Kevin DeYoung, Pastor, Author, Evangelical Leader to deliver Covenant College 2011 Commencement Address
Covenant College will celebrate its 56th commencement on Saturday, May 7, 2011, and pastor Kevin DeYoung will deliver this year’s commencement address. A prolific author and blogger, DeYoung has been senior pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing, Michigan, since 2004. He is the author of five books, including Why We’re Not Emergent and... Continue Reading
Covenant College Debate Society Members Place High in Competition, Advance to Nationals
CovenantCollege’s young Debate Society made an impressive showing at a recent competition, and three Covenant students qualified for the national tournament. The Tennessee Porch Swing tournament, held at CarsonNewmanCollege on November 20-21, 2009, hosted 85 students from fourteen schools. Covenant’s Sarah Swygard ’13 and Zach Robbins ’12 took first and second place, respectively, in the... Continue Reading
“How Shall The Young?”
Commentary “The people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned” (Matthew 4:16). This prophecy from Isaiah 9:2 is applied by Matthew to the beginning days of Jesus’ ministry as he began to preach about the Kingdom of... Continue Reading
Brad Voyles Promoted to Vice President for Student Development at Covenant College
Brad Voyles has been promoted to Vice President for Student Development/Dean of Students at CovenantCollege in Lookout Mountain, Ga. Niel Nielson, President of Covenant College, an agency of the Presbyterian Church in America announced the promotion on November 5. “Over these last five years, Brad has demonstrated outstanding and creative leadership in all the aspects... Continue Reading
Covenant College Physics Lab Receives National Science Foundation Grant
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a grant of $178,935 to CovenantCollege for the construction of a laboratory dedicated to researching thin film growth and characterization under the direction of Dr. Phill Broussard, associate professor of physics. As he explains it, Broussard and his students “will be growing metallic films 100-1000 atoms thick... Continue Reading
Brock Hall Opens at Covenant College
Lookout Mountain, Ga. – On August 28, 2008, at the 54th annual convocation of Covenant College, President Niel Nielson will announce the naming of two new additions to Covenant’s campus: a new academic building, Brock Hall, and the newest portion of the campus green, the Dottie BrockGardens. These names honor former Covenant College president... Continue Reading
National Magazines Rank Covenant College High on Their Lists
Two national magazines have ranked CovenantCollege high on their lists of U.S. colleges. In its 2009 edition of America’s Best Colleges, U.S.News & World Report ranks Covenant College #4 among baccalaureate colleges in the South and #4 in the “Great Schools, Great Prices” category in the same field. Forbes Magazine, in its... Continue Reading
Covenant College Business Professor Quatro Co-Edits Book on Executive Ethics
Dr. Scott Quatro, associate professor of management in the Department of Business at Covenant College, has co-edited the book Executive Ethics: Ethical Dilemmas and Challenges for the C-Suite, published by Information Age Publishing. With co-editor Dr. Ronald Sims, professor of organizational behavior in the Mason School of Business at the College of William... Continue Reading