Sterling College has another National Champion on campus. Freshman Cody Brooks became the National Champion of Novice International Parliamentary Debate at the Pi Kappa Delta National Tournament held at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Fla., on March 10-12. Brooks is from Sterling, Kan.

Tournaments for the last two years have been online due to COVID restrictions. This was the first in-person tournament for the team in two years. 

For the summer of 2022, Sterling College is offering all general education courses for the low price of $145 per credit hour. The list of classes has been released with classes beginning May 10 and June 28. Visit online.sterling.edu/summer-discount-class-offerings/ for information.

Dr. Roy Millhouse, associate professor of biblical studies and chair of the Theology and Ministry Department, will be the speaker for the 2022 Sterling College Commencement ceremony. The ceremony will honor the Class of 2022 and will take place on Saturday, May 7, at 9:45 a.m. in the Gleason Physical Education Center on the Sterling College campus.

Millhouse has served the College since 2014 in the Theology and Ministry Department. He previously taught at Baylor University and the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. He has also served as a pastor in Arkansas and Texas. 

Sterling College music and theatre students are quite comfortable doing music theatre with shows like “Legally Blonde” and “Newsies.”  For their next public performance, they are venturing into the world of opera, many for the first time. Their concert “A Night at the Opera” will be presented this Sunday, March 27 at 6 p.m. in Upper Wilson Hall on the college campus. The concert will include vocal solos and duets as well as group numbers from both Sterling College Concert Choir and the Highland Singers.

What began as a simple one-time Easter worship experience for a single church in Kansas City has come to be performed well over 50 times across the US and even internationally in England, Australia, and other countries. It is “The Golgotha Experience” written and performed by Sterling College alum Leah (Frees) Roberts ’11 and her husband Jesse. They will be bringing their unique worship experience to Sterling College on Sunday, March 27 at 7 p.m. in Culbertson Auditorium. 

After a one-year hiatus due to COVID, Sterling College Art & Design students once again have a chance to show their work this year. The 2022 Student Juried Exhibition which is in the Sterling College Art Gallery through April 15. Works were selected by college art faculty Libby Reimer and Sia Joung. The works on exhibit range from digital photography, painting, printmaking, digital painting, and drawing. 

For the 5th consecutive year and 6th time in school history, Sterling College Forensics team has had a team member qualify for the National Interstate Oratory Competition. Paige Sherraden, a junior from Plainville, Kan., qualified by virtue of her performance throughout the season. 

Sherraden is one of two students from the state of Kansas that is afforded the opportunity to compete at the annual competition. With such an elite field, all bidding to be considered the most persuasive, the competition is fierce.