Appreciate the community: Ashley Armstrong
By Anna Harman
Ashley Armstrong is a Senior Music Education major at Cedarville University. She’s from Wooster, Ohio, where she lives on her family's farm with her four younger siblings. Armstrong participated in 4-H, the school marching band, and her church’s youth group.
“I am so thankful to be raised in a Christian family and to have had the opportunity to accept salvation at a young age. God really is the giver of all good gifts,” Armstrong said.
One gift ...
Cedarville University’s Biblical Approach to Title IX
By Noah Tang
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and Cedarville University observes it as an effort to normalize “consistent respect” for the rights and dignity of others.
Title IX is a landmark statute passed in 1972 that affects every American who is involved in higher education. It has been the law of the land for five decades, benefiting many students over the years even as its role and implementation have evolved. Among these changes have been President Obama’s ...
Molecular Biology Students Start “Unspoken Undergrad” Podcast to Empower Fellow Premeds
By Luke Wiley
In a community filled with high-achievers, overbearing workloads, and vice-like pressures for perfection, undergraduate students on premedical tracks stand in a unique liminal season of life with a storm of unique issues. Students in this phase of life often feel they have to put their heads down and pay their academic dues for the next few years as they prepare for med school and a prestigious career far beyond.
Having spent years wrestling through a number of ...
New mission trip seeks to put Upstate New York on Cedarville’s church planting map
By Avonlea Brown
This year, seven new locations joined the list of Global Outreach mission trips at Cedarville University, making a record number of options available to students. One of the recent additions is a student-led trip over Fall Break to Syracuse, New York.
Andrew Krom and Elijah Elmer, two MDiv majors, both grew up in Upstate New York and see a need for church planting in the area. As two people who felt called to domestic ministry, Krom and Elmer wanted to share the word ...
Meet the students who help make alumni events on campus possible
By Avonlea Brown
Homecoming is one of the most prodigious celebrations on campus with over 50 events in the span of two days. To make the weekend run smoothly, the Alumni Engagement office teams up with a small community of students who make connecting past and current students possible.
The Student Alumni Association(SAA), is a group of 12 to 15 students who are elected to serve as liaisons between alumni and students. SAA inducts students based on recommendations from fellow SAA ...
Cedarville’s enduring legacy: Three generations, 50 years, one family
By Maggie Fipps
Legacy.
It is a word thrown around a lot on weekends like Homecoming.
Is Cedarville simply a name on a degree, written in bold cursive? Does it truly ingrain itself in a person or a family? What about people who meet their spouses at Cedarville? What is the difference in their future family, their future children and grandchildren?
If these questions seem too weighty and overblown, you are probably right. For most, Cedarville will be a rest stop on their ...
Not About the Merch, but the Message: IBC Students Put New Spin on Old Business
By Marielle Payton
Every year, Cedarville University students from the Robert W. Plaster School of Business are given the opportunity to create or manage a business through the Integrated Business Core (IBC). This experience, catered towards students interested in entrepreneurship, enables them to hone their skills with real-life experience.
This year, Proclaim the Name, a previous IBC business focused on evangelistic streetwear, is being relaunched with a new focus. The team behind the ...
Student-led business Crowned Chains expands to Cedarville and beyond
By Caroline Stanton
When students returned to campus this fall, a new trend immediately began with the launch of the student-run business Crowned Chains. Students all around campus began sporting fashionable metal-clasp chains or wearing merch with the company name and logo. Crowned Chains has taken over Cedarville and the jewelry world beyond by storm.
Crowned Chains offers two chains made out of a solid black, gold, or silver beaded band that can come with or without a pendant. ...
UpWrite provides Cedarville students with the last notebook they will ever need
By Avonlea Brown
In 2022, Americans spent $36.9 billion on school supplies. The increasing cost of school supplies and lack of products have now led to a demand for reusable school supplies that students can keep for multiple uses.
Within Cedarville University’s Plaster School of Business, a group of five students created a company that sought to change the one-and-done attitude toward school supplies. Johnny Martone, Ashley Hanel, Kyle Stewart, Jacob Franzen and Luke Bowers ...
Didasko aims to incorporate faith and fun through a biblically-rooted card game
By: Avonlea Brown
The card game Didasko made a soft launch at Cedarville University on September 14. A team of eight students created the game with the goal of “drawing Christian families together and building a deeper appreciation for God’s Word.”
Carson Kirby, Janie Walenda, Abigail Francis, Joel Farnsworth, Eric Reiff, Gladys Cerrato, and Hannah Norefleet joined up through the Integrated Business Core, or IBC. The IBC is a 12-credit practicum course that gives studen...
