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GWU to Present Distinguished Tuba Player in Concert
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb University will host renowned tuba player and music educator John William Banther for a Distinguished Artist concert on Tuesday, April 7. The show is free, open to the public and will begin at 8 p.m. in Blanton Auditorium in GWU’s Hamrick Hall. Banther has performed opera, classical, rhythm and blues, Dixieland and beat-box tuba styles in North America, South America and in Europe.
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Pastors’ School Returns to Gardner-Webb May 25-27
Office of University Communications and Brooke Kelly
Gardner-Webb University is preparing for its 2015 Pastors’ School, a three-day educational retreat for pastors, and students of ministry and theology. This year’s program, set for May 25-27, features the theme, “Living as an apprentice of Jesus: What the church forgot to teach us.” “The Pastors’ School is designed for the busy pastor to offer moments of inspiration, fellowship, renewal, and rest,” shared Dr. Danny West, director of the GWU Doctor of Ministry Program and Ministry Leadership Development.
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Gardner-Webb School of Performing and Visual Arts Announces 2015 Undergraduate Exhibit
Office of University Communications
The Gardner-Webb University School of Performing and Visual Arts presents the 2015 Annual Undergraduate Art Exhibit showing in the Communication Studies Hall through April 7. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Various types of 2-D and 3-D artwork from undergraduate students who have taken art studio classes such as drawing I, painting, I, ceramics I, and printmaking will be on display during the department’s largest exhibit of the year.
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Gardner-Webb University Dimensions to Feature Evangelist from Clayton King Ministries
Office of University Communications and Brooke Kelly
Gardner-Webb University will host a Holy Week Service featuring speaker and evangelist Trey Bradley during the weekly Dimensions program on Tuesday, March 31. The event is free and open to the public. Bradley has worked in student ministry for several years, serves as a speaker with Clayton King Ministries and recently helped plant a church in Hendersonville, N.C.
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Gardner-Webb University Trumpet Ensemble Performs in Second Straight National Competition
Office of University Communications
People across the country are hearing about the growing success of Gardner-Webb University’s trumpet program. For the second straight year, GWU students delivered a strong performance in the semifinals of the National Trumpet Competition, held March 19-21. Hosted by Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pa., this year’s competition also included classes with master trumpet players and performances by groups like the “The President’s Own” U.S. Marine Band and the U.S. Army jazz band.
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Gardner-Webb Students Present Findings at Annual Conference
Office of University Communications
One dozen current Gardner-Webb University students recently presented a range of undergraduate research findings, and four of the GWU projects earned top awards at the Alpha Chi National Convention, held March 20-22 in Chicago. With the theme “Harmonious Hemispheres: The Nexus of Science and the Arts,” students were challenged to develop collaborative team presentations that would explore the intersection between science and art. Individual research presentations were also included as part of the annual national convention.
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Gardner-Webb Partners with Western Piedmont Community College
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb University announced it has formed a partnership with Western Piedmont Community College (WPCC) that will help students complete degrees in eight programs and provide GWU with improved facilities to offer academic and career services in the North Carolina foothills. Officials from Gardner-Webb and WPCC (Morganton, N.C.) formally signed an agreement March 19 to locate GWU’s Burke Campus at the community college. GWU previously operated a campus at the Old Rock School in Valdese.
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Gardner-Webb to Host Series of Events to Inspire Positive Social Change
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb University will spotlight global issues and feature people who are working to find solutions and change the world as Social Entrepreneurship Week returns to the campus March 22-26. A series of events are planned to help encourage the Gardner-Webb community to make a difference in the lives of others who are facing an array of challenges. “Social Entrepreneurship Week is an effort to inspire and educate a new generation of confident and competent problem-solvers at Gardner-Webb University,” shared Dr. Tom LeGrand, director of the GWU Center for Christian Ethics & Social Responsibility, one the week’s many sponsors.
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Gardner-Webb University Theatre Presents “The Music Man” March 26-28
Office of University Communications
The Gardner-Webb University Theatre Department will present “The Music Man” March 26-28 at 7:30 p.m. in the Dover Theatre, located inside the Lutz-Yelton Convocation Center (LYCC). Tickets are $14 for adults, $9 for senior adults and students of other schools, $4 for GWU faculty and staff and children under 12, and free for GWU students. Set in 1912, “The Music Man” follows a con man trying to start a boys’ band in River City, Iowa, under the pretense that he is a professor of music.
