Category: News

  • CU vans picking up students across icy campus

      Jan. 7, 2014 For Immediate Release CU students Candice Boone of Bardstown, Ky. and Kevin Thomas of Elizabethtown, Ky. track down a CU van on a cold January day. (Campbellsville University Photo by Kasey Ricketts) By Drew Tucker, communications assistant CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. – An arctic blast hit Campbellsville University and Kentucky Sunday night, causing…

  • Dr. Frank Cheatham announces retirement after 40 1/2 years at CU

    Jan. 7, 2014 For Immediate Release   Dr. Frank Cheatham, senior vice president for academic affairs at CU, showed faculty members a book concerning the new millennials he recommended they read. A few minutes later, Cheatham announced his intention to retire at the end of the 2014 calendar year after 40 1/2 years of service…

  • Fifty graduates honored at Allied Health pinning ceremony

      Dec. 20, 2013 For Immediate Release Attending the Allied Health Program Pinning Ceremony at Campbellsville University’s Virginia Ponser Flanagan Technology Training Center were from left: Front row – Lori Alvizo, Elizabeth Mackay, Corey Kaufman, Ashley Willis, Mary Wood, Tabatha Capps, Nicole Jones, Arlene Underwood, Stephanie Jensen and Kayla Hager. Back row — Melissa Mattingly,…

  • Campbellsville University guest speaker in WIRED Magazine

      January 2, 2014 For Immediate Release   Dr. Akira Miyawaki, a respected Japanese authority on forest ecology and conservation is featured on page 34 of the January Issue of WIRED Magazine. Miyawaki is pictured holding his CU Science Department gift tee from his host Dr. Richard Kessler, associate professor of biology and environmental studies…

  • CU international students have different Christmas traditions

    Dec. 20, 2013 For Immediate Release A shopping mall, called Mixc in Nanning, Guangxi, China, features Christmas decorations. It is in the hometown of Ye Wei “Vicky,” a graduate student earning her master’s of business administration degree. By Yvonne Matheas, student news writer CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. — Gingerbread houses, big sparkling Christmas trees, eggnog, midnight Mass…

  • ESL guests appear on Chowning show on WLCU

    Dec. 20, 2013 For Immediate Release   Campbellsville University’s John Chowning, vice president for church and external relations and executive assistant to the president of CU, right, interviews from left: Hannah Baird, Tim Hooker and Maryann Matheny, from CU’s English as a Second Language Department, for his “Dialogue on Public Issues” show. The show will…

  • Gina Sears welcomed to staff at CU’s Larry and Beverly Noe Somerset Education Center

      Dec. 11, 2013 For Immediate Release By Linda Waggener, marketing and media relations coordinator SOMERSET, Ky. – Gina Bowles Sears has joined the staff at the Campbellsville University’s Larry & Beverly Noe Somerset Education Center (SEC) as admissions counselor – degree completion support.  Gina Sears during the Campbellsville University Employee Christmas lunch. (Campbellsville University…

  • The Rev. James Washington receives CU Racial Reconciliation Award

    Dec. 20, 2013 For Immediate Release   The Rev. James Washington, third from left, pastor of New Zion Baptist Church in Adair County, receives the Campbellsville University Racial Reconciliation Award from Dr. Michael V. Carter, left, and John Chowning, far right. Renee Shaw, Kentucky Educational Television journalist and host of “Connections with Renee Shaw,’’ who…

  • CU president speaks of community involvement at chamber luncheon

    Dec. 19, 2013 For Immediate Release Dr. Michael V. Carter, in his 15th year as president of Campbellsville University, shows the Campbellsville/ Taylor County Chamber of Commerce, a recent economic impact story that shows CU contributed over $100 million in 2012-13 to the local economy. (Campbellsville University Photo by Drew Tucker) By Joan C. McKinney,…

  • Pultizer Prize winning photographer speaks on campus; on WLCU-TV

    Dec. 18, 2013 For Immediate Release Campbellsville University’s John Chowning, vice president for church and external relations and executive assistant to the president of CU, right, interviews José Galvez, Mexican-American Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, for his “Dialogue on Public Issues” show. The show will air Sunday, Dec. 22 at 8 a.m.; Monday, Dec. 23 at…