Sterling College will host Danny Wuerffel, former Heisman Trophy winner and executive director of Desire Street Ministries
Release Date:
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Sterling College will host Danny Wuerffel, former Heisman Trophy winner and executive director of Desire Street Ministries, as the speaker for The Ross and Fern Freeman Lecture Series on March 6, 2015, at 10 a.m. in Culbertson Auditorium in Spencer Hall. The Lecture Series focuses on teaching the values and applications of servant leadership through looking at modern-day lives that exhibit such characteristics.
Local telecommunications provider MTC awarded a donation to the Sterling College Department of Art and Design for a new wide-format printer. The art department purchased an Epson Stylus R2880 which improves the quality of educational delivery in many of the College’s classes.
Sterling College hosted the first annual Sterling Cheer and Dance Invitational on Friday at the Gleason Physical Education Center. Three KCAC schools participated, including Bethany College, Kansas Wesleyan University and Sterling College.
Sterling performed at the top of their game and finished in first place for the first time this season with a score of 157.25.
The Sterling College men's basketball team hosted the Bethel College Threshers on Saturday to a near-packed Gleason Center for their Saturday KCAC matchup. Sterling's offense started off hot in the second half to pull away from the Threshers for a 77-64 victory over Bethel.
Eight national youth organizations joined together with national and local youth ministry leaders to discuss ministry methods and communication strategies that best reach middle school and high school students. Sterling College’s Jenny Bradley ’02, director of ministry teams, joined the summit to know how to better equip her ministry teams students as they develop into professionals trained to reach young adults.
Sterling College’s assistant professor Hanna Kozlowski-Slone and senior art major Shelby Huber of McPherson, Kansas, have individually made strides in their professional careers this semester by being accepted into several art shows. Their passion for exhibition made them excellent candidates for TAPPED, an art show that focuses on the relationship between students and their professors, but the competition was tight.
Making its debut appearance, Sterling College was ranked 29 in the top 50 Best Value Christian Colleges and Universities by Christian Universities Online. Colleges on the list are accredited by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools or a member/affiliate of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.
The list was formed using two calculations: a ratio of quality to price and overall discount. Data was taken from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics.
Students graduating with a bachelor’s degree in health science: pre-physical therapy from Sterling College now have an advantage in their pursuit of doctoral work. Those students have been guaranteed through a newly developed articulation agreement that their undergraduate classes will fulfill the prerequisite course requirements for the doctor of physical therapy program at Southwest Baptist University.
Two art exhibits will be housed simultaneously in the gallery of the Art and Media Center at Sterling College. Lucas Knauss will display his senior thesis work, “Unnatural Selection: The Game!” along with the juried student art show, opening Thursday, Nov. 20, from 5-7 p.m. Awards for best of show, second and third place of the juried show will be announced at 6 p.m. The public is invited to attend this free event; artwork will be on display until Dec. 11.
College students, recent graduates and professionals from across the country met at the National Student Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C., and Sterling College sent four students to participate in the event. Josh Hood, Fayola Oyatayo, Chelsea Stephenson and Tennissa Williams were encouraged by speakers in national politics, business and social services to become better leaders through refining themselves. The meetings and small group sessions that worked on building character and understanding leadership were part of the conference that took place Oct. 31-Nov.