CU Celebrates Its 120th Commencement
Cedarville University will celebrate its 120th annual commencement May 7, 2016, as several hundred students graduate with bachelor's, master's and, for the first time, doctorate degrees. However, the university – known as Cedarville College at the time – had just five students in its first graduating class in June 1887. Though Cedarville has grown greatly in the nearly 130 years since its founding, the path from charter to college to university has not been without its challenges.
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CU Launches Divinity, Ministry Programs
Cedarville University is accepting students into its new Master of Divinity degree program for the fall 2016 semester. Additionally, Cedarville's Master of Ministry degree program is also now available completely online.
The new Master of Divinity program includes 98 credit hours and is being offered both as a traditional stand-alone, three-year program and as an accelerated five-year program for incoming freshmen and current sophomores in the Bible program.
Students in the accelera...
Cedars Wins 10 Regional SPJ Awards
Cedars staff members won 10 awards for their work during 2015 in the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence regional competition. The awards were presented April 2 at the regional conference in Cincinnati.
Photographer Campbell Bortel placed first in two categories, sports photography and general news photography.
Sports editor Jon Gallardo won the sports writing category for a feature story about Justice Montgomery, a transfer athlete from a Division I school. Just ...
School of Pharmacy Serves the Underserved
Members of Cedarville’s School of Pharmacy are partnering with ministry initiatives in Belize and Ghana to serve the underserved. Cedarville students from all academic disciplines are encouraged to integrate their academic studies with mission work by the university’s biblical foundation and gospel focus, and pharmacy students and faculty are serving via medicine.
Tiffany Zehel is a third-year professional pharmacy student in the School of Pharmacy at Cedarville. Zehel, who grew up in ...
Zika Bites Latin America
President Obama's Feb. 22 statement asking Congress for $1.9 billion to fight the Zika Virus, a virus spread by infected mosquitos and linked to birth defects in Brazil, has not yet been fulfilled though The World Health Organization (WHO) declared Zika a global “public emergency” on Feb. 1. Congress adjourned for its spring break without approving the funds and won't meet again until the first part of April, STAT News said March 23. The WHO said it's now running out of funds to respond ...
Strength in Suffering
College students often wonder what the future will hold for them – from the job they will find to the place where they will live or the family they will have. For Michael and Julia (Neal) Gardner, this future has been nothing like they expected.
Michael graduated from Cedarville University in 2014 with a degree in mechanical engineering, and he and Julia got married in the summer of 2015.
Julia started school at Cedarville in 2012 as a pharmacy student, but she is not currently enrolled. ...
Cedarville Politics Ramp up for Election Season
The campaigns, debates, primaries and caucuses across America are clear signs that election season is here – and not just any election, but a presidential election.
Cedarville students are experiencing some of this hype as two student organizations, Turning Point USA and College Republicans, work tirelessly to bring politics into the spotlight on campus.
The Cedarville chapter of Turning Point USA was named “Chapter of the Month” by Turning Point USA for February 2016. The organization ...
Resound’s Longest-Running Show Keeps Purpose, Changes Hosts
Resound Radio’s afternoon show, Amp Up, had a complete cast change this semester when juniors Amy Radwanski and David Long took over as the new co-hosts for the show.
Former co-hosts Angela Schweinitz and Stephen Green selected Radwanski and Long to replace them last semester. Schweinitz graduated in December 2015, and Green is taking a break from college. While the time and purpose of the show, which is to motivate the student body, will stay the same, Radwanski and Long have changed the ...
Who’s at (De)fault Here?
Graduation day for college students may be filled with nerves, caps and gowns, but the hope of a bright future is not the only thing about which graduates worry.
The average 2016 college graduate will leave with some damage to his or her wallet, especially when considering that the average 2015 graduate left with $35,000 in student loan debt. The class of 2015 has the highest percentage of students, at 71 percent, to have taken out student loans to date.
However, for various reasons, not all ...
