Dr. Chris Habben, professor of marriage and family therapy, Kansas City site program director, and Kansas City site specialized accreditation and assessment administrator, received this year’s Faculty of Distinction Award from the Kansas Independent College Association (KICA). Dr. Habben was honored, along with faculty members from the other 18 accredited private colleges in Kansas, at […]

Friends University will present the Percussion Group in the Riney Fine Arts Center’s Sebits Auditorium on November 1, 2016. The Friends University Percussion Group (FUPG) will present a concert tracing the influence of minimalist composer Steve Reich. Steve Reich is one of the most important composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. He is one […]

Friends University will present the Faculty Brass Quintet in the Riney Fine Arts Center’s Sebits Auditorium at 3 p.m. Nov. 13, 2016. The concert will feature, among other works, two major works for Brass Quintet, including Malcolm Arnold’s Quintet and Anthony Plog’s Animal Ditties VII. Asher Isaac will be featured as narrator on the Animal […]

Friends University’s Chamber Orchestra will present its fall concert Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. in the Riney Fine Arts Center’s Sebits Auditorium. The concert will include Antonio Vivaldi’s Bassoon concerto in C major and will feature faculty bassoonist Kimme Whittemore. Student violinist Brandon Lay will perform Pablo de Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen. In addition to […]

The Friends University Concert Band will present a concert Monday, Nov. 7, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. in the Riney Fine Arts Center’s Sebits Auditorium. The annual Standards Concert features standard repertoire composed for wind band, including Variations on a Korean Folk Song by John Barnes Chance and Trittico by Vaclav Nelhybel. Dr. David Ray Turnbull […]

Friends University will present the Jazz Vocal and Jazz Ensemble II in a joint concert in the Riney Fine Arts Center’s Sebits Auditorium Nov. 4, 2016. Both groups will perform a wide variety of jazz styles. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Sebits Auditorium, located in the Riney Fine Arts Center at 2100 […]

A variety of ghosts, goblins, fairy princesses, superheroes and more will make their way to the annual Trick-or-Treat Off the Street event at Friends University from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27. The event starts at Friends Village, 628 S. Hiram Ave. Children 12 and younger accompanied by their guardians will play games and […]

Friends University inducted four former Falcons into the University’s Athletic Hall of Fame Friday, Oct. 7. The Athletic Hall of Fame Ceremony and Alumni Dinner was held in Casado Campus Center’s McKay Gymnasium during homecoming week. The inductees were: Errol Logue, a 1963 graduate, competed in track and cross country during college for all four […]

Friends University’s online Master of Business Administration with an accounting concentration was ranked No. 20 in the nation by affordableschools.net. David Hofmeister, dean of the College of Graduate and Professional Studies, noted that “Affordability is one of the top issues graduate students consider when making a decision about a master’s degree. Friends University is very […]

Friends University has been named one of “America’s Best Colleges for Adult Learners” by “Washington Monthly.” Friends University is ranked No. 91 in the nation and is the only private university in Kansas on the list of four-year colleges. “Because more than 40 percent of students in America are age 25 or older, there is […]