Goodbye Faith Hall, Hello New Dorm
Cedarville’s decision to close Faith Hall and replace it with a new women’s dorm will not destroy Faith’s legacy but rather continue it.
Cedarville University plans to tear down Faith, a women’s dorm established in 1957 from old army barracks, by the beginning of next school year. Rodney Johnson, associate vice president for operations, said the building has lived past its usefulness and cannot be renovated.
“Renovation would basically mean taking [Faith] down and starting ...
Ready, Set, Glow
The Integrated Business Core began the weekend at Cedarville with "Ready, Set, Glow." The glowing themed event was Saturday, Oct. 22 from 7:30 pm to almost midnight. Students competed in campus golf, bubble soccer and Spikeball. Participants could also enjoy a DTR comedy show.
Preparing for Reaccreditation a Huge Task
With the school’s 10-year accreditation status coming to a close this year, Cedarville faculty and staff are working together to prepare for re-accreditation.
This semester, on Oct. 10 and 11, reviewers will arrive on campus from the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), the nationally recognized major regional accreditor for Cedarville and other schools in the area, including Ohio State University.
These reviewers will examine the campus and make sure Cedarville meets the standards set by the ...
CU Students for Life Protests Pro-Choice Rally in Cleveland
(photos by Naomi Harward)
A group of students from Cedarville’s Students for Life (SFL) organization traveled to Cleveland, Ohio on Saturday, Sept. 10 to protest a pro-choice promotional concert sponsored by the All-Access Coalition.
The Coalition advocates for unrestricted abortion being made available to all American women. For this free concert in Cleveland, the Coalition recruited several celebrities to perform at and to host the event (including the singer Sia) in order to ...
Cedarville Partners with Answers in Genesis for Creation Conference
Cedarville University is partnering with Answers in Genesis (AIG) on Sept. 15-16, 2016 to present a conference highlighting the importance of a biblical worldview concerning creation.
CU President Thomas White said both groups hope the Creation Conference will show their shared commitment to the authority of scripture, particularly in regards to man and the origin of the universe.
“I suspect this issue will be one of the major worldview challenges Cedarville graduates will face,” ...
Cedarville welcomes Grace Norman home from Rio
Freshman Grace Norman greets family, friends and community coming home from the Rio paralympics. Norman won gold in the triathalon and bronze in the 400m.
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Additional photos of Norman's homecoming
Meet Jennifer Taggart, Cedars’ new editor-in-chief
Jennifer Taggart is a senior journalism major from northern Ohio. She first came to Cedarville as a high school student for a summer journalism camp. The past three years, she has worked as a reporter and section editor for Cedars. Watch this video for her personal story. It was produced near the end of last school year by freshman journalism student Keegan D'Alfonso, who is serving as the off-campus news editor this year.
Born Out of the Fires of Failure
Andy Graff hadn’t written one creative sentence since editors rejected the novel he’d spent seven years writing. Two years had passed since the manuscript he’d labored over through college, grad school and beyond found a home in his dresser drawer, never to be read by anyone else.
So he sat in front of his fireplace on a Wisconsin winter night, feeding old college papers, notes and syllabi to the flames. As he went through the boxes, throwing the reminders of his college ...
Cedarville to Launch Cybersecurity Track in Fall 2016
Cedarville University’s School of Engineering and Computer Science is launching a cybersecurity track within the computer science major for the 2016-2017 school year. In a post-Edward Snowden, Apple v. FBI age, cybersecurity is in the news nearly every day, and Cedarville's program will allow its students to be competitive in the computer science field.
According to Dark Reading, a cybersecurity news site, there is a lack in cybersecurity education. Of the top 10 computer science and ...
Ethics and the Pharmacist
Controversial issues such as late-term abortion, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide and contraceptives have dominated the news in recent month. Because of their controversial and difficult nature, these issues represent the need for the study of ethics.
Merriam-Webster defines ethics as “an area of study that deals with ideas about what is good and bad behavior; a branch of philosophy dealing with what is morally right and wrong.” Because ethics and healthcare are closely tied, ...
