Due to the possibility of inclement weather on the morning of Saturday, May 15,  the 2021 Sterling College Commencement ceremony will be held indoors. The event will be held at the Gleason Center on Lonnie Kruse Court. To accommodate the number of graduates and their guests, three ceremonies will be held. Please read below for details regarding these ceremonies.

This year’s Sterling College Weekend Celebration will be unlike any other previously as two classes will be honored: the Class of 2020 and the Class of 2021. The graduating seniors will gather in the cafeteria for the annual senior breakfast provided by the Alumni Association and Career Services on Friday morning, followed by their class pictures on the steps of Cooper Hall. 

Sterling College student journalism racked up more recognition recently by securing victories in the Kansas Collegiate Media Contest.

Junior Taya Wilson, of Sterling, came away as an individual winner. Also, the Sterling College Observer newspaper, which is in its second year as the campus newspaper, once again received a Silver designation in the overall category, in which publications can earn one or none of three overall honors within their classification. 

The Student Government Association at Sterling College has been busy this spring and that continues with an event open to the Sterling community, the Mental Health Awareness Fair. The Fair will take place on Saturday, May 8, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on East Cooper Lawn and will feature events such as a cake walk, face painting, pledge signing, art show, movies, snacks and other activities.  The event is free and open to the public. 

Sterling College business students are competing against over fifty student teams from 39 colleges and universities across the nation in the 2021 CSBS Community Bank Case Study Competition. The student teams will partner with local community banks to examine how they have navigated the Covid-19 pandemic and what they are doing for diversity and inclusion. Sterling students partnered with the First Bank of Sterling for the competition. 

Sterling College has recently signed articulation agreements with Emporia State University for three graduate business programs. The Masters of Accountancy program contract originally signed by the two schools in 2015 has been renewed. Additionally Sterling has new agreements with Emporia State in the Master of Business Administration program and Master of Information Technology program by way of the new articulation agreements.  

Sterling College students Sydney Bangert, of Kingman, and Johanna Beck, of McPherson, were both awarded Green and Gold scholarships from the Kansas Independent College Foundation. KICF received 55 nominations for its collection of merit-based scholarships. A volunteer panel of nine judges helped select the 22 winners. Each nominated student had to submit detailed essays about their leadership training, their future career goals, and why they chose an independent option for their higher education.

On Saturday, April 24, there were 225 Sterling College students, faculty, staff and community members who joined together to serve the town of Sterling, Kan., by participating in the event Love Sterling, a city-wide service day. The coordinator of Love Sterling, Emilie Holland, missions director and resident director, and several students had been planning the event since January.