DePauw Stories

By Chris White, senior professor of English, creative school special programs

Let’s look at the college of liberal arts and sciences as the original tree standing at the center of the university. 

DePauw is pleased to announce a new partnership with Slingshot, an Indiana-owned, family business headquartered in Marion, Ind., to operate its cherished campus bookstore, Eli’s Books. This new partnership ensures that the familiar comforts and community spirit of Eli’s remain intact while embracing new opportunities for growth and service.

Four members of Phi Delta Theta, from the Indiana Zeta chapter at DePauw University, were recognized for their scholarship, campus, and community involvement through the generosity of fraternity brother Albert L. Lund ’48.

Roughly three dozen first-year seminars take place throughout campus every fall term. Although each one looks different from the next, these small, discussion-based classes all play a crucial role in bridging the gap between high school and college. 

What do you remember about DePauw winter term? For many, this now 50-year-plus tradition of the non-traditional class is the source of some of our most vivid and beloved college memories.Winter term offers DePauw students the opportunity to make an intentional choice of one course on which to exclusively focus for three weeks.

DePauw’s three schools are doing more than expanding academic offerings for students and opening the door to unprecedented interdisciplinary collaboration on campus. They’re also providing a crucial opportunity for alumni to give back in a new and meaningful way, something that several dozen alumni have embraced in their roles as inaugural members of…