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The Race of His Life
Office of University Communications
It was 1964 and a young African American named George Surratt was determined to beat the odds. There had never been a black male to attend Gardner-Webb Junior College, but his dream was bigger than historical precedent. It was bigger even than the financial and familial circumstances that turned Surratt’s sprint through college into a marathon.
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Gardner-Webb’s Jessica Greer Gets “Tough” with Inmates
Office of University Communications
Jessica Greer, a marketing major and biblical studies minor, likes to sing and play the guitar. And she loves to go to prison. During her freshman year, Jessica learned about Gardner-Webb’s outreach to Livesay Correctional Institution, a minimum-security prison in Spartanburg, S.C., while attending a chapel service on campus.
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Gardner-Webb University to Host NEEDTOBREATHE in Concert
Office of University Communications
Thanks to the passion, ingenuity and relentlessness of a group of Gardner-Webb students, Atlantic Records recording artists, NEEDTOBREATHE will be appearing at the Boiling Springs, N.C. campus. The concert is scheduled for Saturday, April 28 in the Paul Porter Arena, located in the Lutz-Yelton Convocation Center. Ben Rector is scheduled to open the show at 7 p.m
Youtube: NEEDTOBREATHE - Something Beautiful (Official Video)
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Italian Mandolinist Matteo Bevilacqua to Perform at GWU
Office of University Communications
The Gardner-Webb University School of Performing and Visual Arts is pleased to present Italian Mandolinist Matteo Bevilacqua on Tuesday, Jan. 31 at 8 p.m. in Blanton Auditorium. The concert is free to the public. Karen Hite Jacob will be accompanying Bevilacqua on the harpsichord and piano. Bevilacqua and Jacob will perform a variety of mandolin selections spanning nearly 300 years of music.
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Gardner-Webb Alumna Takes Game Show for a Spin
Office of University Communications
Like many Americans, Gardner-Webb alumna Kendra Hauser (’11) admits she is a “game show junky.” For years, she says, she and her mother have spent quality time with the Game Show Network, answering “Jeopardy” questions and solving “Lingo” word puzzles, often working crossword puzzles or word-search games in their laps all the while. So it’s no surprise that Hauser’s bucket list included “Win ‘Wheel of Fortune,’” or that she joined the “Wheel Watchers Club” when she turned 18.
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Gardner-Webb Mourns the Loss of Loving Student Ariane Noelle Patterson Dead at 21
Office of University Communications
It has been a challenging week for many friends and family members of Ariane Patterson. The Gardner-Webb religious studies major was celebrating her 21st birthday on Jan. 17 when she collapsed in class, and was later pronounced dead at the hospital. Her friends say she had an “outrageous love for Christ and people,” and that “her beautiful smile was as infectious as her loving spirit.”
Youtube: Ariane Patterson Tribute Video R.I.P. - Darelle Dupree Dove
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Gardner-Webb Students Attend Forum Discussing Media and Presidential Campaign Coverage
Office of University Communications
Students from GWU’s political science department got the chance to attend a panel discussion entitled “The Evolving Media Coverage of the Presidential Campaign” at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C. Panelists included Chuck Todd of NBC and Steve Brusk from CNN. The event was part of a consortium involving universities and colleges in the region as a means for students to become academically focused on the political process and to promote civic engagement.
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Civil Rights Champion Becomes Ambassador for Love and Hope
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb University devotes a January Dimensions program each year to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy of love and reconciliation. That legacy was, perhaps, never better honored at Gardner-Webb than this month, when Carolyn McKinstry, a native of Birgmingham, Ala., and a veteran of that city’s tumultuous Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, shared her testimony with the Gardner-Webb student body. A lifelong member of Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, McKinstry was present on Sept. 15, 1963, when white racists bombed the Church, killing four of her friends.
