HUNTINGTON, Ind. – Zach Goodline's patented step-back three with five seconds remaining proved the game-winner in Huntington's 60-59 upset over #6 Indiana Wesleyan inside Platt Arena Wednesday night. It's the Foresters' second consecutive win over a Top-10 opponent.It was not the type of game that either side is accustomed to. Both squads can put up a lot of points but on this given night, offense did not come easy. Fifty-nine points matched a season-low for the Wildcats who came into the contest averaging 79.5 ppg.
MARION, Ind. – Luckey Arena only seems lucky for the home team and Wednesday that proved true in a 75-60 battle that favored #7 Indiana Wesleyan (19-3) over the Foresters. The Wildcats have lost just five games on their home turf in the last three seasons.Tonight's win is IWU's second over HU this year as they continue to sit atop the league with an 11-1 record. With this loss, Huntington drops to 8-14 overall which includes a 3-9 CL record.
HUNTINGTON, Ind. – For the first time in Huntington history, the women's track and field program swept the NAIA national weekly indoor honors as announced earlier today.After claiming both conference T/F Athlete of the Week praises on Monday, Destiny Copeland and Addy Wiley garnered national attention by monopolizing the NAIA weekly honors too.
HUNTINGTON, Ind. – The USTFCCCA has announced that Huntington's Addy Wiley has been named the M-F Athletic National Athlete of the Week at the NAIA level for her extraordinary performance over the weekend at Indiana Tech's Warrior Indoor Invitational.In a matter of two hours, the freshman sensation raced her way to three impressive wins with all three times the best in the NAIA. Her first race was the 600 meters in which she clocked in at 1:29.77 which is the fastest-known time in NAIA history.
ADDISON, Ill. - The Huntington bowling program was back in action at the Kegel/ISBPA Collegiate Classic in Addison, IL over the weekend. The tournament format was five traditional team games on Saturday and 20 Baker games on Sunday."This is one of the biggest collegiate tournaments in the country with 71 men's and 62 women's teams from all over the country," said Coach Mike Shockey. "I was really proud of the women and their performance. It was a great team effort.
LAS VEGAS, Nev. - The HU bowling teams spent part of Christmas break in Las Vegas for a pair of Tier 1 bowling tournaments in the bowling pavilion at South Point Casino. The first tournament was the Glen Carlson Invitational which featured nine team games with the top eight teams moving on to match play.The second tournament was the Collegiate Shoot-out with a format of six team games followed by 16 Baker games.The HU women finished 13th out of 28 teams at the Glen Carlson Invite with a total pin count of 7,958 for a 884.2/game average. Amber Elliott led the Foresters with a 21st place individual finish out of 186 players with a 190 average which tallied 1,710 pins.
Huntington University is pleased to announce that the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) has Granted a Status of Accreditation for a period of seven years to Huntington University’s Doctoral Program in Occupational Therapy (OTD program) in Arizona. Seven years is the maximum number of years a new program can be accredited by ACOTE.
ACOTE’s endorsement is vital because without accreditation students cannot take the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT) Certification Examination. The NBCOT exam is the gateway for graduates to obtain licensure within their desired state.
HU received ACOTE accreditation for its OTD program located in Fort Wayne in 2016. This location also received the maximum seven-year accreditation. The HU Arizona OTD location received accreditation candidacy status in the fall of 2020.
“Achieving accreditation by the ACOTE is an important milestone in the founding of a graduate program in occupational therapy. We feel very thankful and blessed to have been granted full accreditation. This is the culmination of a long process of work involving me and the faculty,” said Evelyn Andersson, PhD, OTR/L, program director for OTD Arizona.
HU Arizona's Doctoral Program in Occupational Therapy (OTD program) is a three-year full-time degree program that accepted its first cohort of students in January of 2021. Since then, the program has boasted a 100% retention rate.
“Our program is designed to prepare graduates to provide state of the art occupational therapy services for people in the communities where they live,” said Andersson. “Our program aims to provide students with portfolios to be ready for future changing healthcare environments, marginalized populations, and emerging practice areas. We aspire to develop future practitioners who are equipped with ethics and values of cultural humility, ready to serve diverse groups of people, enabling everyone to participate at their full capacity in their valued occupations, thereby contributing to their communities, especially in the state of Arizona.”
To learn more about HU Arizona's OTD program, visit huntington.edu/Graduate/Occupational-Therapy/Arizona.
