March 5, 2014
Story by Joe Vinduska
Submitted Photo
The 91快活林 Foundation kicked off its Annual Academic Enrichment Fund Campaign titled 鈥淪lide Rules to Smartphones鈥 on March 1.听 Longtime supporter and former employee of the college Paul Maneth will serve as the chairman for the month-long fundraising drive.
March 4, 2014
Story and Photo by Joe Vinduska
91快活林 and Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina have started a partnership by听signing a transfer agreement Tuesday on the Barton County campus. 听
The agreement is designed to make transferring to KWU seamless for Barton students.听 The agreement guarantees students who graduate from Barton with an associate of arts or science degree and a 2.0 GPA or higher admission to KWU as a junior.
February 11, 2014
Story and photo by Brandon Steinert
Amanda Moran-Jones is a beloved local celebrity. She can hardly go to the grocery store without getting hugged or inspiring shouts of excitement, "It's Miss Amanda!"
Of course, her fan base is primarily Barton County area children as the Children's Librarian at the Great Bend Public Library.
February 25, 2014
Story and photos by Joe Vinduska
February 3, 2014
Story and photos by Joe Vinduska
Life for Debbie Tomlinson was not easy growing up.听 Her mother died of lung cancer when she was young and she moved to Kansas from California with her abusive, alcoholic father.听 She was beaten often and at the age of 15 she was kicked out of her house.听 She bounced around from home to home and eventually wound up married and pregnant at the age of 17.听 The lack of her home life stability coupled with her pregnancy caused her to drop out of high school, a decision she immediately regretted.
February 18, 2014
Story and photo by Brandon Steinert
The primary goals driving most educational pursuits are to discover to a rewarding vocation and earn a respectable living wage.
A traditional bachelor鈥檚 degree requires four-years, or more, of commitment. 91快活林 has a smorgasbord of offerings in the medical field that will help students reach those goals in two years or less.
91快活林 served 8,394 students in the fall semester of 2013, which is an increase of 272 students from the previous fall semester.
The most widely accepted metric to measure enrollment is Full Time Equivalency (FTE). This is calculated by taking the total credit hours provided and dividing by 15 credit hours per semester, which is the average course load for a full time student. This standard allows Barton to see how it鈥檚 doing relative to other colleges and past semesters.
Barton saw an increase of about 4.2 percent in FTE from fall 2012 to fall 2013.
January 16, 2014
Story by Joe Vinduska
91快活林 in , Kan., has named 239 students to the President鈥檚 List for the fall 2013 semester.听 To qualify for this honor, students must have been enrolled in a minimum of 12 credit hours and maintained a grade point average of 4.0 on a 4.0 or "A" letter scale.
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Abilene听
Susan Riley
Matthew Schlagel
Andover听
Mackenzie Orchard