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Community Hospital Anderson partners with AU School of Nursing

October 29th, 2009


Community Hospital Anderson recently announced that it is partnering with the Anderson University School of Nursing to enhance medication training and practices. Community Hospital Anderson, along with the Community Hospital Anderson Foundation, will provide the AU School of Nursing with the Pyxis® MedStation® System. The Pyxis® MedStation® System represents the very latest in automated medication management.

AU FSB Professor receives 2009 Outstanding Educator Award

October 27th, 2009


Cindy Peck, associate professor of accounting at the Falls School of Business, received the 2009 Outstanding Educator of the Year at the Indiana CPA Society awards October 16 at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in Indianapolis.

Innovative Student Teaching Program Begins Its Third Year for SOE

October 27th, 2009


Anderson University’s School of Education is in the third year of a successful internship program that offers student teachers an added semester to experience working more closely with students, parents and administrators.

Hallmark Homes Announces Extreme Family and Celebrity: AU Involved

October 21st, 2009


Today, Ty Pennington and his team travel to Miami County, Ind., to meet the Cowan-Brown family. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition will rebuild the home of Andy and Heather Cowan, factory workers who struggle to support their four children Ryan, 16, Trevor, 13, Mason, 8, and daughter Kori, 12, who is battling a congenital blood disease.

FSB Professor Doyle Lucas presented CBFA Chewning Award

October 19th, 2009


The highest honor given annually to a business faculty member active in the Christian Business Faculty Association (CBFA) is the Richard C. Chewning Award. The 2009 award recipient of the Richard C. Chewning Award is Dr. Doyle Lucas, DBA Program director and professor of management at the Falls School of Business at Anderson University. This award, sponsored by the ServiceMaster Corporation was presented at the 2009 Annual Conference of the CBFA at John Brown University on October 15-17.

Anderson University welcomes Tirabassi for Spiritual Emphasis Week

October 19th, 2009


Anderson University welcomes Becky Tirabassi to campus for Spiritual Emphasis Week (SEW), October 20-22.

Anderson University Social Work Program Earns Reaccreditation

October 14th, 2009


The Social Work Program at Anderson University recently earned reaccreditation from the Council on Social Work Education, a standing it has enjoyed since 1979. The Council granted the program another eight years of accreditation, the maximum accreditation period.

Large turnout for Anderson University homecoming events

October 12th, 2009


Mona Hoffman, her sister Dorothy Thomas, and Thomas’ husband, Larry, warmed themselves by a wood fire Saturday as Anderson University’s Homecoming Street Fair buzzed a few feet away.

“I have never seen so many children,” Thomas beamed. “That’s insurance for Anderson University.”

Rainy prelude couldn’t dampen homecoming spirit

October 12th, 2009


Connie Graham laughed off the damp, cool weather Friday that forced a planned Anderson University homecoming cookout to seek shelter in the Decker Hall Commons breezeway.

Webcast highlights from the AU Homecoming street fair

October 10th, 2009


Enjoy highlights from the Anderson University Homecoming street fair, hosted by WQME 98.7 FM’s Matt Rust.

Part 1: Featuring the Martin Hall “Subterraneans” (1964-65), Joy (May) Sherman (class of 1997), Dienzel Dennis (class of 1961), and Brent Baker (class of 1985).

Part 2: Featuring UMatter Class Challenge announcement, Phil Fair (class of 1961), Kelly Kaiser (class of 2009), and Ben Davis (class of 1997).

Anderson University is a private Christian university of 2,800 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 65 undergraduate majors and graduate programs in business, education, music, nursing, and theology.