July 15, 2015 | Provost Larry Long announced Tuesday that Dr. Kristi Bond, assistant professor of foreign language, would become chair of the foreign language department effective Aug. 1. Bond replaces Ava Conley, who will return to full-time teaching. Conley has served as department chair since 2003 and has been on the faculty since 1973. Bond, who has been at Harding since 2011, earned a
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July 14, 2015 | High school students from 10 different states will present a free choral concert July 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the recital hall of the Reynolds Center on the Harding University campus. Participants in the University’s summer Honor Choir program are on campus all week studying voice, sight-reading, staging and choreography, theatre movement, vocal harmonization, and choral music. Dr. Cliff Ganus III,
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July 10, 2015 | Dr. Allen Frazier, associate dean of Harding University’s Paul R. Carter College of Business Administration, was named dean of the college effective July 15. Frazier succeeds Dr. Bryan Burks, who was named vice president for advancement in June. Frazier joined the Harding faculty in 2001 as an assistant professor in the College of Business Administration. In 2006, he was named chair
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July 9, 2015 | Dr. Kevin Kehl, director of First Year Experience and academic resources in the University’s Center for Student Success, was named dean of the center effective Aug. 1. As dean, Kehl will oversee the numerous functions of the center, which includes areas of academic advising and resources, ADVANCE, career services, disabilities services, First Year Experience, Multicultural Student Services, TRIO McNair Scholars, TRIO
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July 2, 2015 | Workmen will begin next week tearing down three houses to make room for additional parking on the north side of the Harding University campus. The three houses (912, 914 and 918 East Market Avenue) are owned by the University and are located adjacent to an existing parking lot for visitors, students, faculty and staff. The new lot will provide space for
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June 26, 2015 | Theatre Searcy Summer Dinner Theatre will continue its 33rd season Thursday, July 2 at 6:30 p.m. with “The 39 Steps” in the Ulrey Performing Arts Center at Harding University. “The 39 Steps” features a man with a boring life who meets a woman with a thick accent who says she’s a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon,
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June 22, 2015 | Dr. Bryan Burks, dean of the Paul R. Carter College of Business Administration, today was named vice president of advancement. The appointment becomes effective July 15. He will direct the advancement efforts of Harding, which includes leading a team of seven fundraising professionals in the office. Burks, 48, succeeds Dr. Mike Williams in the position. Williams left Harding on May 31
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June 9, 2015 | Searcy Summer Dinner Theatre will begin its 33rd season Thursday, June 11 at 6:30 p.m. with “The Game’s Afoot” in the Ulrey Performing Arts Center at Harding University. The season, themed “A Season to Die For,” includes three shows this summer. “The Game’s Afoot” is set in 1936 in Connecticut with William Gillette, who made Sherlock Holmes famous on Broadway. When
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June 8, 2015 | Approximately 200 delegates from around the South are currently on the Harding University campus June 7-12 for the 59th Annual National Leadership Forum. The program, designed for students entering grades 9-12, teaches students the characteristics of leadership and familiarizes them with the American scene, encouraging pride in our nation’s traditions and principles. Each delegate must demonstrate character and leadership ability. The
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May 15, 2015 | Approximately 850 graduates received diplomas at Harding University commencement exercises Saturday, May 9. Ceremonies were held at 9 a.m., 12 p.m. and 3 p.m. in the University’s George S. Benson Auditorium, which seats approximately 3,600. The morning ceremony was for students in the Carr College of Nursing and the College of Sciences. In the noon ceremony, students graduated with degrees from
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