Huntington University Arizona opened its doors in 2016, welcoming students seeking a degree in digital media arts. The location expanded in 2021 to include doctoral level students seeking their doctoral degree in occupational therapy. HU Arizona is one of four locations of Huntington University. Huntington University is a comprehensive Christian college of the liberal arts offering graduate and undergraduate programs in more than 70 academic concentrations. U.S. News & World Report ranks Huntington among the best colleges in the Midwest, and Forbes.com has listed the university as one of America’s Best Colleges. Founded in 1897 by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, Huntington University is located on a contemporary lakeside campus in northeast Indiana. The nonprofit university is a member of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU).
On Saturday, February 4, at 2:00 p.m., the Purdue Men’s Varsity Glee Club will be performing in the Merillat Center for the Arts at Huntington University for a 90-minute concert. Purdue Varsity Glee Club members have proudly served as ambassadors of Purdue University for more than 125 years. Founded in 1893, this ensemble has performed for campus, community, state, national, and international events, including six U.S. presidential inaugurations and a meeting with Queen Elizabeth II. Glee Club members represent different backgrounds and hometowns in Indiana and across the world, consistently maintaining a high level of academic excellence with majors ranging from engineering to education to agriculture to biological sciences.
This dynamic musical troupe of 68 young men employs a versatile repertoire including gospel, vocal jazz, traditional hymns, swing, contemporary hits, romantic ballads, classical choral selections, barbershop, folk melodies, patriotic standards, familiar opera choruses, country, and novelty tunes, and utilizes small groups and outstanding soloists to further enhance each show. The Glee Club shares a sound all its own through one-of-a-kind arrangements in tailor-made performances for audiences of all ages. HU’s own Treblemakers will be joining PVGC onstage for part of the performance.
Tickets range from $10-15 and are available online at huntington.edu/mca/box-office.
Open auditions for HUTC’s production of Meet Me in St. Louis will be held on Thursday, January 19, between 3:00-6:00 p.m., with callbacks immediately following auditions. These auditions are open to any Huntington community member. Interested individuals can sign up for a timeslot online.
Meet Me in St. Louis is the stage adaptation of the classic 1944 film musical that examines one year in the life of the Smith family, who live in St. Louis just as the 1904 World's Fair is preparing to take place there — until the father's New York job offer threatens to take them away. The musical will run from March 30 - April 1, 2023.
For these auditions, there will be both a musical audition and a dance call. For the musical audition, please prepare 16-32 bars (no more than a minute) of a musical theatre song from a show written before 1965 (but NOT from Meet Me in St. Louis). An accompanist will be present; please bring sheet music in the key in which you will be singing it.
Dance auditions will also be on Thursday, January 19. You do not need to sign up for a time slot to participate in dance auditions, but you do need to learn the dance combination in this video and come prepared to perform it in small groups. A video of your audition will be sent to the choreographer.
To learn more, contact Director Ryan Long at rlong@huntington.edu.
INDIANAPOLIS—Huntington University’s RichLyn Library, a founding institution of the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI), is proudly celebrating the consortium’s 30th anniversary in 2022. Since its first library-to-library collaboration in the 1980s, PALNI has worked to advance the educational missions of its supported institutions by sharing resources and leveraging expertise. The consortium was approved as a nonprofit organization in 1992 and has grown to support 24 private colleges, universities and seminaries—serving more than 47,500 students and faculty throughout the state.
“PALNI is a trailblazer in collaboration at scale,” says Kirsten Leonard, PALNI Executive Director. “We are proud to be an organization that consortia worldwide turn to for guidance in leveraging the staff expertise within their supported institutions’ libraries to improve services to students, reduce duplication of efforts, and affordably provide a positive impact to the institutional mission that rivals larger research libraries.”
During its first three decades, PALNI has navigated the evolving challenges of higher education to attain notable success. What began as a joint initiative among libraries to make automation more affordable has transformed into a leading example of what it takes for academic libraries to work together and achieve more at scale. All supported institutions appoint a library dean or director to serve on PALNI’s board of directors, providing strategic and financial direction. Noelle Keller, Director of Library Services, represents Huntington University on the PALNI board.
Some of PALNI’s recent accomplishments include:
“Deep collaboration among PALNI librarians is a result of deep trust which has developed over the years. Our common commitment to offering the best possible services to our campuses has given us the drive to look for new ways to work together,” says Tonya Fawcett, Director of Library Services at Grace College and Theological Seminary and PALNI Board Chair. “So much of what we do is behind the scenes of the library front desk or website. But that is where we put in the work to provide our students and faculty the resources to learn and succeed in their fields of study.”
Across higher education, revenue is being squeezed while costs rise and the number of high school graduates declines. These challenges have required a significant shift in strategy for institutions around the idea of collaboration and partnership to strengthen their campuses in the years ahead. Many colleges and universities are looking to consortia like PALNI, which has been effectively pooling resources and expertise since its inception, as a model for the future.
