Icebreakers, you either love them or you hate them. Regardless of your feelings about them, teachers everywhere make you do them on the first day of classes. “What’s your name?” ,  “Where are you from?”, and “What is your favorite color?” are some of the millions of questions students have to answer. So I decided I would have some professors at Millikin answer some of these generic questions and share some insight: Professor Alex Rasmussen Dr. Allen Rasmussen, Visiting Assist

For Ryan Janssen, Millikin Baseball has been a full circle experience. After being a part of bringing a championship to Millikin as a player, Janssen has returned to the Big Blue as a hitting coach, bringing a fresh perspective that only a player can provide to the current roster. Coming back to Millikin simply completed the circle. “I was recruited to Millikin out of high school,” Janssen says. “I had a relationship with the current coach, Coach Townsend, through summer ball

Hailing from the gateway to the Midwest, St. Louis native and Senior, Jallah Kollie reflects on these past three years at Millikin University. His journey at Millikin began with a simple campus tour. Being provided the opportunity to meet the head of the Computer Science department drew him in. “The professor I met was really nice and up to that point I had really nice, good teachers. I knew she would be someone who was going to care for me, my education, and continue the tre

Trustee Chair Kathy Thomforde Nearly fifty years have passed since Kathy Thomforde first arrived at Millikin University as a transfer student in 1976. After all that time, Millikin has remained an undeniable positive force in her life, from the time she walked on campus as a student, to now as Chair of the Board of Trustees. She dedicates her weeks to helping guide the university to success. She says this “launched her both personally and professionally.” For Thomforde, findi

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Millikin often produces brilliant alumni who are incredibly successful within their fields. I had the opportunity to talk to Derek...

Marv posing in his orchard. Tucked away in a small Mt. Zion neighborhood is my grandpa's orchard, in the last neighborhood one would...