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’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 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 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 is offering a new graduate program intended to provide lay people, pastors, church staff and ministry leaders the tools and resources to develop a framework for spiritual formation while growing personally and spiritually as well. The Master of Arts in Christian Spiritual Formation and Leadership (MACSFL) is a two-year graduate program that combines […]

Friends University will present “Jazz Meets the Beatles” Oct. 24, 2016, in the Riney Fine Arts Center’s Sebits Auditorium. This fun and entertaining evening will feature the big bands and jazz vocal ensemble performing jazz versions of famous Beatles tunes. All the students will be wearing outfits from the 1960s, and anyone who dresses in […]

The Friends University Jazz program will hold a new Jazz Combo Showcase Wednesday, Oct. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Sebits Auditorium. The special guest artist will be jazz violinist and guitarist, Steve Story. The concert will also feature the Friends University combos and a guest combo from Hutchinson Community College. Performance date: Wednesday, October 12 […]