Sterling College recognized its Alumni Award winners for 2021 who were awarded at Homecoming on Oct. 14-16. The Distinguished Service Award was awarded to Marty (Montgomery) Behrendt ’68, the Spirit of Sterling Alumni Award was awarded to Jane (Milligan) Davidson ’71, and the Young Alumni Award was given to Luke T. Orr ’07 and Joel M. Orr ’09.

Beginning on Thursday, Oct. 14, alumni will travel back to Sterling College to experience the Homecoming 2021 festivities, many of which the community is invited to attend. On Thursday, Check-in and Registration will open at 9 a.m. in the Alumni Center. The Freeman Lecture Series featuring speaker Jonathan Evans begins at 1 p.m. Sterling College will present the opening of Disney’s “Newsies” in Culbertson Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Registration, tickets and additional information for all Homecoming events can be found at sterling.edu/homecoming.

September 7, 2021, Sterling, Kan. – Sterling College is set to host a regional conference, “Fostering Community and Hospitality on a Diverse Campus” funded by a grant from the Lilly Fellows Program. The conference will take place on May 16, 2022, on the Sterling College campus in Sterling, Kan. The conference aims to gather faculty, staff, and administration from multiple church-related colleges and universities in Kansas in order to discuss and deepen our commitment to diversity and its connection to our respective missions as faith-based institutions.

Sterling College welcomed three new faculty members to campus for the fall semester. Classes begin on Wednesday, August 18. 

“We are proud to welcome these full-time faculty and clinical instructors to the Sterling College family, and we are looking forward to how these individuals will engage and interact with the students we are here to serve,” said Dr. Ken Brown, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the College.