Director of Debate and Forensics Ken Troyer believes in giving back, and he is teaching his students to do the same. This summer, Troyer and his debate team member, Nolan Chaney of South Hutchinson, Kan., had the opportunity to serve together at the Heart of America Debate Institute.
Several new faculty members are joining the College this year.
Dr. Adebukola Gbade-Oyelakin has been named to the Talmon Bell Chair of Mathematics at Sterling College.
Assistant Professor of Language and Literature Mark Watney spent much of his summer reading and studying classical Greek plays as he prepared to attend a Harvard-sponsored seminar on Song Culture of Athenian Drama.
Members of the Women's Soccer team recently returned from Anchorage, Alaska, where they spent six days working with the Mountain View Boys and Girls Club and in local parks hosting soccer clinics for kids. The team left on July 22 and returned July 29.
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Sports Information Directors Association (NAIA-SIDA) awarded the 2011 Sterling College Football Media Guide fifth place in the 2011-2012 NAIA-SIDA Football Brochure Publication Contest.
No one knows a college as well as its alumni. That is the theory Sterling College used this summer in hiring three alumni into its Admissions Office. 
Carol Ludwick and Adedrea Smart ’12 were recently hired to fill two positions on campus. 
Tom Borrego was hired to fill the director of planned giving vacancy. Borrego began working for Sterling on July 9.