Sterling College has announced its six Homecoming King and Queen Candidates for the SC Homecoming weekend on October 13 – October 15, 2011. The Homecoming Ceremonies will take place on Saturday, October 15 during halftime of the football game against Bethel College of North Newton, Kansas. Kick-off for the game will be at 1:30 pm.
Sterling College begins its homecoming celebration Thursday with the musical, Children of Eden, opening at 8:00 p.m. in Culbertson Auditorium. In addition to the musical, there are plenty of activities for the community to get involved in and enjoy the festivities.
Kansas City, Mo. - Sterling College has been named a Five Star Champions of Character Institution by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) for the 2010-2011 school year. A Five Star Champions of Character Institution shows commitment in athletics to the five key areas of character training, conduct in competition, academic focus, character recognition, and character promotion. These five areas measure the Institutions commitment to the Champions of Character core values of integrity, respect, responsibility, sportsmanship, and servant leadership.
As a way to evaluate its strengths and weaknesses as an institution, Sterling College invited students to part-take in the Noel-Levitz Student Satisfaction Survey last semester. The results are in and Sterling College has seen progress in both increasing our areas of strength as well as areas of concern from the last time the survey was distributed.
The Sterling College Bookstore is going join over 500 nationwide college bookstores to participate in National Student Day, October 6, to celebrate and promote social responsibility and volunteerism by college students.
Sterling College’s homecoming musical, Children of Eden, will take place in Culbertson Auditorium, October 13-15, at 8:00 p.m. on the Sterling College campus. This musical is noteworthy as it is the last musical production by the Gordon Kling and Diane De Franco-Kling as they are retiring at the end of the academic year.
The Sterling College Debate Team won the Debates on a Plain Invitational Tournament for the 4th consecutive year. The team captured 1st place overall, with more than a 60 point advantage over the 2nd place team, Cameron University. Sterling College advanced four out of their five doubles teams to the elimination rounds, amassing an overall record of 22-10. Team members also competed in the forensics portion, or individual events, of the tournament with Jessica Brayton capturing 2nd in Extemporaneous Speaking.
Five employees were recognized for reaching milestones in their careers at Sterling College. Gladys Ritterhouse and Nancy Hicks have worked at the college for 10 years, Janet Caywood and Deb Wiebe for 15 years, and Margaret Calderwood for 20 years.
Two employees were recognized for 30 years of service at the annual Kick-Off Banquet at Sterling College. Marge Jones diligently worked in admissions for over 25 of those years, during which she processed approximately 5,000 deposits and 25,000 applications, worked with more than 350,000 enquiries, and generated over 2,000,000 pieces of mail for Sterling College.