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The Grace men’s soccer team achieved its finest season in recent memory during the 2011 season. The Lancers posted its first winning season (11-9-4) since 2003 and earned a trip to the NCCAA National Championships for the first time since 2002. Head coach Matt Hotchkin is hoping his team can build on last year’s success …read more.
Grace’s women’s soccer team is no longer a secret. The Lady Lancers have made a name for themselves in the national soccer scene with recent success and are poised to continue their winning ways in 2012. Under the direction of sixth-year head coach Michael Voss, Grace is coming off its second trip to the NCCAA …read more.
Ever have trouble finding which Kosciusko County beaches are closed due to high E. coli levels or wonder when they reopen? A new beach alert system will allow people to get this information immediately via website, email or text message. Kosciusko Lakes and Streams (KLAS), the Kosciusko County Health Department and K21 Health Foundation are …read more.
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) announced its list of NAIA Scholar Teams, and Grace College was honored when all 14 Lancer programs earned the prestigious award. Grace earned the rare accomplishment of having every eligible team named a Scholar Team by the NAIA. Overall, the Lancers were tied for fourth in the nation …read more.
Jessica Lokotar, a former student-athlete at Warsaw Community High School, will play tennis at Grace College. Lokotar is a recent graduate of The Indiana Academy for Science, Math and Humanities in Muncie. She played No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles her senior year for Muncie Burris, earning team MVP honors and also serving …read more.
At what appeared to be the final stages of Grace College’s severance with prison education in the state of Indiana, the school has opted to inherit Ivy Tech Community College’s role in managing the Department of Correction’s GED program. John Teevan, former director of the Prison Extension Program at Grace and current director of the …read more.
Grace College graduate Stephen Copeland has co-authored a book entitled “Finally Free” about the life of Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick. The book, which is a memoir of Vick’s life including his time in prison for being convicted of dogfighting charges, is due to be released Sept. 4. Copeland co-authored the book with Brett Honeycutt. …read more.
The Grace College campus is annual host to the MasterWorks Festival, a month-long intensive summer training program that focuses on instruction in the performing arts from a Christian worldview. It was co-founded in 1997 by Artistic Director of the Christian Performing Artists’ Fellowship Dr. Patrick and Barbara Kavanaugh and Dr. James and Mary Jeane Kraft. Originally the festival …read more.
The 15th annual Grace College Lancer Golf Classic is set for Aug. 6 at the Rozella Ford Golf Club in Warsaw. The event is one of the main fundraisers for the Grace College Athletic Department. Players taking part in the scramble can choose from either an 8 a.m. or 1 p.m. flight. The scramble also …read more.
Grace College is one of 31 schools participating in Indiana Private College Week, July 23-27. Campus tours and admissions/financial aid meeting are available 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Grace College saw a record-breaking 17 percent increase in incoming freshman enrollment for the Fall 2011 semester. This was largely due to the fact …read more.
As is standard for Grace College’s English program, Dr. Paulette Sauders took the senior English and English Education Majors this spring to take the English PRAXIS II exam that tests students’ abilities with language, literature and rhetoric. Four of the six students this time around scored high enough on the exam to be awarded “Certificates …read more.
Grace College students participating in applied learning experiences this summer are thriving in environments where they get a chance to practice real, experiential-based work and interaction. Applied learning initiatives aim to take the principles taught in the classroom out into the real world where otherwise solely academic concepts are put to practical use. This summer …read more.
The former Mid-Central College Conference, which includes Grace College, Goshen College and Bethel College, officially got a new name Wednesday. League Commissioner J.D. Collins announced that the 10-school athletic conference is now known as the Crossroads League. Collins initiated a re-brand effort to update and revive the identity of the Central Indiana based athletic conference. In …read more.
With the advent of Grace College’s new “reimagine” program—an accelerated three-year degree option—came alterations in how the school offers its academic credits. One of these was a move to offering more online summer courses: classes with fully integrated curriculum and fully equipped instructors that are taken through the school’s Learning Management System instead of in …read more.
Grace College’s Weber School at Fort Wayne invites families to attend an Open House from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, June 28. The event is open to anyone interested in Weber, but will be geared specifically toward homeschoolers who want to know more about the college application process, home school transcripts, and the school’s …read more.
WINONA LAKE, IND. – Grace College will be adding a long-anticipated dormitory to the school grounds. A celebratory groundbreaking this May marked the beginning of a project that will be completed as soon as fall semester 2013. The 13,000-square-foot residence will be able to house 62 students. Similar to the layout of Indiana Hall, the …read more.
The Orthopaedic Regulatory and Clinical Affairs (ORCA) graduate program at Grace College in Winona Lake, Ind., graduated its first cohort on May 19. Thirty ORCA students received their degrees in the college’s annual commencement ceremony after completing a rigorous year of study in twelve courses designed by and for professionals in the orthopaedic industry. This …read more.
Grace College’s Alpha Chi, an honor’s society consisting of over 300 chapters across the U.S., recently returned from attending the super-regional convention in Baltimore, MD. Nine students went to the convention led by Joseph Lehmann, English professor at Grace and the chapter’s faculty sponsor. Out of the six students that presented, two students — Rebecca Roberts …read more.
The first cohort of MBA students who earned their degree through Grace’s new online degree program graduated on May 19 along with other students at the Orthopedic Capital Center in Winona Lake, Ind. Tim Ziebarth, Director of the Department of Online Education stated, “I hope that this group of graduates will be the first of many to …read more.
WINONA LAKE, IND. – Grace College’s 2012 Presidential Scholarship Competition saw 166 prospective students participate in the school’s most prestigious annual scholarship contest this February. Competitors may win anywhere from $1,000-$25,000 per year, but the $25,000 award—known aptly as the Presidential Scholarship—is reserved for one winner. This year, it went to Buffalo Grove, IL resident, …read more.
Grace College will be holding Lancer Athletic Camps on the Grace College campus throughout the summer for seven different sports. Grace College began holding boys’ basketball camps in 1968 and has since grown to also offer girls’ basketball, boys’ and girls’ soccer, volleyball, softball and tennis. Each camp will be directed both by Grace College coaches …read more.
WINONA LAKE, IND. – Grace College scholarship figured prominently into a unique new title from Pickwick Publications (Wipf and Stock) published early this April. “The Activist Impulse” features numerous pieces of research and commentary on the history and intersection of the Anabaptist and evangelical movements in North America and was co-edited by Grace’s own Dr. …read more.










