TOPEKA — Washburn University is pleased to announce the students in its fall 2021 graduating class. More than 700 students completed their courses for certificates, associate, bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees.

For some years now, Martin Luther King Jr. Day has had a special meaning to the community surrounding Benedictine College, in particular its influential Black Student Union.

GREENVILLE, South Carolina – Two area women are among the about 660 Bob Jones University students named the President’s List for high academic achievement accomplishments during the Fall 2021 semester.

Some collegiate campuses have more students enrolled than ever before, but where there is a need for them to bed down after a hard day of studying — or a night of partying — a place to put that bed might be hard to come by.

Benedictine College in Atchison, has established six new full-tuition scholarships designed to close equity gaps for historically marginalized student populations. Known as the Freedom Fellows, the program is targeted for students of color, first generation college students, and/or students …

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana– Patrick Sullivan, of Muscotah, was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Sullivan was initiated at The University of Kansas.

Benedictine College is taking on the Christmas Toy Challenge in an effort to bring in more toys for the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree program than ever before. The college has invited the entire Atchison community to participate and bring joy to as many needy children as possible.

The public is invited to join the Benedictine Bands for an hour-long concert presentation featuring the newly formed Benedictine College Brass Band, Percussion Ensemble and Jazz Band at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 24, in O’Malley-McAllister Auditorium.

Cadet Justin Bethel is just old enough to have a vivid memory of the moment when the towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001, and it is now his duty to carry the meaning of that to younger student soldiers.

EMPORIA – Emporia State University congratulates more than 800 undergraduates named to the university honor roll and dean’s lists for spring 2021. A student from the North East Kansas area and the award includes:

Benedictine College has decades of cherished history as a small, close-knit, Catholic higher education campus, but the ranks of Ravens are notably enriched of late.

St. Joseph, Missouri — Missouri Western State University conferred a total of 455 undergraduate and graduate degrees and certificates in the Spring 2021 semester. Graduates came from 17 states and seven foreign countries.

Director of Technical Education Lucas Hunziger, HCC Technical Center, predicts the educational programs and enrollment will be on an upward swing for the 2021-2022 schoolyear at the Atchison campus. The existing Diesel Technology Program has had a reputation of being one of the greatest in t…

The Highland Community College Technical Center celebrated the opening of the the new Diesel Technology Building on Tuesday. The state of the art facility will allow HCC to expand their current Diesel program as well as bring one, possibly two new programs to the Atchison Area.

LAWRENCE – Annika Wallace, Atchison, is a recipient of the Alexis and Craig Stevens Performing Arts Scholarship the University Of Kansas Department of Theatre & Dance recently announced.

In 2019, Benedictine College and the Seymour Institute on Black Church and Policy Studies created a partnership that sent college students to Boston to work as tutors and mentors for middle school students through the Martin Luther King Summer Scholars Program.

The 42nd Annual Telly Awards has recognized the video series “Hebrews: The New and Eternal Covenant,” featuring Dr. Andrew Swafford, associate professor of Theology at Benedictine College.

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI -- Jessica Wilkes, Atchison, graduated with a M.A. in Education from Avila University's Class of 2021, the University's 104th graduating class.

MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE – It is with great pleasure that Southern New Hampshire University congratulates the following students on being named to the Winter 2021 lists of academic honors of distinction. The winter term runs from January to May.

Seniors from the Class of 2020 returned to Atchison, Kan., to walk across the stage with their friends from the Class of 2021 during joint Commencement Exercises held at Benedictine College on Saturday, May 15.

GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA — The following local students are among approximately 665 Bob Jones University students named to the President’s List for high academic achievement during the Spring 2021 semester:

The U.S. Department of Education (Department) office of Federal Student Aid needs your help reaching Kansas high school seniors, current college students, and their parents to remind them to submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form. As Kansas’s April 1 deadline approaches, th…

EMPORIA – Emporia State University announces Makenzie Leigh Dougherty, of Atchison, was among the graduates earning degrees in December 2020. Dougherty earned a bachelor’s of science degree in elementary education with a minor in health.

Highland Community College recently announced its Fall 2020 President’s and Dean’s honor lists.

The Benedictine College Music Department invites the public to two concerts involving the various bands and ensembles of the Department of Music.

Benedictine College has shifted its annual Scholarship Ball to a virtual setting for Saturday, Feb. 27, which has opened the event up to alumni and friends of the college all over the world. The show is set to begin at 7:00 p.m. Saturday night, and can be seen at www.benedictine.edu/WatchSB.…

(Editor’s Note: The following article was written by Benedictine senior McKenna Elder, and printed in the college newspaper, The Circuit. It was reprinted with permission.)