Lindenwood University’s School of Education will hold the first meeting of its reorganized 2016-2017 Teacher Education Advisory Panel at 5:30 p.m. on April 18 in the university’s Anheuser-Busch Leadership Room, located in the Spellmann Campus Center on the St. Charles campus.
St. Louis University’s Stefan M. Bradley will present “Rescuing American Democracy: Black Youth and the March to Freedom” as part of Lindenwood University’s American Culture Speaker Series at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 9, in Harmon Hall’s Dunseth Auditorium.
A team of students from Lindenwood University’s Robert W. Plaster School of Business & Entrepreneurship was one of six from Missouri and Illinois to take part in the Certified Financial Analysts Society of St. Louis competition on Feb. 17 at Edward D. Jones in St. Louis.
Lindenwood University alumna Racheal Beard, who founded Lindenwood Belleville’s cheerleading program five years ago, has returned to lead the Lynx cheer squad. “When I left the first time, I really didn’t want to leave, and I never fully went away,” explained Beard, who stepped down to focus on a new job as a nursing professor at another university. “I’m so glad to have the opportunity to come back and pick up where I left off.”
Lindenwood University-Belleville will hold an open house for potential transfer students Thursday, April 6.
Lindenwood University’s Hammond Institute and Gender Studies Program are jointly presenting a program on society’s notions of masculinity, featuring two leading intellectuals on the subject, at 6:30 p.m. March 1 in the Spellmann Campus Center’s Anheuser-Busch Leadership Room on the university’s St. Charles campus.
The future of Southern Illinois transportation passed last week through Lindenwood University-Belleville. The university on Feb. 6 hosted the Southwestern Illinois Leadership Council’s regional transportation discussion panel. During the event, state and private transportation leaders pondered the future of multi-modal priorities, America’s Central Port, Mid-America Airport, and transportation funding in Illinois.
Sportscasters John Kelly, of the St. Louis Blues, and Dan McLaughlin, of the St. Louis Cardinals, will speak at 4 p.m. on Feb. 21 at Lindenwood University’s Anheuser-Busch Leadership Room in the Spellmann Campus Center. The event benefits Lindenwood’s chapter of the National Broadcasting Society—Alpha Epsilon Rho, which is presenting the event with the university’s School of Arts, Media, and Communication.
For the second time, Lindenwood University has been named a Best of Western St. Charles County Award winner by the Western St. Charles Chamber of Commerce and Community News. Lindenwood representatives accepted the honor during the Chamber’s February membership meeting.
A 10-year-long passion project for Lindenwood University-Belleville Assistant Professor of History Jennifer Welsh has finally been completed in the form of her first published book. Now that The Cult of St. Anne in Medieval and Early Modern Europe has been released, Welsh said she hopes to get to work on a second book. She just hopes the next literary work she’s planning doesn’t take nearly as long to finish.
