http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specificationFaculty News www.swcu.eduMarilyn Hudsonhttp://www.swcu.eduSun, 19 May 2013 13:08:31 GMTFaculty News Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:49:24 GMTLocal Faulty Host Academic Conferencehttp://www.swcu.edu/local-faulty-host-academic-conferenceTue, 27 Mar 2012 05:00:00 GMTMarilyn HudsonMarilyn HudsonThrough a collaborative effort of campus departments, individuals, and community members the Noel Brooks Memorial Conference will take place on Friday, March 30, 2012. 

A dream of such an event came together last spring as various entities from the Graduate School, the Library, the Bible and Theology Department, the Adult Studies Program, and the Department of Behavioral Sciences began to dream.

Designed to begin to move the SCU faculty, students, and alums into a leadership roles in merging faith with learning, the conference will feature papers, panels, poster displays, and authors.

]]>http://www.swcu.edu/local-faulty-host-academic-conferenceLibrary Director Authors bookhttp://www.swcu.edu/library-director-authors-bookFri, 16 Mar 2012 05:00:00 GMTMarilyn HudsonMarilyn HudsonMarilyn A. Hudson announces the publication of a biographical history of Noel Brooks, published in December by Whorl Books-Create Space titled, Noel Brooks: A Life Shining and Burning, 1914-2006. 

Available from Amazon.com, the work looks at the life, work, and writings of the Reverend Noel Brooks as he worked with Wesleyn Methodist, Elim Pentecostal Fellowship, Bible Pattern Fellowship, and finally the Pentecostal Holiness Church Conference of Great Britain.

A portion of sales from this title will go to the upkeep of the Noel Brooks Collection in the Southwestern Christian University Library.

Marilyn A. Hudson is the Director of Library Services at Southwestern Christian University in Bethany, Oklahoma. Prior to this, she served as public services librarian for the Metropolitan Library System and as a library media specialist for Norman Public Schools. Listed in the 1997 Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities, she was the 2002 recipient of the OLA Outstanding New Librarian Award, and member of the Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society, Golden Key, and Phi Kappa Phi. Her general research interests are in history, especially social, religious, and church history; women’s studies; mythology, folklore and storytelling. Hudson was lead writer and editor of the book, One Night Club and A Mule Barn: The First 60 Years of Southwestern Christian University (Tate, 2006) and has previously authored, Those Pesky Verses of Paul: Examining Women in the New Testament, Elephant Hips are Expensive, and others. She received a B.A. in History and an M.L.I.S. from the University of Oklahoma.

]]>http://www.swcu.edu/library-director-authors-bookDR. TRAMEL INVITED SPEAKERhttp://www.swcu.edu/dr-tramel-invited-speakerWed, 14 Mar 2012 05:00:00 GMTMarilyn HudsonMarilyn HudsonDr. Terry Tramel will be the featured speaker at the IPHC Cornerstone Conference Minister's Retreat March 26-28, 2012. The event will take place at the Billy Graham Training Center at the Cove in Asheville, North Carolina. The theme of the retreat is "A Journey Through Pilgrim's Progress."

]]>http://www.swcu.edu/dr-tramel-invited-speakerProfessor gains recognitionhttp://www.swcu.edu/professor-gains-recognitionTue, 28 Feb 2012 06:00:00 GMTMarilyn HudsonMarilyn HudsonFEBRUARY 9, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Local Student Inducted into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
BATON ROUGE, LA— The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is pleased to announce that Shelley Groves, of OKC, OK, was recently initiated into the Phi Kappa Phi Chapter at The University of Oklahoma, where she is pursuing a PhD in Instructional Leadership in Academic Curriculum with a focus in English. Groves is among approximately 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year.

Founded in 1897 at the University of Maine, Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest, largest and most selective all-discipline honor society. The Society has chapters on nearly 300 campuses in the United States, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.

Membership in Phi Kappa Phi is by invitation and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of juniors, having at least seventy-two semester hours, are eligible for membership. Graduate students in the top 10 percent of the number of candidates for graduate degrees may also qualify, as do faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction.

More About Phi Kappa Phi
Founded in 1897, Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline honor society. Phi Kappa Phi inducts annually approximately 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni. The Society has chapters on more than 300 select colleges and universities in the United States and the Philippines. Membership is by invitation only to the top 10 percent of seniors and graduate students and 7.5 percent of juniors. Faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction also qualify.

