Baker University News

Heritage Alumni Concert set for Nov. 12

SRottinghaus@bakeru.edu (Steve Rottinghaus) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:02:28 +0000

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Nov. 2, 2009
Contact: Steve Rottinghaus, director of public relations, 785-594-8330 or steve.rottinghaus@bakeru.edu

Heritage Alumni Concert set for Nov. 12

Baldwin City, Kan. — The Heritage Alumni Concert, part of Baker University’s Artist and Lecture Series, will be at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 12, at Baldwin First United Methodist Church. Admission is $15 for adults and $10 for youths.

The concert will feature performances from Baker alumni Jeremy Wohletz and Scott Allison, both graduates of the Class of 2005, and the Lawrence Women’s Chorale, directed by Sara Wentz, a 1984 Baker graduate.

Tickets are available at the Baker University business office in the lower level of Constant Hall and the music office in Owens Musical Arts Building. Tickets also can be purchased at the door 30 minutes before the performance.

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Senior to receive Major of the Year Award

SRottinghaus@bakeru.edu (Steve Rottinghaus) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:23:30 +0000

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Oct. 29, 2009

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Senior to receive Major of the Year Award

Baldwin City, Kan. — Mack Brown, a senior from Liberty, Mo., will receive on Thursday, Oct. 29, the Kansas Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance Major of the Year award representing Baker University’s Department of Health, Sport, and Human Performance. The award will be given at Pittsburg State University during a banquet held in conjunction with KAHPERD’s annual convention.

Brown is pursuing a Bachelors of Science degree in teaching health and physical education. He was named a 2009 Mildred Hunt Riddle Scholar in Health, Sport, and Human Performance.

Brown, a four-year starter at quarterback and team captain on Baker’s football team, holds 15 school records. His honors include: football team most valuable offensive player; NAIA Region V scholar-athlete; NAIA academic All-American; Heart of America Athletic Conference first-team quarterback; and Champions of Character Award — 2008 NAIA football playoffs.

Brown, a regular on Baker University’s dean’s list, is the son of Sam and Cindy Brown of Liberty, Mo.

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Baker University Marching Festival

SRottinghaus@bakeru.edu (Steve Rottinghaus) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:37:44 +0000

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Oct. 20, 2009

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De Soto receives championship trophy

Baldwin City, Kan. — DeSoto High School, which were awarded top ratings in marching and the color guard, received the Jeremy Frye memorial championship trophy at the 11th annual Baker University Marching Festival on Oct. 14 at Liston Stadium.

The DeSoto Dazzlers and Louisburg Jazzy Cats were the lone performers to participate in the color guard competition. Both of them received I ratings.

Here are results from the marching festival:

I Rating

Louisburg, De Soto, Hutchinson

II Rating

Baldwin, St. Thomas Aquinas, Spring Hill, Bonner Springs, Perry-Lecompton, Ottawa, Osage City, Mill Valley, Tonganoxie, Atchison

III Rating

Highland Park, Cass Midway, Paola, Turner

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Fall Choral Concert set for Oct. 27

SRottinghaus@bakeru.edu (Steve Rottinghaus) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:24:35 +0000

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Oct. 13, 2009
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Fall Choral Concert set for Oct. 27

Baldwin City, Kan. — Baker University’s annual Fall Choral Concert is set for 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 27, at First United Methodist Church, 704 Eighth St. Admission is free.

The performance will feature the Baker University Women’s Choir, Baker Chamber Singers, The Concert Choir and 8 on Eighth.

The choirs, conducted by Matthew Potterton, will sing a variety of music from various historical periods, jazz, as well as classical genres.

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Orchestras to perform at fall concert

SRottinghaus@bakeru.edu (Steve Rottinghaus) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:23:02 +0000

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Oct. 13, 2009

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Orchestras to perform at fall concert

Baldwin City, Kan. — The Baker University Fall Orchestra Concert will be 3:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 25, at Rice Auditorium. Admission is free.

