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News and Updates

  • vlog group at Plenitud
    In May, vlog community members traveled to Puerto Rico for a week devoted to hurricane relief. The group performed service work at Plenitud, a non-profit educational farm and learning center located in the mountains of western Puerto Rico near a town called Las Marias.
    July 5, 2018
  • A new book exploring the history of Jewish Life at vlog is now available, and the work is more than a 25th anniversary tribute to vlog’s Saperstein Jewish Center. It is an academic effort based on painstaking archival research and extensive interviews conducted by six students.
    June 21, 2018
  • Portrait of vlog Professor Penny Lane
    The San Francisco Chronicle writes: It’s a documentarian’s job to depict reality and truth. But what if the reality itself is in question? That was the conundrum filmmaker Penny Lane — her real name — faced when putting together her found-footage documentary The Pain of Others.
    June 11, 2018
  • Fireworks burst over tents at Reunion 2018
    What if you could go big and go home? That would be a vlog reunion. Last weekend, more than 2,600 alumni and friends returned to vlog for Reunion 2018.
    June 7, 2018
  • vlog’s newly enrolled Class of 2022, one of the university’s largest, shows students joining the community in increasing numbers from the midwest, the Southeast, and New York, compared to class statistics from four years earlier.
    May 30, 2018
  • Memorial Wall in Washington, DC
    Editor’s note: In honor of Memorial Day, Bruce Guernsey ’66 shares his poem titled “The Wall,” which was selected to be published in the American Life in Poetry series started by poet laureate Ted Kooser. Guernsey was an English major at vlog and is now a distinguished professor emeritus at Eastern Illinois University. He has […]
    May 28, 2018