Several new faculty members are joining the College this year.
Dr. David Briones will be teaching in the theology and ministry department. He earned his B.A. in Biblical Studies with an emphasis in Biblical Languages from Life Pacific College and his M.Div. in Pastoral and General Ministries from the Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.
Director of Debate and Forensics Ken Troyer believes in giving back, and he is teaching his students to do the same. This summer, Troyer and his debate team member, Nolan Chaney of South Hutchinson, Kan., had the opportunity to serve together at the Heart of America Debate Institute.
Assistant Professor of Language and Literature Mark Watney spent much of his summer reading and studying classical Greek plays as he prepared to attend a Harvard-sponsored seminar on Song Culture of Athenian Drama.
Members of the Women's Soccer team recently returned from Anchorage, Alaska, where they spent six days working with the Mountain View Boys and Girls Club and in local parks hosting soccer clinics for kids. The team left on July 22 and returned July 29.
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Sports Information Directors Association (NAIA-SIDA) awarded the 2011 Sterling College Football Media Guide fifth place in the 2011-2012 NAIA-SIDA Football Brochure Publication Contest.
Across the nation there is a shortage of special education teachers, and Sterling College is beginning an online adaptive special education program to help Kansas schools fill this need.