A number of Riverbend-area students were named to the Blackburn College Dean's List for the Fall 2018 semester.
Students named to the Dean's List must earn a grade point average of 3.6 for the semester. Local honorees were:
Alton: Abbie Rister
Godfrey: Brianna Camerer, Olivia Friese, Olivia Mapes
Granite City: Gabrianna Lucas
Highland: Savannah Hund
Worden: Savannah Welch
Founded in 1837, Blackburn College is a four-year, Presbyterian-related, co-educational liberal arts college located in Carlinville. One of the seven work colleges in the U.S., Blackburn is the only one with a student-managed Work Program. Blackburn was also ranked by US News as one of the Top 50 Midwest Colleges in 2016 and the No. 5 Best Value in Regional Colleges in the Midwest; and The Washington Monthly ranked the college as the best baccalaureate college in Illinois for 2016 and among the top 50 in the U.S.