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Tech experience helps ’21 grad and his friends launch card game

When they were kids, Alex Shinn and his friends, John Jehl and Ethan Sternke, would dream up and create different types of games just for the fun of it. Now, after fleshing out one of their more recent ideas, Shinn, a 2021 marketing graduate from Ģ����Ƶ, and his friends are taking fun and games […]

1940s: From Threatened to Thriving

With Ģ����Ƶ in the midst of its 90th year of motivating students toward lives of significance and worth, take a look back with us as we relive the hallmark events of this storied university. Many thanks, in advance, to former Ģ����Ƶ President Donald Andorfer, whose book “Ģ����Ƶ: The First 75 Years,” was […]

Mutually Beneficial Relationships

When Ģ����Ƶ awards full-tuition scholarships to its Leader Scholars, it adds quality, high-character individuals to the Warrior Nation. For the better part of a decade, dozens of students have felt the great fortune, the elation and the honor that goes along with earning a full-tuition scholarship from Ģ����Ƶ. Rest assured, those good feelings […]

Regardless of their generation or graduation year, many of our alumni share that Ģ����Ƶ represents family. Due to our Midwestern roots, our intimate learning environments and our cohesive approach to practical application, this is a resounding theme whenever alumni reflect on their time here. For some, it is symbolic in its familial representation, for […]

Ģ����Ƶ celebrates MLK Day with community service

To commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of unity and service, Ģ����Ƶ’s Office of Diversity & Inclusion chooses to celebrate his birthday—every year—by providing faculty, staff and students opportunities to engage in service for the Fort Wayne community. We look at it as a “day on,” rather than a day off. On Monday, […]

It is difficult to acknowledge that in 2020, our country and our world are still experiencing systemic racism. That’s why it is more important than ever that we be honest with ourselves and acknowledge that we as a university community could be doing more, could be doing things faster, and could be doing things better. […]

Ģ����Ƶ, StraighterLine collaborate to make sure students are prepared for the academic environment

Ģ����Ƶ’s Office for Student Success and the online education company StraighterLine, Inc. have collaborated to create the Ģ����Ƶ Readiness Academy, a program that will help adult and online students within the university’s College of Professional Studies (CPS) be more academically prepared for the college environment. The program launched July 26, the first day […]

Industry innovator and WWII vet

Since Ģ����Ƶ’s founding in 1930, we have striven to prepare our students to be the leaders of tomorrow and motivate them toward lives of significance and worth. That is—and always will be—the Warrior Way. Learn about Howard “Mack” Turner, an Ģ����Ƶ alum, who benefitted from the Warrior Way and lived a life of […]

Ģ����Ƶ adds Mechanical Engineering Technology degrees for 2020-21 school year

Beginning fall semester of 2020, students will be able to pursue a bachelor’s or an associate degree in mechanical engineering technology at Ģ����Ƶ. Courses for both will be available at Ģ����Ƶ’s main campus in Fort Wayne, but the associate will also be obtainable online. “Our mechanical engineering technology program is going to appeal […]

Cold Beans Out of a Can

A lawnmower, a broom, a rag, a wrench, a backpack. This list of everyday items may seem like a simple collection of things lying around the house. But to Harvey Smith, these items illustrate an extraordinary journey of personal and professional achievement that starts one stride behind a lawn mower in an airfield and ends […]