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Missionary to Speak at Gardner-Webb on March 24
Office of University Communications and Brooke Kelly
Missionary Jamie Wright will visit Gardner-Webb University on March 24 to share her diverse global experiences and her passion for encouraging people. Wright will speak at Dimensions at 9:25 a.m. in Paul Porter Arena, located inside the Lutz-Yelton Convocation Center (LYCC). The event is free and open to the public.
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Gardner-Webb to Offer Online Classes to Undergraduate Students this Summer
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb University will offer students an opportunity this summer to make progress on an undergraduate degree, without sacrificing a summer job or travel plans to take a seated college course. Several dozen GWU courses already offered online through the University’s Degree Completion Program (DCP) will also be available via the Internet for eligible traditional undergraduate students who attend Gardner-Webb and other institutions. Students enrolled at other colleges and universities may take GWU courses and transfer eligible credits back to their school.
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Southern Baptist Leader Offers Mental Health Hope During Visit to Gardner-Webb University
Office of University Communications
After Gardner-Webb University alumnus Dr. Frank Page lost his daughter to suicide, he discovered a calling to help save others who are battling mental health illnesses. Page, now president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) executive committee, visited Gardner-Webb on March 17 to encourage students, local ministers and community members who are dealing with their own psychological challenges and the trials of others. When his daughter, Melissa, took her own life in 2009, Page faced the immense grief that suicides cause for thousands of American families, marriages, churches and friends each year.
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Gardner-Webb Hosts Japanese Study Abroad Students
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb University welcomed four Japanese engineering students during a two-week visit to experience English, engineering and American culture. The study abroad visit was made possible through the University’s English as a Second Language program, facilitated by World Languages and Cultures Associate Professor Dr. Lorene Pagcaliwagan. The group consisted of three undergraduate students—Ryosuke Mori, Yoshitaka Toeda, and Kyouhei Miyama—and one graduate student, Hironori Sakamoto, from Chiba University in Chiba, Japan, a suburb of Tokyo.
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GWU’s Sport Management Degree Earns National Ranking
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb University offers the best bachelor’s degree in sport management in the Carolinas and one of the top 10 programs nationwide among institutions with fewer than 3,000 undergraduate students. Sports Management Degree Guide (sports-management-degrees.com), an online source for information on the field’s programs and careers, recently ranked Gardner-Webb No. 6 nationally in its “20 Great Small Colleges for a Bachelor’s Degree in Sports Management 2015.” GWU ranked ahead of other North Carolina institutions that made the top-20 list, including Catawba College (Salisbury, N.C.), Barton College (Wilson, N.C.), and Johnson C. Smith University (Charlotte, N.C.).
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Meet the Authors’ Book Signing to Feature Work of GWU Employees
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb University will host a book-signing event on Wednesday, March 25, for four faculty and staff members who published works. The event, scheduled from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Dover Memorial Library, will feature Dr. Scott Shauf, Dr. Donald Berry, Dr. Joseph Webb and Dr. Doug Bryan. Dr. Shauf, associate professor of religious Studies, recently published “The Divine Acts and Ancient Historiography.”
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The Call of the Wild
Office of University Communications and Niki Bliss-Carroll
He was sitting on the porch watching the sun set across shimmering waters and had just completed his boat patrol shift as a park ranger with the Corps of Engineers at Lake Hartwell, Ga. But something was wrong. A nagging feeling caused him to take a deep breath.
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Gardner-Webb Improves Transfer Process for Elementary Education Students
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb University and Cleveland Community College (CCC) have formed a partnership that will ease the transfer process for students who seek to complete an elementary education degree with coursework at both institutions. Officials for both schools signed an agreement to create a seamless track for students who begin their school-age education associate’s degree studies at CCC and complete them in an elementary education bachelor’s degree program at Gardner-Webb. The agreement, called Pathways to reference the structured path of study between the two schools, formalizes a degree partnership that already exists between GWU and CCC.
