About 20 Bluffton University students will either direct or perform in seven one-act plays during a One-Act Festival on campus April 1 and 2. Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. both nights in College Hall’s Ramseyer Auditorium; general-admission tickets will be $3 at the door.
Award-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson, guest author at Bluffton University’s 30th annual English Festival on April 1, will also speak at the weekly campus forum that Tuesday, beginning at 11 a.m. in Founders Hall.
In “Writing Black, Writing Appalachian”—which is free and open to the public—the Kentucky-based fiction writer and poet will discuss growing up African-American in Appalachia and the importance of place in her writing. She will read from her work as well.
Dr. Adam Schattschneider, professor of music at Bluffton University, will discuss several projects he undertook during a 2012-13 sabbatical at a March 28 campus colloquium.
His presentation, “Woodwinds and the World Wide Web,” is free and open to the public beginning at 4 p.m. that Friday in Yoder Recital Hall.
The Christian story isn’t about collecting the right set of beliefs, or obeying God’s “do’s and don’ts,” or trying to be a “good person,” an Oregon pastor told a Bluffton University audience March 18.
Instead, said Meghan Good, it has to do with turning around and seeing who’s always there.
Business and organizational personnel who want to develop their leadership skills, enhance productivity and increase profits while contributing to the common good now have the chance to enroll in an MBA program like no other.
Three institutions affiliated with the Mennonite Education Agency—Bluffton University, Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia and Goshen (Ind.) College—have joined forces to launch “The Collaborative MBA” to shape transformative leaders.
A wild pitch with the bags full of Beavers in the bottom of the ninth sent the Bluffton faithful into a frenzy as the home team came all the way back from an 8-4 deficit to cap an 11-10 victory over Albion College on a cold Thursday, March 20. Bluffton improved to 7-4 following its fifth consecutive victory, while the Britons dipped to 4-6 on the season.
