The perilous state of Documents and interviews with insiders offer a more complete picture of key economic, strategic and circumstantial factors leading to the dramatic turn of events that left students, staff, faculty and families in limbo for months. in New York City developed over decades, hit turbulence in the past two years, then turned into a stunning death spiral in the Spring 2023 semester.
Read MoreThe King’s Players put on a show “to die for” featuring Agatha Christie’s murder mystery “And Then There Were None” in the City Room of The King’s College on Friday and Saturday, April 14 and 15. Directed by Emily Zielinski, a sophomore in the house of Susan B. Anthony, the cast and crew featured members from every house and class year within the two-hour play.
Read MoreKing’s discussed transfer options, current fundraising updates and the TKC Letters Project at the Community Update meeting on Monday, Feb. 27. “We've had a number of people… working on different transfer agreements with a bunch of schools,” said Dr. Kimberly Reeve, Dean of Academic Affairs. “This is to give you options.” Reeve then named seven schools actively building transfer agreements with King’s, noting that King’s has legal permission from each institution to disclose their identity to the public.
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The King’s College hosted the“Africa in Context: Aid, Entrepreneurship and US-Ethiopia Relations” conference on Feb. 18 to launch the non-profit organization SOPHOS AFRICA. The conference featured notable keynote speakers such as Ethiopia’s Minister of Justice, best-selling author and New York University economics professor Dr. William Easterly and Poverty, Inc. director Michael Miller.
After four weeks of fried famine, free Chick-Fil-A sandwiches will once again be provided to attendees of The King’s College’s weekly Public Reading of Scripture (PRS) starting Monday, Feb. 20. “The money is coming from a Bonhoeffer alumnus who is generously funding the food for PRS,” said Director of Spiritual Life Rafael Oliveira in a press release. “He is committed to funding Chick-Fil-A for every PRS until the end of the semester.”
Read MoreThe Community Update on Monday, Feb. 13 addressed the college’s current debt, efforts in fundraising, continued partnership discussions and transfer arrangements in the event that the school should close. The event began with Interim President Stockwell Day assuring the student body that the meeting would provide as much information as possible.
Read MoreDr. Kimberly Reeve informed the student body that The King’s College has “a funding gap of approximately $2.6 million” during the community update following the Public Reading of Scripture on Jan. 30. “That's what we need… to finish the end of this semester well,” Reeve said. Two days later, on Wednesday, Feb. 1, multiple emails regarding the current financial situation were sent out to the larger network of the King’s community. The email asked alumni to “donate by February 15th, 2023 to help ensure that we meet our immediate financial needs.”
Read MoreAttendance for The King’s College’s Public Reading of Scripture (PRS) has significantly dropped in the first two weeks of the Spring 2023 semester after the formal announcement of no more free Chick-fil-A from the college’s Grace and Mercy Foundation (G&M) grant during their Welcome Back Gathering. It remains unclear as to how the funds that were paying for lunch at PRS are being reallocated.
Read MorePeter Freeby is a digital designer and self-described “freelance COO,” and his latest passion project will turn into a full-time gig in January 2023 – a startup mobile app for tabletop roleplaying games (RPGs) called Tabletop Town. Tabletop Town is “an app to play Dungeons and Dragons and eventually other tabletop role-playing games on your phone,” Freeby explains, “asynchronously and mobile-first.”
Read MoreThe King’s College’s Executive Committee announced incoming changes to the school’s budget and operations during the Spring 2023 Welcome Back Gathering on Thursday, Jan. 19. Interim President Stockwell Day explained that The King's College will make a series of budget cuts and adjustments to “show donors that we are being fiscally responsible.”
This December marks the finale of the two-month running of “Straight Line Crazy”, a play written by David Hare and directed by Nicholas Hytner on the legacy of the one and only Robert Moses. Moses, a larger-than-life enigma of a man captured for the stage by British star Ralph Fiennes, is portrayed as an eccentric genius of a builder hampered by the inconveniences of American democracy. However, Moses’ legacy has a darker side.
Read MoreThe King’s College will undergo several “strategic rightsizing” changes within the next few years, according to an internal announcement from the Board of Trustees on Tuesday, Nov. 15. “Rather than pursue aggressive growth, we are purposefully adjusting the size of our New York City location,” the announcement stated. “This includes limiting our enrollment, reducing the number of faculty, raising tuition to realistically reflect the true cost of educating a King’s student, and condensing our campus footprint.”
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