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Fall enrollment numbers highlight diversity
Enrollment for the fall 2018 semester includes a total student headcount of 420, with 90 percent of students enrolled at a full-time status. The total enrollment falls right at the average of the last five years. With an institution-wide focus on broadening global engagement launched a year ago, diversity at Hesston College is on the […]
Be Greater capital campaign secures challenge grant
This fall, Hesston College met the Mabee Foundation’s Challenge Grant, earning $750,000 and surpassing the $6 million mark for the Be Greater campaign. The college reached the goal for the grant two months ahead of the deadline, and is planning for groundbreaking in early December. The campaign will provide improvements and additions to nursing and […]
Faculty and staff appointments
The summer issue included a list of new faculty and staff joining this campus community, and the following joined since that time: Will Friesen, chemistry professor, holds a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry and mass spectrometry from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Tabor College (Hillsboro, Kan.). […]
Increased global engagement a campus priority
Caption: Laura Yeboah-Appiah ’20 (Kumasi, Ghana) talks to Dylan Slabach Brubaker ’19 about her home country at the Cultures Fair in October. Photo by Jaden Hostetter ’19. Just days before the official kick-off of the 2018-19 year, Hesston College unveiled a new campus feature. The Global Pathway – lightpole banners based on the flags of […]
To hope, creativity and new beginnings – president’s perspective
Summer on a college campus is quiet and the pace of day-to-day seems more relaxed, but at least at Hesston College, we’re still going strong wrapping up the year just ended and preparing for the new one to begin. I have completed my first academic year in this role, and it was a good year. […]
Be Greater capital campaign enters final stage
The Be Greater capital campaign seeks to improve Hesston College’s ability to nurture, serve and educate students, particularly those who participate in the college’s athletic program and those preparing for nursing careers. In May 2017, Hesston College announced a $6 million capital campaign that will address facility needs in the athletic and nursing programs. In […]
Additional fun
CJ (Unruh) Byler along with her husband, Billy, and daughter, Hazel, play a round of disc golf at Hesston College on the newly installed course in memory of her father, Doug. Courtesy photo. Open to both the Hesston College community and the wider community, a newly installed disc golf course on the Hesston College campus […]
Bringing alumni home
For 60 years, a decade’s worth of Hesston College nurses have been missing from the class records displayed in the nursing center. But soon the 73 nurses who did pre-nursing classes at Hesston College before finishing their nursing degrees at Kansas City (Mo.) General Hospital (KCGH) School of Nursing will be present among their fellow […]
Student profile: Mariana Martinez Hernandez ’19
Tegucigalpa, Honduras Major: Bible and religion In just one year, Mariana Martinez Hernandez has made a mark on the Hesston College campus. She has embraced the idea of the two-year advantage – that is, being involved in a variety of activities and exhibiting leadership potential as early as freshman year instead of waiting behind juniors […]
Alumna Profile: Ashley (Kaufman) ’04 Moore
Wichita, Kan. Career: Owner, event planner, designer and stylist at Events and Design by Ashley Becoming an entrepreneur “I never imagined I would be a wedding and events planner. I’ve always enjoyed designing and decorating, but I was studying broadcast journalism in college, so something like this was never part of my plan. But I […]
Student athletes honored as Athletes of the Year
by Matt Gerlach, sports information director Each spring, student-athletes, coaches and athletic staff gather to celebrate the year’s athletic achievements, including academic achievement, team success, individual accomplishment and the growth of student-athletes. This celebration also serves to announce and honor the male and female student-athletes chosen as Lark Athletes of the Year. The 2017-18 recipients […]
Athletics news updates
Student-athletes earn Academic All-American status Lark student-athletes were recognized as Academic All-Americans by the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) for the 2017-18 year. Named to the All-Academic First Team with a GPA of 4.0 were Jenna Boller (Kalona, Iowa), women’s soccer; Jade Gleason (Brush, Colo.), volleyball; Cal Hartley (Benton, Kan.), men’s basketball; Kylee Kasselman […]
Commencement 2018 photos
Hesston College graduates were sent on to their next chapter challenged to love with the radical love of Jesus at commencement exercises on May 13. Michelle Armster, M.Div., executive director of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Central States (North Newton, Kan.), delivered the commencement address, “What’s love got to do with it?” based on the college’s […]