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Mount
Mercy College Board of Trustees Approves Strategic Plan to Move
to University Status by 2012
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (May 3, 2008) – Mount Mercy College President
Christopher Blake today announced that the institution’s
Board of Trustees, under the direction of Chairman Charles A.
Rohde, has approved a new strategic plan that will guide the institution
through 2012. The strategic plan endorses the goal of Mount Mercy
College transitioning to Mount Mercy University by 2012. [more]
Daughter
of Late Robert F. Kennedy to Give Keynote Address at Mount Mercy
College Commencement
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (May 2, 2008) – Kathleen Kennedy Townsend,
daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, will be the keynote speaker
at Mount Mercy College commencement exercises on Saturday, May
17 at 10:00 a.m. at the U.S. Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids.
[more]
Mount
Mercy College to Host Discussion on Proposed Wall Between Texas
and Mexico Border
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (May 2, 2008) – Mount Mercy College’s
Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), along with the college’s
Campus Ministry, will host an informational discussion regarding
the proposed construction of a wall between the Texas and Mexico
border. The discussion, titled “Take a Stand,” will
take place on Wednesday, May 7 beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Flaherty
Community Room, Basile Hall, on the Mount Mercy campus and is
free and open to the public. [more]
Mount
Mercy College to Host Drama Camp
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (May 1, 2008) – Mount Mercy College will host
a drama camp for 6th through 8th grade students June 16-20 from
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. each day. Registration fee for the camp
is $75 and is due by June 6.
[more]
Mount
Mercy College Names Registrar
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (April 29, 2008) – Mount Mercy College has
announced that Jason M. Clapp has been named to the position of
registrar.
[more]
Mount
Mercy Choir to Perform Spring Concert
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (April 25, 2008) – Mount Mercy College will
hold its annual Spring Concert in the Stello Performance Hall,
Warde Hall, on the Mount Mercy campus on May 6 at 7:30 p.m. This
event is free and open to the public.
[more]
Mount
Mercy College to Host Author Ethan Canin
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (May 1, 2008) – Author Ethan Canin will visit
Mount Mercy College on May 1, 2008. A question and answer period
will be held at 3:30 p.m., followed by a reading at 7:30 p.m.
Both sessions will be held the Flaherty Community Room located
in Basile Hall and are free and open to the public.
[more]
Inspirational
Speaker Karen McCaa to Present at Mount Mercy College
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (April 24, 2008) – Inspirational Speaker Karen
McCaa will speak at Mount Mercy College on April 29 at 7:30 p.m.
in the Chapel of Mercy on the Mount Mercy campus. Her presentation,
The Champion in You!, will focus on what makes a champion and
how to become one, and how to seize dreams. The event is free
and open to the public.
[more]
Mount
Mercy College to Host Area High School Students for 32nd Annual
High School Art Day
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (April 24, 2008) – Mount Mercy College will
host the 32nd Annual High School Art Day on Friday, April 25.
The day will feature the work of New York City artist Duane Slick.
Slick will talk about his work with more than 200 area high school
art students.
[more]
Mount Mercy Hosting Xavier High School Students for Leadership
Retreat
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (April 23, 2008) – Today 189 juniors from Xavier
High School are attending a leadership retreat at Mount Mercy
College. The theme for the day is Servant Leadership through the
Corporal Works of Mercy.
[more]
Mount
Mercy Student Newspaper and Staff Win Honors
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (April 17, 2008) – Mount Mercy College’s
students newspaper, the Mount Mercy Times, and several members
of the newspaper staff received awards from the Iowa College Media
Association (ICMA) in the 2007 Better Student Newspaper Contest.
[more]
Mount
Mercy College to Produce Rabbit Hole
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (April 17, 2008) – Mount Mercy College’s
Theater Department will Present Rabbit Hole, a student-directed
play on April 24, 25, and 26 at 7:30 p.m. each evening. The play
will debut in the McAuley Theater, located in Lower McAuley Hall
on the Mount Mercy Campus. [more]
Mount
Mercy College Names Director of Institutional Research
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (April 14, 2008) – Mount Mercy College has
announced that Lori K. Heying has been named director of institutional
research for the College. [more]
Mount
Mercy College Host Chicago Bronze Handbell Choir
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (April 14, 2008) – Mount Mercy College will
host a workshop and concert performed by the Chicago Bronze Handbell
Choir on Saturday, April 26 in the Chapel of Mercy on the Mount
Mercy campus. [more]
Mount
Mercy College Professor to Address Chinese and Anglo-American
Race and Culture
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (April 9, 2008) – Dr. Edy Parsons, assistant
professor of history at Mount Mercy College, will speak regarding
racial and cultural relationships between Chinese and Anglo-Americans.