Since its founding, more than 1 million members have been initiated. Some of the organization’s more notable members include former President Jimmy Carter, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, NASA Astronaut Wendy Lawrence, writers John Grisham and David Baldacci, opera singer Renee Fleming, journalist and broadcaster Deborah Norville, Netscape founder James Barksdale, and YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley.

The Society has awarded approximately $14 million since the inception of its awards program in 1932. Today, more than $700,000 is awarded annually to qualifying members and non-members through graduate fellowships, undergraduate study abroad scholarships, member and chapter awards and grants for local and national literacy initiatives. The Society’s mission is “To recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others.”

For more information on Phi Kappa Phi, please call 1-800-804-9880 or visit www.PhiKappaPhi.org.

]]>http://www.swcu.edu/professor-gains-recognitionFaculty Publishes in State Periodicalhttp://www.swcu.edu/faculty-publishes-in-state-periodicalMon, 31 Oct 2011 05:00:00 GMTMarilyn HudsonMarilyn HudsonLibrary Director and member of the faculty, Marilyn A. Hudson, was recently published in The Tattler.  The Territory Tellers is the statewide arts organization for the collecting, preserving, and sharing of stories from the oral tradition in Oklahoma and The Tattler is their publication. Storytelling has been a part of Mrs. Hudson's professional training and interest for over a decade in both public schools and public libraries. In the new issue she has an article included, "Getting Steamed: Introducing Storytellers to the Steampunk Sub-Culture." 
 
 
http://www.territorytellers.org/pmwiki/uploads/TerritoryTattler/TTFall11.pdf 
 
 

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]]>http://www.swcu.edu/faculty-publishes-in-state-periodicalGroves and Hinkle Lead Students on Learning Trip Overseashttp://www.swcu.edu/groves-and-hinkle-lead-students-on-learning-trip-overseasWed, 26 Oct 2011 05:00:00 GMTMarilyn HudsonMarilyn Hudson Students from SCU along with Mrs. Groves, English Dept. Head and Mrs. Hinkle, Dean of the Professional Studies School, journeyed to Italy and Greece as part of a special overseas learning program.  Students take classes designed to assist in making the trip a learning experience, do assignments related to the journey and its sights and have the experience of traveling in other cultures and seeing history up close and personal.

Info coming...

]]>http://www.swcu.edu/groves-and-hinkle-lead-students-on-learning-trip-overseasCampbell Named to Editorial Boardhttp://www.swcu.edu/campbell-named-to-editorial-boardWed, 26 Oct 2011 05:00:00 GMTMarilyn HudsonMarilyn HudsonDr. Campbell is now on the Editorial Board for the national journal, Literacy Research and Instruction. "I reviewed an article submitted for this peer reviewed publication," he said. "The article is entitled, Literacy Stories: Literacy Practices of Adult Sudanese Fathers and Their Adolescents' In-and Out-of-School Literacy Development."

]]>http://www.swcu.edu/campbell-named-to-editorial-boardCampbell Attends Conferencehttp://www.swcu.edu/campbell-attends-conferenceWed, 26 Oct 2011 05:00:00 GMTMarilyn HudsonMarilyn HudsonOne of SCU's newest faculty additions is Dr. Tim Campbell, Education Department Head, and he hit the ground running this fall.  On September 17, 2011, he attended the Oklahoma A+ Schools Annual State Conference. The conference was held at the Reed Conference Center in Midwest City. The theme of the conference was OK A+ Faces. The keynote speaker was Sam Chaltain, writer, educator and consultant. Mr. Chaltain's topic was: Faces of Learning: The Power and Impact of Engaging Curious Minds. Mr. Chaltain's new book was also available. The book is entitled, Faces of Learning: 50 Powerful Stories of Defining Moments in Education. 
 
 
 

]]>http://www.swcu.edu/campbell-attends-conferenceYoung To Lead Conference School of Ministry Sessionhttp://www.swcu.edu/young-to-lead-school-of-ministry-sessionThu, 13 Oct 2011 05:00:00 GMTSCU ACADEMICSSCU ACADEMICSRev. Ken L. Young is Professor of Bible and Theology at Southwestern Christian University in Bethany, Oklahoma. He served also for fourteen years as the Director and Dean of Adult Studies.

