“This is an opportunity for students to become qualified teachers in three years and teachers with additional credentials who are highly valued in a school system in four years.”
Bluffton University is now offering a path for qualified students interested in teaching to earn a bachelor’s and master’s degree in four years.
The 3+1 Educator Preparation Program allows early childhood education majors or intervention specialist majors to obtain their teaching licensure and complete their bachelor’s degree in three years.
Dr. Alex Sider, professor of religion at Bluffton University, will present the colloquium, “‘Face to Face:’ Disability in Four Difficult Biblical Texts,” at 4 p.m. on March 16 in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall.
For many Christians, according to Sider, the Bible promotes the radical inclusion of marginalized people in community. However, during this colloquium, Sider will explain how “biblical texts were written in contexts—racism, ethnocentrism, classism and sexism—that created and reinforced marginalization.”
Kenneth Beeker, Bluffton Uniiversity senior communication and history double major, will present “Deconstructing David Barton: Possession and Particularity in Partisan History Writing” during an 11 a.m. Forum on Tuesday, March 13, in the Reading Room of Musselman Library.
Beeker, a native of McComb, will share on his departmental honors project which looked at a rhetorical analysis of the revisionist historical writing of David Barton.
Over the last seven years, the Bluffton University baseball team has raised more than $50,000 for pediatric cancer research and patient care through the non-profit Vs. Cancer.