The presentation, entitled, “Facing the Aliens: How Chinese
and Americans Viewed Each Other, 1870s-1940s,” will take
place on April 22 at 7:30p.m. in the Flaherty Community Room located
in Basile Hall, on the Mount Mercy campus. [more]
Holocaust
Speaker to Give Presentation at Mount Mercy
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (April 9, 2008) – Holocaust Survivor, Hedy
Epstein, will speak at Mount Mercy College on Wednesday April
16 at 7:00 p.m. in Betty Cherry Heritage Hall. This event is free
and open to the public. [more]
Mount
Mercy College to Host Giant Panda Expert
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (April 9, 2008) – Dr. Gary Machlis, Canon Professor
of Conservation at the University of Idaho, will speak at Mount
Mercy College on April 14 regarding his giant panda research.
The presentation, which will be held in the Flaherty Community
Room beginning at 7:30 p.m., is free and open to the public. [more]
Mount
Mercy College Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Win Eleventh
Consecutive Regional Competition
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (March 26, 2008) – Mount Mercy
College’s Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team won its
eleventh consecutive SIFE Regional Championship March 26 in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. The Mount Mercy team advances to the SIFE National
Competition to be held May 12-May 14 in Chicago, Illinois. [more]
Mount
Mercy College to Host National Forensic DNA Expert
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (March 25, 2008) – Nationally
recognized authority on forensic DNA evidence Albert E. “Buzz”
Scherr will host a question and answer session at 3:30 p.m. on
April 8 in Mount Mercy’s Flaherty Community Room, Basile
Hall and will speak at 7:30 p.m. in Mount Mercy’s Flaherty
Community Room. The title of Scherr’s talk is, “Do
You Know Where Your DNA Is? Genetics, Privacy & the Constitution.”
The question and answer session and the presentation are both
free and open to the public. [more]
Author
Joy Castro to Visit Mount Mercy College
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (March 20, 2008) – Joy Castro,
author of The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among
Jehovah’s Witnesses (Arcade Publishing), will host a question
and answer session at 3:30 p.m. on April 10 in Mount Mercy’s
Flaherty Community Room, Basile Hall. Castro will read from her
works at Mount Mercy on April 10 at 7:30 p.m., also in Flaherty
Community Room. The question and answer session and the reading
are both free and open to the public. [more]
Mount Mercy to Host OPERA Iowa Performance
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (March 19, 2008) – Mount Mercy
College will host a performance by Des Moines Metro Opera’s
educational touring troupe on Thursday, April 3 at 7:00 p.m. The
performance will be held in the Stello Performance Hall in Warde
Hall on the Mount Mercy College campus. The troupe will be performing
Gaetano Donizetti’s Don Pasquale at Mount Mercy. The show
is free and open to the public.[more]
Mount Mercy M.B.A. Program Begins
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (March 17, 2008) – Mount Mercy College
kicked off its inaugural MBA program on Saturday, March 15 with
a celebratory luncheon in Betty Cherry Heritage Hall. All 27 members
of the inaugural class were invited to join Graduate Studies Director
Dr. Melody Graham and MBA Program Director Tom Castle, as well
as faculty members Dr. Ayman Amer and Kathryn Coulter. Twenty
members of the MBA class are former Mount Mercy graduates and
the average age of those enrolled is 40. Mount Mercy’s MBA
program allows students to complete the degree in less than two
years while maintaining full-time employment. [more]
Portuguese Artists to Discuss Works at Mount Mercy College
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (March 14, 2008) – As part of a collaboration
between Mount Mercy College, Grinnell College and the University
of Northern Iowa, Portuguese artists Antonio Pinto, Teresa Furtado
and Paula Reaes Pinto will discuss their works at Mount Mercy
College on Thursday, March 27 beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Betty
Cherry Heritage Hall on the Mount Mercy campus. [more]
Mount
Mercy M.B.A. Program to Begin
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (March 14, 2008) – On Saturday, March 15 Mount
Mercy College will officially kick off its MBA program with the
start of two courses, and will hold a celebratory luncheon for
those students in the inaugural MBA program. Mount Mercy’s
Masters programs in Business and Education allow students to complete
the programs in less than two years while maintaining full-time
employment. [more]
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