Category: News

  • CU graduates record number of 597 graduates for 2011-12 academic year

    May 5, 2012 For Immediate Release Campbellsville University commencement speakers and award winners gathered for a dinner May 4 at the Betty Dobbins Heilman House on CU’s campus. From left are: Jordan Cornett, graduating senior of Lexington, Ky., Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award winner; Dr. Joe Owens, chair of CU’s Board of Trustees; Dr. Michael V.…

  • CU student art show is ‘strongest ever seen’

    May 3, 2012 For Immediate Release      Patricia Mings, a senior of Eastview, Ky., received Best of Show with her watercolor piece titled “November Light” in Campbellsville University’s juried student art show. She also won first place in sculpture, first place in painting and first place in other. (Campbellsville University Photo by Ashley Wilson)…

  • CU celebrates Earth Day with planting of flowers in water garden

    May 3, 2012 For Immediate Release   Campbellsville University president Michael V. Carter, center, and Campbellsville Mayor Tony Young, to his left, work with the children from Campbellsville Elementary School planting flowers at Earth Day on the CU campus. (Campbellsville University Photo by Joan C. McKinney) By Joan C. McKinney, news and publications coordinator CAMPBELLSVILLE,…

  • CU School of Theology celebrates graduates

    May 3, 2012 For Immediate Release Campbellsville University’s School of Theology gathered “In the Garden” to celebrate May graduates and “thank God for our beloved dean (Dr. John Hurtgen),” Dr. Jarvis Williams, assistant professor of New Testament and Greek, said. School of Theology faculty and graduating seniors joining in the celebration, from left, are: front…

  • Campbellsville University students place in state PBL competition

    May 2, 2012 For Immediate Release    Campbellsville University students placed in the state Phi Beta Lambda competition this semester. From left are: Davaajargal Dorjsuren, international business coordinator and CU’s PBL adviser; Katherine Ames, a senior of Elizabethtown, Ky.; Celeste Presley, a sophomore of Georgetown, Ky.; and Deanna Mulhall, a senior of Louisville, Ky. By…

  • Sherre Miller Bishop to be on ‘Dialogue on Public Issues’

    April 27, 2012 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 Sherre Miller Bishop, a Christian dramatist, speaker and writer from Nashville, Tenn., during a “Dialogue on Public Issues” TV show on WLCU. With her is Elder Richard…

  • CU students traveling to Africa for summer missions

    May 1, 2012 For Immediate Release By Christina L. Kern, office assistant CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky.— Two groups of students from Campbellsville University will travel to Africa for summer mission trips: one to Niger for two weeks and the other to Ghana for two months. The Niger team will work with Mark and Parker Hill Phillips, both…

  • KBC executive director to speak on ‘Dialogue on Public Issues’

    May 2, 2012 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 Dr. Paul Chitwood, executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, during a “Dialogue on Public Issues” TV show on WLCU. The show will air Sunday, May 6…

  • CU First-Year Experience celebrates Servant Leadership projects

    April 27, 2012 For Immediate Release      Lauren Oliver, a freshman of Crestwood, Ky., and Jessie Harden, a freshman of Campbellsville, play bingo with residents of Grandview Nursing Home for their servant leadership project with Dale Furkin’s class. The class visited once a week during the spring. From left are: Raymond Walter, Francis Bright, Oliver, Harden,…

  • CU Carver School SWITCH Club holds first Carboard Nation at Somerset Center

    April 26, 2012 For Immediate Release Chelsea Humble from Wayne County, left, and Nekesha Durham, from Russell County, joined fellow SWITCH Club members in the first Cardboard Nation event held in Somerset to raise awareness of homelessness. They are students of the Campbellsville University Carver School of Social Work and Counseling at the Somerset Center.…