The Friends University Community Orchestra Concert will perform Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in Sebits Auditorium, Riney Fine Arts Center on the Friends University campus. The program will feature the winner of the Miller Concerto Competition, Amanda Hawkins, playing Kabalevsky’s Third Piano Concerto and the winner of the Wichita Metropolitan Music Teachers Association piano […]

Friends University Concert Choir members will share their voices Sunday, April 24, at 7 p.m. in Casado Campus Center on the Friends University campus. Concert Choir presented its first Coffeehouse in spring 2006 with much success and the rest has been history! Join us this year, on Sunday, April 24, at 7 p.m. in the Casado […]

Phi Theta Kappa has recognized Friends University as a member of the inaugural Excellence in Community College Transfer Honor Roll, which identifies the top four-year colleges and universities for creating dynamic pathways to support community college transfer. Friends University is one of only 40 institutions across the nation and the only private university in Kansas […]

The Friends University Singing Quakers will present the Symphony of Spring concert featuring the theme “Earth, Wind, Fire and Rain.” The performances will run Friday and Saturday, April 22-23, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 24, at 2 p.m. in Sebits Auditorium. This is the Singing Quakers’ final concert of the season celebrating the power […]

Earth Day is scheduled for April 22 this year and as that day approaches, Friends University is celebrating some recent and ongoing environmentally friendly initiatives on its campus. “Our students care deeply about the environment on a global, national and local scale, and they want to be sure their university of choice shares their concern,” […]

The Friends University Faculty Brass Quintet will perform Thursday, April 14, at 7:30 p.m. in Alumni Auditorium in the Davis Administration Building at Friends University. The Faculty Brass Quintet will perform Quintet No. 2 by Victor Ewald. The Ewald quintets are recognized standards within the repertoire, and the Faculty Brass Quintet includes them regularly in their […]

The Friends University Concert Choir will perform Monday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Sebits Auditorium. Through the ages, music has been used to express the many components of nature and mankind. The concert will feature music from Charpentier to Copland, chant to gospel, and more as we travel through the course of creation as […]

The Friends University Jazz Vocal Ensemble will conclude its concert season with a special on-campus performance Friday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Sebits Auditorium in the Riney Fine Arts Center. The performance is titled “Wishing on Stars and Loving on Mars.” The ensemble is made up of 12 vocalists and a four-piece rhythm section […]

Friends University is launching a new graduate degree in cyber security that will prepare graduates to be on the front line of defense against hackers determined to do harm. The Master of Science in Cyber Security (MSCS) is a two-year graduate program for leaders who are responsible for defending the critical information infrastructure of the […]

Friends University’s Percussion Group will perform April 6, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in the Riney Fine Art Center’s Sebits Auditorium. The Percussion Group will present a concert of music from Brazil and West Africa with guest artist Chris Reichmeier. This will be a fun, high-energy show including samba band music as one sees during a […]