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Hesston College students arrived on campus for Opening Weekend of the 2013-14 year Aug. 16. Several events were part of the annual Opening Weekend schedule, including Opening Celebration, an ice cream social, parents’ breakfast and orientation, new student orientation, freshman games, volleyball and men’s and women’s soccer scrimmages, a campus-wide picnic and Mod Olympics. […]
Here’s a quick summary of some of the highlights from the week: Sunday evening, Admissions staff connected with 250 youth at Trinity Mennonite (Glendale) and Michele Hershberger was the keynote speaker for the event Hesston College gave away about 1,000 T-shirts to youth as they arrived and checked into their youth hotel lobbies as people […]
Commencement speaker J. Nelson Kraybill, president-elect of Mennonite World Conference, filled graduates with hope for a world filled with shalom as they departed Hesston College during the May 5 ceremony. Kraybill referenced the apostle Paul’s words to the church in Ephesians 1:16-23 to encourage the graduates that there is hope in the world and God […]
Hesston College student artwork is on display in three locations from now until May 3. The student work features a variety of art media from both fall and spring semesters of the 2012-13 academic year. All exhibits are free and open to the public. The college’s annual juried student art show is on display in […]
The Hesston College Bel Canto Singers will celebrate 30 years of making music with a May tour to the east coast May 6 to 16, highlighted by a four-day New York City excursion. While in New York, the choir will participate in a Carnegie Hall performance and perform solo concerts at Manhattan Mennonite Fellowship and […]
A love for plants and an eye for the Kansas prairie’s beauty were the spark and vision for a treasured Hesston landmark that is left as Evie Dyck’s ongoing legacy with the Dyck Arboretum of the Plains. Evie passed away April 7, at the age of 88. The Dyck Arboretum was a wheat field on […]
More than 100 Hesston College students spent Wednesday night learning what it is like to live below the poverty line during a college-sponsored poverty simulation led by Harvey County Circles of Hope – Peace Connections in Newton, Kan. Circles of Hope works to develop resources, educate the community and inspire change in trying to eliminate […]
An increasing number of college students are not only learning that a transfer process is nothing to be feared, they are recognizing the benefits of starting one place and going another. Some college students fear transfer horror stories and worst-case scenarios like losing course credits, having to re-take classes and needing extra semesters to finish […]
Hesston College Aviation and Air Traffic Control students will fly high while planted firmly on the ground when they return from Christmas break in January. As part of the college’s Delivering the Promise capital campaign, Hesston College received a generous anonymous gift which helped to fund a Redbird MCX C182 G1000 GFC700 flight simulator. The […]
Hesston College’s results from the 2012 Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) are among the highest in the country and reinforce the college’s claim that Hesston is a great place for students to start their college career. The survey measures student perceptions of their engagement in their academic work in five key benchmark areas […]
It is not uncommon for people to discover new relatives at Hesston College. With ties to the Mennonite faith tradition and many of the students, faculty and staff coming from the same faith background, the branches of many family trees run all across campus. Sharon Cranford, however, did not expect to find any cousins at […]
Hesston College will host its 45th annual Thanksgiving Weekend: A Family Celebration Nov. 22 to 24. The public is invited to attend several events that have become an annual Hesston College tradition. The weekend lineup includes activities for all ages, including a traditional Thanksgiving meal, music concerts, a talent show, men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, […]
Equipping and empowering others through servant leadership in the church and in business was the theme of Hesston College’s 13th annual Anabaptist Vision and Discipleship Series Oct. 26 to 28. More than 130 church and business leaders gathered on the Hesston College campus for the weekend conference with the theme “Top-down Servant Leadership: Redefining Leadership […]
Turtle Island Quartet, a string quartet fusing the classical music tradition with contemporary American styles, will open the 31st year of the Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts Series at 3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 11, at Hesston Mennonite Church. Winner of the 2006 and 2008 Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album, Turtle Island has led the way in […]
During the first half of the semester, Hesston College students have been drawn in to the story of Enrique and his experience as an immigrant in “Enrique’s Journey” by Sonia Nazario. On Oct. 9, they listened, captivated by Nazario’s recounting of her hands-on research for the book when she spoke to the campus and community […]