The concert will open with “Brandenburg Concerto No. 5” by J.S. Bach, featuring student soloists Sarah Shipley (violin), Olivia Hernandez (flute) and Adrienne Barclay (harpsichord).

The String Orchestra will perform “St. Paul’s Suite” by Gustav Holst and “It Takes Four to Tango” by 21st century American composer Daniel Dorff.

The Symphonic Orchestra selections include “Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46” by Edvard Grieg and two movements of “Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34” by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

Lori McKinney will conduct the orchestras.

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Electrifying Baldwin City documentary to premiere

SRottinghaus@bakeru.edu (Steve Rottinghaus) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:27:55 +0000

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Oct. 9, 2009
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Electrifying Baldwin City documentary to premiere

Baldwin City, Kan. — The documentary “Bauer, Baker and Baldwin City: Electrifying a Small Town’s Identity” will premiere at 5 p.m., Friday, Oct. 23, at The Lodge, 502 Ames St.

A grant from the Kansas Humanities Council supported the project as part of its Kansans Tell Their Stories Program. The Lodge and the Baldwin City Chamber of Commerce will serve as host of the screening.

The eight-minute documentary captures the story of Professor W.C. Bauer, Baker and Baldwin City being forever linked in 1906 when the young academic electrified the university and then the entire town.

“The documentary focuses on the impact an innovative chemistry and physics professor had on the Baldwin City community at the turn of the century,” said Joanne Tolkoff, project director and the director of marketing and communications at Baker. “Professor Bauer provided a service, encouraging the community to be independent and not to cave in to the corporate power utilities at work at that time.”

A research paper by a Baker University student last year inspired the documentary. Tracy Light, a senior history and secondary education major, conducted all of the primary-source research associated with the story.

“Her paper allowed us to realize there was a good story, something that had some depth and a story worth telling,” Tolkoff said. “We were one of the first communities in the area to install an electric grid system to bring electricity into the city limits. It was so unusual that we became a model for other towns.”

A panel discussion, led by John Richards, assistant professor at Baker, will follow the documentary. He will be joined by Light; Loren Litteer, former Baldwin City mayor; Julie Mulvihill, executive director of the Kansas Humanities Council; Brad Roszell, of Hometown Collaborations; and Susan Emel, professor of communication at Baker.

“The collaborative effort with Baldwin City residents in the production of the project has resulted in an informative and enlightening documentary,” Tolkoff said.

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MBA student receives Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship

SRottinghaus@bakeru.edu (Steve Rottinghaus) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:29:28 +0000

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Oct. 6, 2009
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MBA student receives prestigious scholarship

Baldwin City, Kan. — Kay Thomas, a student in Baker University’s Master of Business Administration program at the Lee’s Summit, Mo., campus, has received a scholarship from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. The scholarship provides up to $50,000 annually for up to six years to students pursuing graduate or professional degrees.

Thomas is one of only 49 graduate students to be awarded a scholarship this year from the foundation. Recipients of the scholarship are selected based on their academic achievement, critical thinking ability, unmet financial needs, will to succeed and breadth of interests and activities.

“The foundation has provided more than a scholarship, but also a rich experience as they bring scholars together every July and August for a scholars weekend in the Washington D.C. area,” Thomas said. “This has helped me to connect with other students, providing motivation for school, a desire to learn, and a desire to do my part to make the world a better place in which to live.”

A registered nurse at DaVita Dialysis Clinic in North Kansas City, Mo., Thomas is pursuing an MBA to be in a position to provide improved quality health care with a cost effective strategy. She hopes to work in corporate settings to provide education for employees to work toward fitness goals in a holistic model, caring for the physical, emotional, environmental, spiritual, social, and psychological needs of people.

“My passion has been to strive to have a positive impact on the world,” said Thomas, who lives in Independence, Mo. “Witnessing the suffering of people and not having adequate resources to do something to end that suffering gave me the incentive to go to nursing school.”

