15+ recruiters from graduate and professional schools across the region right here in Berea! We will have recruiters for a range of academic fields and programs. All programs attending can be found on Handshake. While you don't need to stay for the entire duration of the event, please plan on enough time to […]
KY Law School Panel
KY Law School Panel
Join recruiters from Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University, University of Kentucky J. Davis Rosenberg College of Law, and Brandeis School of Law at University of Louisville during the Graduate and Professional School fair to learn more about application best practices and form your graduate school network.
KY Law School Panel
KY Law School Panel
Join recruiters from Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University, University of Kentucky J. Davis Rosenberg College of Law, and Brandeis School of Law at University of Louisville during the Graduate and Professional School fair to learn more about application best practices and form your graduate school network.
Spiritual Seekers
Spiritual Seekers
Want to learn more about other religions and explore your own spirituality?Do you believe interfaith dialogue is crucial to building stronger communities?We meet each Thursday at noon in the Fireside Room, Draper Bldg. for conversation, reflection, education and inspiration.A light vegetarian lunch is included.
Beyond Berea: A Convocation on Careers
Beyond Berea: A Convocation on Careers
Berea Alumni Join us as we welcome three accomplished Berea alumni who will share their stories of navigating career discernment and finding direction. Each speaker will talk about their own personal experiences and provide insights into how they managed to overcome hurdles related to their careers. Their unique perspective on “success” is meant to inspire future […]
Career Development Week: Beyond Berea Networking
Career Development Week: Beyond Berea Networking
Continue the conversation with our career convocation speakers with light refreshments.
Green Dot Student Training
Green Dot Student Training
This training is a bystander intervention program. Green Dot Training is designed to help participants understand the definition of "bystander" and to equip them with necessary skills to assist in establishing two campus norms. First, violence will not be tolerated and secondly everyone is expected to do their part to keep the campus free from […]
Career Development Week: Donuts & Discernment
Career Development Week: Donuts & Discernment
Grab a treat to celebrate the last day of Career Development week! We'll be in front of the Alumni Building giving out donuts and helping you navigate career discernment.
Friday Finds: Works of Art on the Art of Quilting
Friday Finds: Works of Art on the Art of Quilting
On these weekly tours, participants will view the exhibit Works of Art on the Art of Quilting: Twenty WPA Quilt Block Prints. Guests will then visit the Special Collections and Archives Reading Room to examine books on, and historic pictures of, quilts and quilt making.
A Berea Day at Dollywood
A Berea Day at Dollywood
A Berea Day at Dollywood We are so excited to once again host a Berea Day at Dollywood on Saturday, September 24, 2022, with discounted tickets for our Berea College alumni and their guests! Spanning 160 acres in the Great Smoky Mountains, the Dollywood theme park offers more than 50 world-class rides, high-energy entertainment, award-winning dining, and the friendliest […]