“Can College Counselors Use Duct Tape?” published in Counseling TodayNational publication Counseling Today published Director of Student Success Center and licensed counselor Todd Monger’s article, “Can College Counselors Use Duct Tape?” in its March 2008 issue. Monger was also featured in the winter 2008 issue of AGTS Rapport. (Be sure to ask him about his affinity for the TV show MacGyver.) Children’s Ministry Team to Visit UKSix NCU students have been selected for a Children’s Ministry tour to England and Ireland May 14-30, 2008 with Dan Rector, Assistant Professor of Children’s Ministry, and his wife Nancy. The team will be spending their first week with Great Britain Children’s Ministry Director Steve Williams and the second with missionaries Brent & Lori Enget in Ireland. In both countries, they will serve in school and church programs, kids’ rallies, and training of workers. Of significance in Ireland is the fact that there is no existing children's ministry currently operating; this team will actually be creating and implementing one there. Rector’s team has received approval as a 2008 BGMC project from the National BGMC office in Springfield, MO. The $4000 worth of equipment and supplies they are bringing (e.g. puppets, puppet stage, costume characters, etc.) - thanks to donations by various Minnesota children's ministries and NCU - will be left with the various churches they minister at. The students participating in the trip are Denise Malone, Brittany Jacobs, Ryan Fesser, Troy King, Sadie Smith, and Brittany Thiemke. To find out more about the trip and the team, click here. NCU Students Present at Minnesota Undergraduate Psychology ConferenceNCU would like to congratulate eight Psychology majors whose senior projects were selected for presentation at the Minnesota Undergraduate Psychology Conference held April 26 at Hamline University in Saint Paul. 212 participants from 22 schools in 4 states presented their research, including the following NCU students:
Two NCU Professors Recognized on National & International PlatformsDr. Leslie Crabtree has accepted the honor of presenting a one-hour workshop on student writing apprehension at the 15th International Conference on Learning in Chicago, Illinois, early June 2008. Dr. Crabtree is the English Department Chair and Communication Arts Department Chair. Gary Dop, Assistant Professor of English, has had several of his poems published recently, one by AGNI, Boston University’s acclaimed literary journal. It can be read on the Poetry page of AGNI’s web site. Another poem will be published in Poetry Northwest, one of the oldest and most significant poetry magazines in the country. (Poetry Northwest receives thousands of submissions each year, but publishes less than 100.) Other poems by Dop have been featured in The South Dakota Review and The Tipton Poetry Journal, and Tiger's Eye. North Central Athletics Gives the Shoes off Their FeetWhen NCU athletes took the stage for their annual Athletics Chapel, the Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and Leadership Counsel of Captains (LCC) focused their time around the theme of “Walking a Mile in Someone Else’s Shoes”. That included giving the shoes off their feet as a symbol of unity and service. These athletes are part of Soles4Souls, a charity focused on collecting shoes and the athletes’ work with victims of natural disasters such as the 2004 Southeast Asia Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Athletes called on the NCU community present in chapel to donate the very shoes they were wearing as a sign of unity with people in the world who lack such a fundamental necessity. The campus responded with around 200 pairs of gently used athletic, casual, and dress footwear. $200 for shipping costs was also donated. More than a fundraiser or charitable act, NCU athletes believed this to be a unifier between athletes and the campus they represent. “God isn’t going to do what he wants to until we’re unified as a campus,” said Tom Beilke, a senior baseball captain.
NCU to Host Conference on Prevention of Human TraffickingMinneapolis, MN - North Central University and the Biblical Justice Center invite you to PATHs. (Partnering Against Trafficking of Humans). The event will take place on Saturday, April 26, 2008 in the Trask Word & Worship Center at NCU. The day includes plenary speakers Dr. Laura J. Lederer, (Executive Director, Office to Monitor & Combat Trafficking of Persons, U.S. Department of State) and Dr. Beth Grant, U.S. Liaison for Project Rescue, as well as workshops and discussions. For more information or to register for the event, Click Here. The conference is being hosted by the Intercultural Studies & Languages Department.
Trask Worship Center
$5 conference cost at door $15 adult dinner & conference $10 student dinner & conference |