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Gardner-Webb’s Healthcare Management Bachelor’s Degree Earns National Ranking
Office of University Communications and Jill Blank
Gardner-Webb University recently earned national recognition as one of “15 Great Small Colleges for a Bachelor’s in Healthcare Administration 2015.” Healthcare Administration Degree Programs, an online source for undergraduate and graduate information, ranked Gardner-Webb No. 8 in the nation for bachelor’s degrees in healthcare administration at a small college. Schools were ranked based on institution types, accreditation, affiliations, faculty strength and ratio, admission rate, and average net price of the college.
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GWU Mourns Loss of Assistant Athletics Director
Office of University Communications
The Gardner-Webb University community is mourning the loss of longtime athletics department administrator Mike Roebuck, who passed away this week at the age of 65. Roebuck was in his 14th season as assistant athletics director for academic services, and he previously served six years as the University’s director of financial aid. “We are devastated by the news of Mike’s passing,” said GWU Vice President for Athletics Chuck Burch.
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GWU’s Dr. Steve Harmon Serves as Keynote Speaker at Vatican II Symposium
Office of University Communications
A Gardner-Webb University instructor of Christian theology recently participated as a keynote speaker in a discussion on ecumenism held at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., as part of a four-year series of events with the theme “Celebrating the Legacy of Vatican II.” Dr. Steve Harmon was one of several internationally-recognized theologians and clergy members from around the country who took part in a conversation on ecumenism during last month’s symposium. Unitatis Redintegratio, the Decree on Ecumenism coming out of the Second Vatican Council, was the subject of a discussion between keynote speakers Harmon, William Rusch, D.Phil., of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Yale Divinity School; and the Rev. John Crossin, Ph.D., a priest in the order of the Oblates of St. Francis De Sales and a member of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Gardner-Webb Department Chairman Taking American Railroad Adventure
Office of University Communications and Jill Blank
“All aboard!” Gardner-Webb Professor Dr. Bob Carey will hear this phrase many times in the next few weeks. The GWU Communication and New Media Department chairman is taking a trip across the United States via railroad with his camera as his companion.
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Gardner-Webb Online Graduate Nursing Degree Named Top-20 Program Nationwide
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb University’s online Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree has been named a top-20 program nationwide by an education information website, the third distinguished honor for GWU’s Hunt School of Nursing this year. SuperScholar, an online source for college and career information, honored Gardner-Webb as No. 19 in its “50 Best Online Master’s in Nursing Programs of 2015,” a resource produced to help current and future nurses make smart choices about advancing their education and careers. The ranking earned GWU a place among schools like Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.) and Duke University (Durham, N.C.).
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Trio of Art Events Debut at Gardner-Webb in February
Office of University Communications
Artistic work will abound at Gardner-Webb University during the month of February as three separate exhibits open on the campus. Shows include work by GWU art students, a university professor and a resident of nearby Mooresboro, N.C. Tom Whitaker debuted his “Potter at Large” exhibition on Feb. 3, and it will continue through Feb. 27 in the art gallery in the Tucker Student Center.
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GWU Alumna Named Army Spouse of the Year
Office of University Communications
A Gardner-Webb University graduate has been named Armed Forces Insurance (AFI) 2015 Army Spouse of the Year. Corie Weathers was recently named the branch winner for the Army, and is a finalist for the overall National AFI Military Spouse of the Year, to be announced in May. Weathers and her husband, Matthew Weathers, a U.S. Army Chaplain currently stationed at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Ga., met at Gardner-Webb.
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GWU Honors Career of Former Coach Eddie Holbrook
Office of University Communications
Former Gardner-Webb coach Eddie Holbrook helped put the University on the intercollegiate athletics map by building an elite basketball program in the 1960s and 1970s. Now Gardner-Webb has put Holbrook’s name on the University’s basketball court in Paul Porter Arena to honor his accomplishments as a coach and mentor. The University honored the former coach and celebrated the naming of Eddie Holbrook Court, with a reception and a halftime program on Feb. 26 during the Runnin’ Bulldogs’ home game versus Charleston Southern.
Youtube: Naming of the Eddie Holbrook Court at Gardner-Webb University
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