Lauran Brown ’18 of Norwalk, admits she wasn’t the best student in high school. “I did my school work, but I didn’t really care as much as I should have,” said Brown.
However, her attitude changed when she became an accounting major at Bluffton University. Brown recently earned both the Certified Management Accountant Scholarship and the Roger CPA Review scholarship.
Bluffton University has announced the dean’s list for the spring term. Students with a GPA of 3.6 or higher are eligible for the dean’s list. Undergraduate students from your area named to the dean’s list are:
Clay Atkins Raquel Bruno Aranibar Melissa Graham Justin Weaver Olivia Whitaker
Students with a cumulative GPA of at least 3.75 based on 20 semester hours received dean’s list with distinction for continued high achievement.
Two years after her oldest daughter, Zoey Miller ’14, walked across the stage of Bluffton University’s Sommer Center to receive her bachelor’s degree, Robin Pohl followed in her daughter’s footsteps.
Pohl, a 2016 degree-completion graduate, came to Bluffton to earn her bachelor’s in organizational management as a working adult.
“I promised myself once Zoey and her sister, Quincy, were established and were certain to be college graduates, then it could be my turn,” said Pohl, an executive assistant at The Ohio State University Lima.
Morgan Campbell, a Bluffton University senior and food and nutrition major from Hillsboro, has four brothers.
She knows first-hand just how much they eat and just how picky they can be about what they eat.
So when choosing a semester-long topic to develop for the class Nutrition Education and Communication, the choice was simple. Campbell answered the question “Can family meals provide the best of both worlds: low cost and healthy?” The answer she discovered - yes!
At the June meeting of the Bluffton University Board of Trustees, board chair Kent Yoder announced that Dr. James M. Harder, Bluffton’s ninth president, has shared his plans to retire on June 30, 2018, after serving in that role for 12 years.
“President Harder is a servant leader who faithfully continues to carry Bluffton University into the 21st century during a time of significant change in higher education,” said Yoder.
Summer camps in three sports for youth are planned at Bluffton University. Camps are in volleyball, softball and baseball
Volleyball
The Bluffton University volleyball team will host several skills camps in June.
A kindergarten through fifth grade camp from 10 a.m. – noon on Wednesday, June 21. This camp will introduce basic volleyball skills while incorporating fund volleyball activities. The registration fee is $26.50.
