AU is preparing to welcome new students to campus from Aug. 30 to Sept. 3 as a part of New Student Orientation. The campus theme this year is, “Shalom: God. Neighbor. Earth.”

2007 Move-in Day at AU

According to Dean Branson, director of student programs, the purpose of new student orientation is “to provide new students and their parents with a structured, comprehensive introduction to opportunities at Anderson University, to assist new students in their transition to the institution, and to integrate them into the life of the institution. We try to plan a variety of activities throughout the Orientation weekend that will allow new students to meet other students, faculty, and staff as well as begin to acclimate to their surroundings.”

The Anderson University Alumni Office is in partnership with Harris Connect on a new alumni directory project set for scheduled release in the spring of 2008. If you are contacted by Harris Connect via e-mail or standard please consider this request as the information provided will benefit this important alumni project. If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to Kim Wolfe, director of Alumni & Parent Programs at kjwolfe@anderson.edu.

Anderson University is a private Christian university of 2,700 undergraduate and graduate students in central Indiana. Anderson continues to be recognized as a top Christian college: in 2008, U.S. News and World Report ranked Anderson University among the best colleges and universities in the Midwest for the fourth consecutive year. Established in 1917 by the Church of God, Anderson University offers more than 60 undergraduate majors and graduate programs in business, education, music, nursing and theology.

US News and World Report has again ranked Anderson University among the best universities in the Midwest offering master’s level degree programs. Institutions in this category offer a full range of both undergraduate and master’s level degree programs. The magazine’s 2008 guide to “America’s Best Colleges” marks the fourth consecutive year that Anderson University has been listed among the best in its class.

Hundreds gathered this morning to dedicate the Anderson University Flagship Center, connected to the Flagship Enterprise Center. The facility houses the Falls School of Business residential MBA (RMBA) program.

View a video about the AU Flagship Center.

Speaking at the ceremony were AU president, James Edwards; AU board chair, Lou Gerig; President and CEO of the Flagship Enterprise Center, Charles Staley; Purdue’s College of Technology dean, Denis Depew; AU’s Conference and Performance Events director, Cheryl Shank; AU School of Adult Learning dean, Aleza Beverly; Falls School of Business dean, Terry Truitt; and RMBA student, Anne Gunn. After the ribbon-cutting ceremony, RMBA students gave tours of the building, and refreshments were served in the Professional Development Center.

“The Anderson University Flagship Center now completes a strategic plan that brings the best of this university to the major corridor of development and at the very doorway to our community,” said Edwards.

Mandy Harrison is in her first season with the AU women’s basketball coaching staff.

Anderson University will once again partner with Stretch Internet and WQME 98.7 FM to broadcast Raven sporting events during the 2007-08 year. During the fall, more than 60 events will be carried live on the internet, including Dave Edwards Talk’n Sports show on Saturday mornings.

Local radio station WQME 98.7 FM recently announced that AU graduate and former Raven athlete and coach Dave Edwards will join their team.

The university community received word last Friday, August 3, that Keren Berrios, an Anderson University student from El Salvador, was involved in a serious car accident. She was transported to Saint John’s Health System in Anderson before being airlifted to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. She passed away on Sunday, August 5.

“Keren was a vibrant part of our university community, one whom we seemed to know personally from the first day she arrived on the campus,” said Dr. James L. Edwards, president of Anderson University.” We have loved her warm spirit, generous friendship and inviting smile. We are in deep sorrow with all our students, staff and faculty, and will hold her family in our love and prayers. Keren Berrios is a student whom we will never forget. We thank God for all the days we had to share in her remarkable and dedicated life.”

Anderson University has announced that Tony Holloway will replace his father Larry as the head coach for the Raven softball team.

In the past nine months, Frank Pianki, the director of academics for the Residential MBA program, has run three marathons, three half-marathons, two adventure races, two triathlons, and a 10-mile trail run. Pianki ran his first marathon in 2004. Now he can’t stop running.

This September Pianki, age 53, will run a 50-mile ultra-marathon.