Recent News

November

• Nov 20: Dockery, Thornbury, Mitchell sign Manhattan Declaration
• Nov 18: Debate team preparing to host first tournament Nov. 20-21
• Nov 16: Union earns Best Delegation honor at TISL
• Nov 13: Lean wins AME Best Paper Award
• Nov 11: Dockery: Union wants to be more connected to TBC than ever
• Nov 10: Union wraps up Homecoming Week 2009
• Nov 9: ‘Zombies from the Beyond’ opens Nov. 12
• Nov 5: Brabenec to lecture Nov. 12
• Nov 5: School of Pharmacy to host memory walk Nov. 14
• Nov 4: More than 900 serve as part of seventh annual Campus and Community day
• Nov 3: Social work program to show documentary on urban poverty
• Nov 2: Henry Institute to show documentary on stem cell research

October

• Oct 30: Union hosts BP journalism conference
• Oct 30: Platt encourages Union students to forsake earthly comforts in pursuit of Christ’s worldwide glory
• Oct 29: Union to celebrate Homecoming week Nov. 2-7; Vandy game Oct. 30 to kick off festivities
• Oct 28: Union’s seventh annual Campus and Community day set for Nov. 4
• Oct 26: Union to host ‘Career U’ Oct. 29
• Oct 22: Town and Gown series on Christians and the environment begins Oct. 26
• Oct 21: Rice: World needs U.S. economic prosperity, commitment to democracy
• Oct 20: Baker to lecture on secularism’s failure
• Oct 19: Platt to preach at Faith and Practice series Oct. 21-23
• Oct 19: Second annual commemorative walk will honor those victimized by homicide
• Oct 19: Cowan to perform at McAfee Organ Concert Oct. 27
• Oct 14: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Fischer to give Carls-Schwerdfeger History Lecture Oct. 29
• Oct 14: ‘Secret Holocaust Diaries’ authors George, Tomlin to speak at Oct. 22 Union Auxiliary luncheon
• Oct 14: Condoleezza Rice to speak at Oct. 20 Scholarship Banquet
• Oct 13: Patterson, Finn explore past, future of Baptists
• Oct 13: Van Neste, Tidwell examine pastoral ministry, revivals
• Oct 13: Next generation crucial to future of SBC, Mohler says
• Oct 12: Poe and DeVine: Denominations must address changes in culture
• Oct 12: Litfin, Lindsay address trends of evangelicalism, denominations
• Oct 12: Smith urges a return to Christ-centered preaching
• Oct 12: Akin: SBC’s future hinges on faithfulness to Scripture
• Oct 9: From handwringing to hopefulness: Dockery calls on Christians to unite around essentials of the gospel
• Oct 8: Beeson’s George emphasizes value of creeds in understanding Christianity
• Oct 7: Stetzer: Denominations have future as ‘servants’ of churches on God’s mission
• Oct 7: Union welcomes more than 500 for annual Family Weekend
• Oct 6: Panel discussion added to Thursday’s conference schedule
• Oct 5: Tanner, Emerson to discuss bipartisanship at Union’s Jones Lecture
• Oct 5: Future of denominationalism conference begins this week

September

• Sep 30: BBC’s Kay encourages students to use passports
• Sep 29: Seminar on mental illness set for Oct. 5
• Sep 29: Bray to lecture as Scholar-in-Residence
• Sep 23: Weatherly exhibit to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• Sep 23: BBC’s Kay to speak Sept. 30 at Union Forum luncheon
• Sep 22: Late-night missions event simulates persecuted church
• Sep 22: Gaines, Card in chapel at Union this week
• Sep 21: Benson sculpture on display in Indianapolis
• Sep 17: Phi Alpha Theta wins seventh straight Best Chapter Award
• Sep 15: Churches invited to Union for special Oct. 7 service
• Sep 11: Pflasterer, Booth to be featured speakers during GO Week
• Sep 9: Guthrie seeking $24,000 for freshwater wells through Dollar for a Drink
• Sep 8: Loritts, Dooley to speak in Union chapel this week
• Sep 2: Union enrollment tops 4,000 for first time
• Sep 1: Kay, Prothero headline 2009-10 Union Forum series

August

• Aug 31: Guthrie, Lawless to speak in Union chapel this week
• Aug 28: Union installs three leaders at fall convocation service
• Aug 28: Hornbeak exhibit on display through Sept. 23
• Aug 25: Pharmacy students to participate in white coat ceremony Aug. 26
• Aug 24: Fall semester begins with largest freshman class, record enrollment
• Aug 20: Union climbs in U.S.News & World Report college rankings
• Aug 17: Union University Hendersonville expands offerings for fall 2009
• Aug 17: Union’s Lambda Chi Alpha chapter wins national award
• Aug 13: Morris, Stallings spend summer biking cross-country on Ride:Well Tour
• Aug 11: Union University, Dockery now on Twitter
• Aug 7: Aldridge named TranSouth SID of the year
• Aug 4: 295 receive degrees at Union’s summer commencement

July

• Jul 29: Union named among Best Southeastern Colleges by Princeton Review
• Jul 28: TBC president Sinquefield to speak at Union’s Aug. 1 graduation
• Jul 24: Union University Hendersonville recognizes first graduating class
• Jul 23: Union to sponsor ‘First Responders Appreciation Night’ at July 25 Jaxx game
• Jul 21: Madden, former TBC executive director, dies at 90
• Jul 17: Union’s Senior Adult Extravaganza to feature Janet Paschal
• Jul 15: Union holds first Children’s Summer Music Camp
• Jul 13: Online registration now open for fall conference on Southern Baptists and future of denominationalism
• Jul 7: Dockery, other theologians discuss Baptist identity on podcast

June

• Jun 30: ACPE grants Union's pharmacy program candidate status
• Jun 26: New Dockery book ‘Southern Baptist Identity’ now available
• Jun 24: Union presents Dodd Award to Mohler during SBC annual meeting
• Jun 19: Join Union University in Louisville for SBC annual meeting
• Jun 11: Record-high 515 freshmen register for fall semester
• Jun 5: Union alum Ezell to be nominated for Pastors’ Conference presidency
• Jun 5: Lady Bulldogs raise $12,000 for hunger relief
• Jun 4: Union competes in national RecycleMania program
• Jun 1: Poe wins Edgar Award for new biography of Edgar Allan Poe

May

• May 23: Union graduates largest class in history during 184th spring commencement
• May 23: A word from President Dockery about tonight's graduation
• May 21: Union launches urban education residency program in Memphis