In the fall, the campus returns to in-person learning with hybrid options and enhanced health and safety measures on campus including frequent testing, vaccine clinics, and mask-wearing mandates.

Friends University is recognized as an Emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution with 16% of the undergraduate student body represented by Hispanic students.

Friends University graduated its first class during Commencement Week, June 2-6. Receiving their degrees were five people, Melissa Stanley Fellow, John Howard, Cecil Howes, Herman Newman, and Lee Redding.

Friends University acquires the first Bloomberg Terminal in the Wichita metro. The tool has been integrated into the business and finance degree programs giving students real-world experiences.

In the spring of 1921, the Board of Directors voted to spend $5,000 on laboratory equipment for the physics department of which Professor Samuel S. Kirby was the head.

Higher standards set by the North Central Association of College and Secondary Schools required Friends University to have an endowment of $650,000. A fundraising campaign started in January 1927 raising only $400,000. The university was dropped from North Central’s accreditation list.

To put a long-awaited exclamation mark on the 50th year of the university, Watson hoped to secure reaccreditation in the North Central Association (NCA) and unfortunately failed to do so. Once again, Friends was denied due to low financial income, low faculty salaries, and low expenditures for the library. Of..Read More

Friends University announces the first doctoral program for the university. The first of its kind at the doctoral level, the Doctor of Ministry in Formation and Soul Care (DMin) seeks to equip Christian practitioners with a comprehensive biblical, theological, and practical paradigm for Christian formation and soul care in a..Read More