Friends University will honor approximately 500 students at this year’s commencement ceremony Saturday, May 7, 2016, at INTRUST Bank Arena. The guest speaker will be U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran. The ceremony is scheduled for 2 p.m., Saturday, May 7, at INTRUST Bank Arena in Wichita. The ceremony will recognize graduates from the university’s Wichita, Topeka […]

  The Friends University Concert Band will join the Senseney Music Community Band to perform at an outdoor benefit concert Sunday, May 1, 2016, at 3 p.m. The concert will benefit Youth Horizons, and a free-will offering will be collected. Guest soloist Earnest Alexander will join the bands. Bring lawn chairs or blankets as no […]

Two exhibitions featuring Friends University student artwork will be featured as part of this month’s Final Friday April 29. Both exhibitions and receptions are free and open to the public. 2016 Senior Art Show Friends University senior art students will present their 2016 senior show at a brand new gallery on Commerce Street, All City […]

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 […]