- The College, in conjunction with Elaine Baylor and a number of prominent Idaho businesspeople, announced the Elgin & Elaine Baylor Opportunity Fund. The Fund has a goal of a $25 million endowment that will be used to fund 44 students with financial need from under-represented populations with full-tuition scholarships to attend the College. The announcement drew a lot of attention, with media reports published by KTVB-TV, KBOI-TV, KIVI-TV, Idaho Education News, the Idaho Statesman, and the Idaho Press, among others.
- Keneilwe Patience Mabidikama, a senior at the College, is performing a spring internship with KBSX Radio. She’s writing news stories like this one about waivers for food stamps. (KBSX Radio)
- Freshman Saumya Sarin is making her voice heard on the topic of restricting forms of voter IDs. (KIVI-TV)
- Here's a question-and-answer article with Natalie Wight '96, Oregon's top federal prosecutor and U.S. Attorney. (Portland Business Journal)
- Hear from Kris Komori '05 after being nominated for another prestigious James Beard Award. (KIVI-TV)
- Matthew McDaniel ’07, the principal at Lewis & Clark Elementary School will present at the National Association of Elementary School Principals. Here's the information from Facebook.
- Decoding Dyslexia Idaho stopped by campus last month to present grant checks to junior Jaden Hernandez and Meg Osterhout '20. The grants will allow the two to attend and present at the World Literacy Summit with Dr. Sally Brown of the education department later this spring. (Idaho Press)
- Prospective students in Payette earn more than $450,000 in scholarship offers to the College via the Hispanic Youth Leadership Summit. (Argus Observer)
- Vice President of High Impact Practices Latonia Haney Keith moderated and constitutional law scholar McKay Cunningham, an instructor at the College, participated in this panel discussion in Boise about the impact of the Dobbs decision at the City Club of Boise gathering in early February. (KBSX Radio)
- The sensational season for the College's men's basketball team continues. This past week, the Yotes defeated Westcliff (California) and Xavier (Louisiana) here in Caldwell in the first two rounds of the NAIA national tournament. The team, which is the top-ranked men's NAIA basketball team in the country, is headed to Kansas City for the rest of the tournament. (KTVB-TV and KIVI-TV)
- Earlier in February, the Yotes won over rival Eastern Oregon and, in doing so, clinched the Cascade Conference regular-season title and an automatic berth into the NAIA national tournament. (Idaho Press)
- The team kept the pedal down, rolling through the end-of-season conference tournament, culminating with a 31-point win on its home floor to take home the tourney title as well. (KTVB-TV)
- Head coach Colby Blaine headlined a group of Yote hoopsters to earn end-of-season awards from the Cascade Conference. (KTVB-TV)
- Coach Blaine and Boise State football coach Andy Avalos - two coaches with one message about "taking souls." (Idaho Press)
- Jake O'Neil was a golfer at Boise State. He left that team in search of another, and he found it in the basketball team at The College of Idaho. (Idaho Press)
- O'Neil and women's basketballer Lexi Mitchell were named Cascade Conference Player of the Week for their respective sports in the same week in early February. (Cascade Conference)
- Mitchell's award came shortly after she became the all-time leading rebounder in the history of the women's basketball program at the College. (KIVI-TV)
- Basketball recruit Jenika Zurita was forced to sit out this season as she battled leukemia. Nevertheless, the College is holding her spot on the team and she still plans on becoming a Yote. (Monterey Herald)
- Women's soccer coach Brian Smith announces his incoming recruiting class, a 12-player group that will join the Yotes this fall. (Victory Sports Network)
- Two nationally-ranked softball teams, No. 13 College of Idaho and No. 7 Oregon Tech, met on the field in Caldwell. Not surprisingly, the two titans split the four-game series. (Victory Sports Network)