On the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 8, the St. Olaf community welcomed His Majesty, the Crown Prince of Norway Haakon Magnus to campus, who visited as part of a week-long trip to the United States celebrating...
A new academic year brings in fresh faces to the Student Government Association (SGA). After three days of voting, the campus community selected their 2025-26 SGA senators. To help students better learn...
Catie Lyons, Contributing Writer
• October 8, 2025
n Sept. 23, the U.S. News & World Report released its annual college rankings. In the Liberal Arts Colleges category, St. Olaf was listed in the top 50 four times: No. 9 for Best Value, No. 17 for...
Hours before a government shutdown, St. Olaf College notified the campus community in a Weekly Rundown email on Sept. 30 that the College’s TRIO programs have received full funding for the 2025-26 academic...
Half a decade ago, few colleges had formal policies on artificial intelligence (AI). Today, nearly every syllabus at St. Olaf has a section dedicated to it.
Since the release of GPT-4 and its subsequent...
In August, St. Olaf College began a partnership with BoodleBox, an artificial intelligence (AI) integration company, amidst reservations from the campus community about the technology’s place in higher...
On Monday, Sept. 22, the Student Government Association (SGA) officially unveiled their newest project: a swingset.
Representatives of the SGA spoke about the inspiration for this new addition to...
Ashlyn Wuench, Executive Editor
• September 24, 2025
As artificial intelligence (AI) and education become increasingly intertwined in conversation, St. Olaf faculty and staff are opening campus conversations about AI use, offering student employee training...
With heavy hearts, members of the St. Olaf community gathered the evening of Sept. 12 in Boe Chapel to remember Matthew Lee ’27, who was fatally shot earlier that morning in South St. Paul.
Lee was...
St. Olaf joined more than 500 colleges and universities across the country in signing a national letter opposing what it calls “unprecedented” government overreach into higher education.
The letter,...
On April 14, the Institute for Freedom and Community (IFC) hosted two guest speakers: Jake Monaghan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California and Michelle Phelps, Professor...
On March 19, the St. Olaf President’s Leadership Team hosted a talk surrounding St. Olaf and recent federal policy changes. Vice President for Student Life Hassel A. Morrison, Vice President and General...