“Over the years, PALNI has grown and changed in response to supported organizations’ library needs,” says Karl Stutzman, Director of Library Services at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary and PALNI Board Member. “On their own, libraries at relatively small schools lack the financial and human resources to deliver the services required to attract and retain students at their institutions. But together, PALNI libraries find that it’s not only possible to deliver these services, but it’s also something we can do with excellence.”
Academic libraries are not static organizations; they have historically been among the first to respond to changes in their institutions and higher education, despite diminishing budgetary and staff support. PALNI’s strengths lie in its community of experts’ ability to innovate and adapt to meet students’ needs, especially during times of uncertainty, and to share that work across their campuses.
“Without our PALNI colleagues, we could not offer the services our students, faculty, and administration have come to expect from our libraries,” says Fawcett. “PALNI’s joint effort to create a digital repository has expanded our reach to the other side of the globe as we have made our dissertations and theses discoverable and accessible online. Additionally, the amount and scope of the libraries’ resources have expanded exponentially. We are able to focus on our local collection specialties while simultaneously offering a wider range of academic resources from PALNI libraries, which can be delivered quickly and efficiently.”
Under the guidance of its Strategic Framework 2020-2023, PALNI strives to enhance the teaching and learning missions of its supported institutions through five areas of focus:
This framework is a dynamic planning tool that allows PALNI to evaluate needs and set priorities, adjusting action plans to optimize the consortium’s time, resources and expertise. Simultaneously, PALNI is expanding collaboration within its institutions and with external library partners to address challenges and build cost-effective services well into the future.
For information about PALNI, its supported institutions, and initiatives, visit the consortium online.
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About the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana
The Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI) is a non-profit organization that supports collaboration for library and information services for 24 colleges, universities and seminaries throughout the state. From its inception in 1992, the PALNI collaboration has been a key avenue for its supported institutions to contain costs while providing more effective library services. More recently, PALNI has adopted a model of deep collaboration that pools resources and people as a tool to expand services while keeping costs down. PALNI’s board of directors, composed of all 24 library deans and directors from the supported organizations, convened a Future Framing Task Force in 2019 to address ongoing demographic challenges in higher education. The board has escalated this work in the wake of COVID-19, as the consortium seeks to manage the increased need for online support while reducing costs. Simultaneously, PALNI is expanding collaboration within its institutions and with external library partners to address challenges and build cost-effective services. Visit the PALNI website for more information.
PALNI Supported Institutions
Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary | Anderson University | Bethel University | Butler University | Concordia Theological Seminary | Christian Theological Seminary | DePauw University | Earlham College | Franklin College | Goshen College | Grace College | Hanover College | Huntington University | Manchester University | Marian University | Oakland City University | University of Saint Francis | Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College | Saint Mary’s College | Saint Meinrad’s Seminary and School of Theology | Taylor University | Trine University | University of Indianapolis | Wabash College
About Huntington University
Huntington University is a comprehensive Christian college of the liberal arts offering award-winning graduate and undergraduate programs in more than 70 academic concentrations. Founded in Huntington, Indiana, in 1897 by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, Huntington University has over a century of experience educating graduates who are ready to impact the world for Christ through scholarship and service. The nonprofit university operates at three academic locations, including the original home campus in Huntington, a doctoral program in occupational therapy location in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and an undergraduate and doctoral program location in Peoria, Arizona. Online programs are also available. Huntington University’s home campus offers 17 men’s and women’s athletic programs, and the university is a member of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU).
Huntington University congratulates the 2022 alumni award recipients: Greg Smitley, Class of 1980, and Kevin Byerley, Class of 2000. Smitley is receiving the Distinguished Alumnus Award, and Byerley is receiving the Alumnus of the Year Award.
The Distinguished Alumnus Award is designed to recognize distinguished service or achievement over a longer period of time (like a lifetime achievement award). Those who nominated Greg Smitley for this award painted a very clear picture of a man who is invested in his community, cares about making a difference and strives for excellence and growth.
Smitley has made a career in the banking industry for more than 40 years. He has served in a variety of roles, from branch manager to senior lender to bank president. He distinguished himself among his peers by being selected as the Indiana representative to the Bankers Advisory Board of the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the nation’s most prestigious banking school. In his final year on the Board, he was selected as chairman and served on the Education Committee and as a guest lecturer. Additionally, he has served his local community through his involvement in many organizations, including Junior Achievement, the Grabill Town Board, Huntington County Economic Development, Rotary International, and the Huntington County Community Foundation Board.
