Dec 6, 2021
In the program's 11th year, Simpson's Speech, Debate & Mock Trial programs already are off to a terrific start of the season and looking to build on winning yet another national championship in debate — and becoming national powers in speech and mock trial. Director Spencer Waugh and Assistant Director Marisa Mayo...
Nov 22, 2021
'I don't get much sleep that's for sure,' laughs Jesse Allen. And who can blame the Simpson '13 grad? He's developing a career as a podcaster and farm broadcaster, being heard on a national network and on SiriusXM, working out of Nashville. And he's also a rising independent country music singer-songwriter and touring...
Nov 15, 2021
Simpson College students turned out to vote at a record-high 75.3% rate in 2020, according to data from from the National Study of Learning, Voting & Engagement. Seth Andersen of the John C. Culver Public Policy Center and Elise Sturgeon, a student ambassador with the Andrew Goodman Foundation, stop by the podcast to...
Nov 8, 2021
The study of history at Simpson College isn't dry professors lecturing to passive students. it's an active process in which students play the roles of historical figures to learn how history might have turned out. Nick Proctor, one of the Simpson professors who teaches with the Reacting To The Past method, comes on...
91: Sal Meyers on Simpson Foundations
Nov 1, 2021
Simpson College is launching its new academic program for first-year students this fall. Simpson Foundations is a two-semester experience focusing on civic engagement and student well-being in the fall semester, and on diversity, equity and inclusion in the spring term. Foundations Director Sal Meyers comes on the...