Friends University’s Faculty Brass Quintet will perform on November1, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. in the Riney Fine Art Center’s Sebits Auditorium. This performance will feature music of contemporary composers, written in the last 50 years. Includes music by Ewazen, Young, Cheetham, and the Quintet for Brass by Robert Washburn. The performance will be held in […]

A variety of ghosts, goblins, fairy princesses, superheroes and more will make their way to the annual Trick-or-Treat Off the Street event at Friends University from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Oct. 29. The event starts at Friends Village, 628 S. Hiram Ave. Children 12 and younger accompanied by their guardians will play games and collect […]

Friends University appreciates and honors the service and sacrifice of our nation’s military members. This Saturday, Oct. 24, the University is hosting a Military Appreciation Football Game. Free admission will be given to all military personnel and their dependents by showing a military ID on this day. The game against Tabor College will begin at […]

Amy Bragg Carey, Ed.D., will officially be inaugurated as the 14th president of Friends University Friday, Oct. 16, in a ceremony in the Davis Administration Building’s historic Alumni Auditorium. Inauguration guests and participants include dignitaries and delegates from universities throughout the United States, members of the community, and Friends University faculty, staff, board members, alumni […]

The Friends University Theatre Department will present “Wait Until Dark” on October 22-24 at 7:30 p.m., and October 25 at 2:00 p.m. in the Cornerstone Studio Theatre. A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a group of thugs who have stashed a hand-made doll filled with heroin in her Greenwich Village apartment. Posing as an […]

Friends University Ballet will present the Fall Ballet, October 16-18, 2015 in the Riney Fine Arts Center’s Sebits Auditorium The fall ballet is featuring favorite sacred dance pieces. A few highlights include an abstract group dance set to Rich Mullins song 52:10 which is based on Isaiah 52:10, a piece titled “Amazing Grace” set to […]

The Kansas Independent College Association (KICA) proudly announced the selection of seventeen college faculty members to receive the association’s Faculty of Distinction award. The honorees will be recognized at a workshop and award reception in Newton KS, on November 3, 2015. The KICA Faculty of Distinction program celebrates excellence and achievement among faculty at the […]

Friends University Jazz Department will present a performance titled “Jazz Meets Broadway” on Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. in Sebits Auditorium. “Jazz Meets Broadway” will feature the award winning Friends University Jazz Ensemble I and the Friends University Jazz Vocal Ensemble. The famous “West Side Story Suite” from the library of Buddy Rich, […]

Governor Sam Brownback has signed a proclamation declaring October “College Application Month” and encouraged all high school seniors to take advantage of the assistance provided. Across the nation, there is a significant gap between students who want to attend college and those who apply: 97 percent of high school students surveyed indicate they wanted to […]

Pianist and Andover native Michael Kirkendoll will present a solo piano recital at Friends University Thursday, Sept. 24 at 7:30 p.m. in Sebits Auditorium on the Friends University campus. Called the “very model of a 21st Century Musician” by the Indianapolis Star, Kirkendoll is now on the piano faculty of the University of Kansas and […]