He has served his alma mater as Alumni Board president and as a member of the President’s Advisory Council on Excellence (PACE), the Huntington University Foundation Board and the Board of Trustees. Smitley was HU’s vice president for finance for five years. His time in that position was marked by notable developments that included negotiating the lease and directing remodeling for the Arizona location, coordinating construction of the Ware Plant Science Production Facility (greenhouse) and the new admissions wing, outsourcing maintenance services to a professional maintenance company, installing heating and cooling in Becker Hall, the relocation of the Academic Center for Excellence and board room in RichLyn Library, the occupational therapy assistant lab, the Multicultural House, and updating the University's fleet of vehicles. He was also instrumental in beginning the planning stages for the HUB remodel and what is now the Don Strauss Animal Science Education Center.
The Alumnus of the Year Award is designed to recognize recent outstanding achievement, recognition or service. This award may not be given each year and may not be limited to one alumnus per year.
Kevin Byerley received multiple nominations for this award, and while reading through them, the Huntington University Alumni Association quickly saw some common themes. Words like “mentor” were common in the nominations. Phrases like “true leader” and “passion for helping kids” were repeated. Though his career of helping others is vast and his impact is far reaching, it is his leadership of Elevate USA that has earned him this award.
Byerley joined Colorado UpLift in 2002, first as a teacher-mentor working with the youth of Southwest Denver. His passion for helping kids led him to develop the Adventure Program, where students use the outdoor classroom to build resiliency. He later served as director of staff operation, utilizing his experience building high-functioning teams to bring the staff together in collaboration. Today, Kevin serves as CEO of Elevate USA, where he helps ensure that they build a national culture of “best practice” innovation and mission alignment with the affiliates they serve. As a first-generation undergraduate and graduate degree holder, Kevin models for students the importance of education and character and uses his platform as CEO to advocate for the “unseen, unknown, and unheard.”
Visit HU’s YouTube page to see the award recipient videos.
Huntington University is a comprehensive Christian college of the liberal arts offering award-winning graduate and undergraduate programs in more than 70 academic concentrations. Founded in Huntington, Indiana, in 1897 by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, Huntington University has over a century of experience educating graduates who are ready to impact the world for Christ through scholarship and service. The nonprofit university operates at three academic locations, including the original home campus in Huntington, a doctoral program in occupational therapy location in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and an undergraduate and doctoral program location in Peoria, Arizona. Online programs are also available. Huntington University’s home campus offers 17 men’s and women’s athletic programs, and the university is a member of the Council for Christian Colleges
The Huntington University Foundation is pleased to announce that Steve Ness, owner of Ness Bros. Realtors & Auctioneers, will receive the 2022 Distinguished Service Award on December 14 at the December Foundation Breakfast.
Ness, a Huntington County native who has successfully run a real estate and auction business for more than 40 years, has long been a supporter of Huntington University — particularly the men’s basketball program. He spearheaded efforts to start the Meet the Team event during the Steve Platt coaching years, and that event has continued for decades. Additionally, Ness sponsors the Hall of Fame Classic tournament each November.
“Steve is certainly recognized as a leader in our community,” said Peggy Platt, wife of Steve Platt and friend of the Ness family. “When he is asked to help with something, [Steve] never says ‘I’ll try.’ He responds with, ‘I’d be glad to!’”
According to nominators, Steve has been very active with the Huntington County 4-H Horse & Pony project, the annual 4-H auction of livestock during the Fair and the biennial 4-H fundraising auction — all at no charge or fee to the 4-H program.
The Huntington University Foundation established the Distinguished Service Award in 2002 to recognize individuals or organizations that embody the principles associated with the mission of the University. Recipients are chosen because they give substance and credence to the University's beliefs, make significant contributions to Huntington County and serve as effective role models for students. The Foundation Breakfast will take place in Habecker Dining Commons. Doors open at 7:30 a.m. and breakfast will be served at 7:45 a.m. The cost is $12 per person but is free to first-time attenders. RSVPs are appreciated.
Founded in 1938, the Huntington University Foundation exists to support the mission of the University by promoting education and fostering a synergistic relationship between the University and the Huntington County community and surrounding area. To learn more about the Foundation’s history and ways to support its goals, visit huntington.edu/Foundation.
On October 21-22, Huntington University hosted its first Spirit of a Forester Scholarship Competition. The process for attendees included an onsite extemporaneous essay and faculty/staff interviews as well as opportunities for extra credit that aligned with the University’s Spirit of a Forester traits. The competition awarded scholarships ranging from full tuition to $16,000. The recipient of the full tuition scholarship is Matthew Nasir from Elletsville, Indiana. Nasier plans to study history and political science with a focus on pre-law.
Additional scholarship recipients include the following:
The Spirit of a Forester Scholarship Competition is a two-day event including a dinner and evening programing on Friday and a competition day on Saturday. A second Spirit of a Forester Scholarship Competition will take place in February 2023. If you would like additional information, please email admissions@huntington.edu.