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A bill passed through the Arkansas Senate on Monday could affect about 300 John Brown University students as well as many hopeful prospective students. The bill amends provisions of the Arkansas Lottery Scholarship, changing the award amount structure. Instead of the current $4,500 awarded each year, the amount will be […]
President Chip Pollard is the new chair of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities board, for a two-year term. The board officially elected him at its meeting earlier this month. His main job will be to run the meetings and advise the recently-hired president of the Council, Edward Blews, […]
When students at John Brown University gather in the Cathedral of the Ozarks for chapel, hundreds of voices blend together in worship. In the same way, the University creates an environment in which people from a variety of backgrounds come together. The University’s mission is to grow the whole person […]
Students can soon rent a bicycle for a day, a weekend or even the semester. The Student Government Association passed a proposal last Thursday to allow an anonymous donor to buy several bicycles. Freshman Luke McFarlan, SGA engineering senator, is in charge of the project. He began working this fall, […]
Wall street journal best-selling author and comedian, Jon Acuff, spoke in chapel and led a talk back session at John Brown University Thursday. Acuff’s goal is to clear away the mess of Christianity using satire. Acuff gave examples of some things that he has noticed about Christians today. Sometimes we […]
Freezing friends, families and fellow students huddled outside the Cathedral of the Ozarks before the 2013 Talent and Variety Show at John Brown University. Mothers Dawn Eshnaur and Linda Hodge were at the front of the line, eager to see their sons perform in this year’s show. To be at […]
The New Life Ranch program, Right Lead, will begin a new semester of serving at-risk children by way of horsemanship next week. John Brown University students will visit the ranch for two hours each week and mentor first through 12th graders by using horses to teach them how to love […]
Surrounded by friends, faculty and students, Ivan Iglesias celebrated an important milestone this past Friday: his official status as a citizen of the United States. The University held a celebration for Iglesias, a Spanish language professor, in the Soderquist Business Center atrium. Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, Iglesias came to the […]
Teachers access the largest unreached people group in the world, said Margo Turner, professor of education at John Brown University. “There are 80 million kids in the public schools in the U.S.,” Turner said. “For some, their only positive role model is their teacher. For 180 days a year, seven […]
Love does. It is the title of Bob Goff’s New York Times best-selling book and the topic of his chapel sermon during the first half of Leadership Week sponsored by the Soderquist Business Center. The week’s theme is “Saving the World, Step 1: Secretly incredible in a world obsessed by […]