2026 Civic engagement theme: Opportunities and challenges created by artificial intelligence
MEDIA RELEASE__Bluffton University officially welcomed its 127th class during Opening Convocation Tuesday, Aug. 18. First-year and transfer students were formally welcomed to the university as Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs Dr. Mary Robinson read their names.
MEDIA RELEASE__Bluffton University will examine the challenges and opportunities surrounding artificial intelligence during its Civic Engagement Theme Panel, “Truth and Integrity in an Age of AI,” at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 1, in Yoder Recital Hall.
MEDIA RELEASE__Bluffton University President Dr. Alex Sider will present the State of the University Address at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 25, in Yoder Recital Hall.
Sider's presentation, “Reinvest, Reinvent, Reimagine,” will outline Bluffton's emerging strategic plan and provide a look at the university's vision and priorities for the future.
The address will highlight the ways Bluffton is building on its strengths while considering new opportunities to serve students and strengthen the university for generations to come.
MEDIA RELEASE__Bluffton University will open the fall semester with its Opening Convocation at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18, in Yoder Recital Hall. Dr. Mark Bourassa, dean of students, Bluffton University, will present “The Challenge of Integrity in a Changing World.”
Bourassa will explore the importance of integrity in a rapidly changing world and challenge Bluffton students to consider how their values, decisions and actions shape the communities around them.
MEDIA RELEASE__Kirra Heavilin, an incoming student at Bluffton University, has been awarded the university's Austin E. Knowlton Memorial Scholarship, valued at more than $16,000 over four years.
MEDIA RELEASE__Bluffton University is pleased to announce it has received a $65,000 Vocation Across the Academy Grant from the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE). The purpose of this grant is to support vocational exploration to help students develop more effective links between a philosophy of life and preparing for a career, and to include more faculty and students in the work of vocational exploration and discernment.