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Guitar orchestra to perform on Baldwin City campus

SRottinghaus@bakeru.edu (Steve Rottinghaus) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:33:01 +0000

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Sept. 28, 2009

Contact: Steve Rottinghaus, Baker University director of public relations, (785) 594-8330, steve.rottinghaus@bakeru.edu

Guitar orchestra to perform on Baker campus

Baldwin City, Kan. — The Carl-Maria von Weber Guitar Orchestra from Eutin, Germany, will perform as part of Baker University’s Artist and Lecture Series at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 6, at McKibbin Recital Hall on the Baldwin City campus. Tickets are $15.

Andreas van Zoest will conduct the orchestra. He received his master's degree in music education specializing in guitar at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, Germany and teaches guitar and ensemble performance at the Musikschule Ostholstein in Eutin. His students are among the most talented in Germany, having frequently won first prizes in the Jugend Musiziert competition.

Tickets for the Artist and Lecture Series event may be purchased at the door 30 minutes before the performance. Tickets also are available at the Baker University business office at Constant Hall.

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University fall enrollment announced

SRottinghaus@bakeru.edu (Steve Rottinghaus) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:35:26 +0000

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Sept. 22, 2009
Contact: Steve Rottinghaus, Baker University director of public relations, (785) 594-8330, steve.rottinghaus@bakeru.edu

University enrollment at 3,853 students; more than 300 new students on Baldwin City campus

Baldwin City, Kan. — As of Sept. 22, Baker University’s overall enrollment for the fall 2009 semester is 3,853 students, according to figures released today from all four of its schools — College of Arts and Sciences, School of Professional and Graduate Studies, School of Nursing and School of Education.

The Baldwin City campus, which serves College of Arts and Sciences students and School of Education undergraduates, reported an enrollment of 992 students, six fewer than reported last fall. The enrollment figure includes non-degree seeking students. The on-campus population totals 929 students. Of that number, there are 308 new degree-seeking students — 257 freshmen and 51 transfers. That represents the highest total of new students at Baker since that number was first tracked in 1986.

“We are encouraged by the continued confidence families and their students have shown in our excellent undergraduate programs at the College of Arts and Sciences,” President Pat Long said. “Our new students have energized the Baldwin City campus through their participation in the classroom and university activities.”

Operating at maximum capacity, the School of Nursing at Stormont-Vail HealthCare in Topeka has 162 students enrolled.

The School of Professional and Graduate Studies and the School of Education graduate programs, which serve working adults at locations in Kansas and Missouri, have ongoing enrollment throughout the year. Current enrollment at the School of Professional and Graduate Studies is 1,789 students, consisting of 934 undergraduates and 855 graduate students. Baker’s School of Education graduate programs currently have 910 students.

At this time in 2008, Baker’s official fall enrollment was a record-high 4,112.

“After decades of steady increase and a year after setting a record enrollment for Baker University, we were aware of the potential for decline in our adult student population this fall because of challenges to our national economy,” Long said. “The adjustments to our budget over the past year were in anticipation of the economic concerns faced by working adults and their families. Our faculty and staff at all four of our schools remain steadfast in their recruiting and retention efforts.”

Baker has campuses in Baldwin City, Overland Park, Topeka, Wichita, North Kansas City, Mo., and Lee’s Summit, Mo.

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Exhibit to open Thursday at Quayle Bible Collection

SRottinghaus@bakeru.edu (Steve Rottinghaus) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:32:53 +0000

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Monday, Sept. 21, 2009

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Exhibit to open Thursday at Quayle Bible Collection

Baldwin City, Kan. — A Quayle Bible Collection exhibit titled “The Bible — Acted, Sung and Given” will open from 3:30-5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, at Collins Library on the Baldwin City campus.

The exhibit will celebrate how the Bible has been made beautiful through the ages by illumination, decoration and the singing of the psalms.

Lee Mann, professor and chair of art department, inspired the exhibit after teaching marbling last year and noticing approximately 100 marbled pieces in the collection.

Marbled endpapers, a “Book of Hours” and several Psalters will be on exhibit for the first time.

Contemporary marbled papers created by Susan Pogany, of Lawrence, will also be on display.

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Baker University is committed to assuring student learning, and developing confident, competent and responsible contributors to society.