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Gardner-Webb Students to Participate in Discussions of Media and Politics
Office of University Communications
Just days before South Carolina’s GOP presidential primary, a Gardner-Webb government class will travel to Winthrop University to attend a panel discussion on media coverage of the presidential campaign, led by three of the nation’s leading political news analysts. On Jan. 19, NBC’s Chuck Todd, CNN’s Steve Brusk, and Steve Brook of Columbia’s The State newspaper will share their unique insight on “The Evolving Media Coverage of the Presidential Campaign” in an hour-long roundtable discussion beginning at 11 a.m. in the Richardson Ballroom of Winthrop’s DiGiorgio Campus Center. The event is free and open to the public.
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Key Voice for Religious Liberty in Washington to Speak at Gardner-Webb University
Office of University Communications
A leading voice on issues of national religious liberty in Washington, D.C., will give a distinguished lecture titled “Religion, the Presidency, the Election” at Gardner-Webb University on Monday, Jan. 30 at 7:00 p.m. in Blanton Auditorium, located inside Hamrick Hall. The event is sponsored by GWU’s Life of the Scholar (LOTS) program. K. Hollyn Hollman is the general counsel for the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC) in Washington.
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Gardner-Webb Mission Team to Host Zumba Fitness Fundraiser
Office of University Communications
A Gardner-Webb University mission team will host a Zumba Fitness® Party fundraiser on Saturday, Jan. 21 at the Shelby City Park gymnasium to raise support for its trip to Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Registration starts at 9:30 a.m., and the event will last from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. No previous Zumba® experience is necessary, though participants must be at least 12 years old.
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The Hunger Games Extras Helping Ease Hunger Pains!
Office of University Communications
Tona Dahlquist, Extras Casting Coordinator for The Hunger Games, along with featured Extras from the film will be holding events on Friday February 10Th & Saturday February 11th in hopes of doing just that…easing hunger pains. Canned or Non – Perishable Food Items will be collected. The donated food will help fight hunger in Cleveland County. Donations will go to: The Senior Center Food Pantry, Bliss Center in Lawndale Food Pantry and Kings Mountain Crisis Ministry as part of the “A Community Read of The Hunger Games, READ –UNITE –SURVIVE” project.
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Gardner-Webb’s Online Graduate Business Program Ranked Nation’s Best for Student Services and Technology
Office of University Communications
The U.S. News released today its rankings of America’s Top Online Education Programs for 2012, naming Gardner-Webb University’s Online Graduate Program in Business first in the nation among 161 college and university business programs in the “Student Services and Technology” category. The GWU Business Program also ranked 15th in “Faculty Credentials and Training,” 27th in “Teaching Practices and Student Engagement,” and was one of 14 institutions to make the honor roll for Master’s Programs in Graduate Business in this year’s report. The rankings are based on points earned from institutions’ responses to survey indicator questions related to each category.
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GWU Announces Spring 2012 Fine Arts Calendar
Office of University Communications
The Gardner-Webb School of Performing and Visual Arts is proud to announce its Spring 2012 fine arts events schedule. The community is invited to enjoy each of these concerts, recitals, plays and exhibits. More information about these events will be published as the dates approach.
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Gardner-Webb to Host Site Review for DNP Program Accreditation
Office of University Communications
The Gardner-Webb University School of Nursing will host a site review for the initial accreditation of its Clinical Doctorate Nursing Program (DNP) on Wednesday, Feb. 15 from 9-10 AM in the McCullough Grindstaff Conference Room, located inside Hamrick Hall. The community is invited to enjoy light refreshments and share their experiences with Gardner-Webb’s nursing programs and its graduates. The DNP Program is seeking accreditation through the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission, Inc. (NLNAC), which has accredited each of the School’s other professional nursing programs.
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Gardner-Webb President Elected to Board of Trustees for SACS Commission on Colleges
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb University President Dr. Frank Bonner was recently elected to the Board of Trustees for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) Commission on Colleges. The Commission is the regional accrediting body for approximately 800 higher education degree-granting institutions in the Southern states. Bonner’s term begins January 2012 and concludes December 31, 2014.
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Student Center, Science Wing Set to Open in 2012
Office of University Communications
Rarely has Gardner-Webb looked forward to the New Year with more excitement than this winter, as the University anticipates opening, in the fall of 2012, the long-awaited Tucker Student Center and the new science research wing. The buildings represent the culmination of the University’s “Higher Ground Campaign,” and they manifest the generous and continued support of the University’s most faithful friends and donors. As GWU President Dr. Frank Bonner says, when it opens, the Tucker Student Center will be “the single-most impressive and most transformational building ever built on Gardner-Webb’s campus.”
