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Southwest Baptist University continues the tradition of honoring one male and one female student each year at the annual Mr. and Miss Southwest Pageant, which takes place this year at 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 1, in Pike Auditorium on the SBU campus.
Read: "Two SBU students to be crowned Mr. and Miss Southwest at annual pageant"
Southwest Baptist University is set to graduate 218 students at two winter 2017 commencement ceremonies. The Bolivar campus will hold commencement at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 15, in the Jane and Ken Meyer Wellness and Sports Center. The Mercy College of Nursing and Health Sciences of SBU will hold winter commencement at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 14, at Second Baptist Church in Springfield.
Read: "More than 200 students to graduate at SBU winter commencement ceremonies"
Two faculty members and a staff member were honored at Southwest Baptist University's annual convocation Wednesday, Aug. 24. Convocation marks the formal beginning of the academic year and is a time when campus gathers to focus on SBU's mission and traditions. "An important tradition at SBU is our commitment to stay focused on our mission, which has remained consistent down through the years... that it has always been a Christ-centered institution," said SBU President C. Pat Taylor, Ed.D. "If each of us will continue the tradition of living out the SBU mission statement in our lives, the 2016-2017 academic year, which is our 139th, will be a great year."
Read: "SBU celebrates new school year at formal convocation"
Southwest Baptist University's 2017 Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) Department Advisory Board met early in the spring semester in the newly renovated Taylor Free Enterprise Center on the Bolivar campus, in conjunction with the Robert W. Plaster College of Business and Computer Science Spring Career Fair.
Read: "SBU CIS advisory board, career fair open doors for students"
Southwest Baptist University alumni Kayla Bobeen and Taylor Jaudes were recently recognized as two of Missouri's Outstanding Beginning Teachers at the Missouri Association of Colleges for Teacher Education's spring conference at the Columbia Conference Center.
Read: "SBU alumni recognized as Outstanding Beginning Teachers"
The Darrell R. Strait Center for the Integration of Science and Christian Faith at Southwest Baptist University will present a lecture at 4 p.m., Thursday, May 3, on the Bolivar campus.
The Southwest Baptist University Department of Music welcomes guest artists Dr. Martin McCain and Dr. Artina McCain as they perform solo and duo repertoire for trombone and piano at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 21, in the Meyer Recital Hall of the Casebolt Music Building on the Bolivar campus.
Southwest Baptist University's Board of Trustees invites the public to the inauguration of Eric A. Turner, Ed.D., as the 25th President of SBU at 10 a.m. Friday, April 26, in Mabee Chapel on the Bolivar campus. A reception will be held in the Mabee Chapel lobby after the ceremony.