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University homecoming itinerary

Posted by Staff on October 7, 2022 - 8:24am

Beaver Homecoming and Alumni Weekend
Bluffton University will celebrate Homecoming and Alumni Weekend 2022 on Friday, Oct. 14-Sunday, Oct. 16. 

Homecoming and Alumni Weekend events will be open to all alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends of the university. Along with cheering on the Beavers football, golf and soccer teams, the university will host alumni gatherings, campus tours, food trucks, Beaver Tail-Gating and more.

Tickets for adults are $25 and tickets for children ages 5-17 are $15. Students and faculty/staff with current Bluffton ID will have access to Saturday’s activities for free.  

Registration includes a ticket to the football game on Saturday, a Homecoming 2022 t-shirt and a meal for Saturday’s Food Truck Extravaganza. Registration is required for all events.

Register in advance at www.bluffton.edu/homecoming 

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Graduate enrollment grows at Bluffton University, total enrollment steady

Posted by Staff on October 4, 2022 - 7:01am

Bluffton University has reported that after three years of increases, the number of first-year, full-time students is slightly down for the 2022-23 academic year. The university’s number of full-time equivalent students, including undergraduate and graduate programs is steady at 730.

On the graduate side, the total number of full-time students is increasing which includes students completing dietetic internship, business or education classes. That’s up 44 percent from the previous year. It’s also the largest number of graduate students in the last three years.

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Student presentations on cross-cultural experiences

Posted by Staff on October 3, 2022 - 1:37pm

Bluffton University students who participated in short-term cross-cultural experiences last spring will speak during Forum at 11 a.m.  and 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 4, in Yoder Recital Hall. The presentations are free and open to the public.

Students who traveled to Czech Republic, the Southwest Native Nations, and Washington, D.C., will speak during the morning session while students who explored Guatemala, Kentucky, Korea and South Texas will present in the evening.

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Albrecht Gallery reception Oct. 15: Baumgartner, Fultz, Steiner, Sugden

Posted by Staff on October 3, 2022 - 8:25am

Bluffton University will host an artist reception featuring Andreas Baumgartner ’08, Jim Fultz, T.R. Steiner and Philip Sugden from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Oct. 15, in the Grace Albrecht Gallery of Sauder Visual Arts Center. The event is part of Bluffton’s Homecoming and Alumni Weekend 2022 activities. The artists will share about their work and answer questions at 10:30 a.m.

The exhibit featuring their recent work is currently on display and will be open to the public through Oct. 15.

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Forum presentation considers the civil rights movement, past and present

Posted by Paula Scott on October 1, 2022 - 11:06am

By Paula Scott

Dr. Todd Allen, vice-president for diversity affairs at Messiah University in Pennsylvania, appeared in Bluffton University’s Forum series on September 27 with a program titled “On the Road to Freedom: Moving the Race Conversation Forward.”

Allen was there, in part, to pitch a May 2023 travel opportunity for Bluffton students that includes a three-week, charter-bus tour of key civil rights destinations such as the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, the Whitney Plantation near New Orleans and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson.

Before the presentation, Allen told the Icon that he would explore how civil rights tourism can be “a vehicle for advancing conversations about race and justice and reconciliation.” Through The Common Ground Project he has led such tours for 21 years. “It’s a chance to engage this living history in a way that often isn’t done in our classrooms. It has great relevance for what we’re experiencing as a nation today.”

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Water-based instruments at Yoder Recital Hall October 31

Posted by Staff on September 29, 2022 - 8:05am

CORDIS: Condition Blue The Acoustics of Aquatics

This show features renowned contemporary ensemble CORDIS, in partnership with National Geographic Society, performing on the world's most creative collection of traditional and water-based instruments.

Free for Bluffton University students with the passcode.

Monday, October 31, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.

$0.00 - $10.00

Yoder Recital Hall, Bluffton University

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