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GWU Honors its Presidential Societies
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb University’s Office of Advancement recently hosted its inaugural Presidential Societies Dinner to recognize the outstanding generosity of the University’s most faithful supporters—the members of its six Presidential Societies. Membership in the Societies is reserved only for those donors who have given $25,000 or more to bolster the strategic plan, the mission, and the students of Gardner-Webb University. “This first annual event was simply one way to express our sincere appreciation to many of our most loyal and committed supporters,” said Monte Walker, vice president for advancement at Gardner-Webb.
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Mark Wood, Formerly of Trans Siberian Orchestra, to Conduct Area High School Concert
Office of University Communications
Hundreds of area high school musicians will enjoy a unique experience when Mark Wood, formerly of the Trans Siberian Orchestra, returns to Cleveland County to lead area high school orchestras and choruses in a concert performance on Friday, Dec. 16 at 8:00 p.m. at Gardner-Webb University’s Paul Porter Arena. Tickets are $15 at the door or $10 online by visiting etix.com and entering “Mark Wood” in the search bar. The performance is a part of Wood’s “Electrify Your Strings” program, an alternative music curriculum program that has bolstered music and arts initiatives at select high schools across the nation.
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GWU Instructor Participates in Exploratory Conversations between Baptists and Orthodox
Office of University Communications
Teams representing the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople recently held exploratory talks on the island of Crete that could lead to formal international dialogue between Baptist and Orthodox Christians. Dr. Steven Harmon, adjunct instructor of Christian theology at Gardner-Webb, was part of the three-person BWA delegation. The two teams reviewed earlier discussions between the BWA and the Orthodox Church and proposed that any international dialogue should strive to increase mutual understanding and knowledge of one another, to explore a common Christian witness between the churches, and to encourage cooperative action on ethical and moral issues.
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Gardner-Webb’s Namesake, Fay Webb Gardner, is the Subject of a New Biography
Office of University Communications
A Gardner-Webb professor is conducting research for a new biography of Fay Lamar Webb Gardner, to whom Gardner-Webb University owes its name and its existence – and he wants the community’s help. The author, GWU communications professor Dr. Joseph Webb, is currently pouring through the extensive and previously unexamined collection of Webb Gardner’s papers in the Dover Memorial Library archives. “Fay lived to be 82, and she was a prolific writer and an extensive record keeper,” Webb said.
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Interview with Dr. Harmon
Office of University Communications
The following “sound-bytes” were taken from interviews with Dr. Harmon in January and November of 2011: On the definition and purpose of “ecumenical theology”… “Ecumenical theology is a sub-discipline within the larger discipline of theology that focuses on questions that affect the quest for more visible forms of unity between the different Christian churches that are currently divided.
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Fall 2011 Exam Schedule and Spring 2012 Key Dates
Office of University Communications
The Fall 2011 semester is winding to a close, and the Spring 2012 term is nearly set to begin. Listed below are the Fall 2011 Day Program exam schedule and several important upcoming dates on the Gardner-Webb academic calendar. Also, check out the Spring 2012 class schedule for more specific information regarding the semester’s course offerings.
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Gardner-Webb Fall Commencement Set for Dec. 19
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb University will welcome the families and friends of more than 340 graduates to campus on Monday, Dec. 19 for the University’s 2011 fall commencement exercises. The ceremony takes place in Paul Porter Arena, inside the Lutz-Yelton Convocation Center, and begins at 10 a.m. Seating in Paul Porter Arena is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Gardner-Webb Presents the 2011 Advent Devotional Book
Frank Bonner and Office of University Communications
Dear Gardner-Webb Family and Friends, It is my pleasure to bring you Christmas greetings, and to present Gardner-Webb University’s 2011 Advent Devotional Book. The season of Advent is a very special time for Christians, a time to anticipate the coming of Emmanuel and the emergence of His grace in our lives.
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