DePauw Stories

After spending his first year of collegiate baseball at another university, Carter Knoll was ready for a new environment where he could more meaningfully connect with others and find a deeper sense of belonging.

East College is DePauw University. It remains the physical, historical and spiritual heart of campus – a landmark that commands our attention nearly 150 years after its 1877 dedication.

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…