Ken represents a fourth generation Pentecostal Holiness heritage. His father, maternal grandfather and great grandfather were ministers in the Pentecostal Holiness movement. He was born in Greenwood, South Carolina where he lived for eighteen years enjoying his days growing up on a small farm. Ken accepted Christ at the age of six, but in response to a family tragedy he soon deviated from the faith for nine years. Ken returned to the faith at the age of sixteen and accepted the call of God into fulltime ministry.

Ken holds ministerial credentials through the Upper South Carolina Conference of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church. After serving as Director of Christian Education for two years in his home church, Ken worked under two pastors as a Youth Pastor for two years and then as an Associate Pastor for two years. Ken pastored two churches in South Carolina for a total of eight years while serving on the Conference World Missions Board and the Conference Evangelism Board. Since moving to Oklahoma Ken participated as a Teaching Elder for eight years at Christian Heritage Church and Covenant Community Church in Yukon. He attends and serves at Divine Life Church in Oklahoma City.

Ken's faithfulness to his heritage never interfered with his yearning for unity within and among the body of Christ. An advocate of ecumenicalism, Ken interned for one year in a Southern Baptist Church, ministered for two years in a United Methodist congregation, and served for three months as interim pastor at a Presbyterian Church. In addition, he is a fervent opponent of prejudices within society in general and among the people of God in particular. Ken has served in parachurch and civic organizations throughout his ministerial career.

Ken describes his destiny as a "Foundation Builder." His ministry goal is to lay new foundations and reinforce existing ones. His purpose is focused, but his vision is global. God has given a mandate to Ken to teach the nations of the world. He has taught in Kenya, East Africa and Israel. Future ministry locations include India, Liberia, Ghana, Cameroon, and Tanzania.

Because he esteems the development of the mind as essential to the development of the soul, Ken attended and graduated from Furman University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion. He continued his educational pursuits at Columbia Theological Seminary where he earned a Master of Arts degree with a major in New Testament Greek and cognate studies in Systematic Theology. Columbia awarded Ken a graduate fellowship for doctoral studies; with this award he enrolled in Golden West Christian University where he is pursuing a Doctor of Theology degree in Biblical Studies specializing in the Gospel of John.

Ken resides in Yukon, Oklahoma with his wife, Jacqualine, and their two children, Andrew and Kara.

Heartland Conference School of Ministry, Oct. 14-15, 2011. 

 

]]>http://www.swcu.edu/young-to-lead-school-of-ministry-sessionProvost Publishes in Work Targeting Student Spiritual Developmenthttp://www.swcu.edu/provost-publishesMon, 03 Oct 2011 05:00:00 GMTEditorEditorng SpirtDr. Reggies Wenyika recently contributed to a publication now available dealing with the spiritual life of students in higher education, A Guidebook of Promising Practices:Facilitating Students' Spiritual Development was  compiled by Jennifer A. Linhom, Melissa L. Milora, and others.

]]>http://www.swcu.edu/provost-publishesFaculty Publish in Professional Workshttp://www.swcu.edu/faculty-publishMon, 03 Oct 2011 05:00:00 GMTEditorEditorThis summer and fall saw two members of the SCU adjunct faculty publish in professional journals.  This summer Dr. Marvin J. Hudson, adjunct Graduate School faculty, published a book review in the Society of Biblical Literature Review of Books (online).   This fall, Chris Green, adjunctant Graduate School faculty, published an article in the Journal of Pentecostal Theology (20).  The article was "The Body of Christ, the Spirit of Communion: Re-visioning Pentecostal Ecclesiology in Conversation with Robert Jenson"

]]>http://www.swcu.edu/faculty-publishFaculty Training Gains Specialist Certificatehttp://www.swcu.edu/faculty-trainingMon, 03 Oct 2011 05:00:00 GMTMarilyn HudsonMarilyn HudsonThis summer adjunct professor in the Graduate School, Dr. Marvin J. Hudson became a certified "Intentional Interium Ministry Specialist."  As such, he works with churches and advises them about plans and training to advance their purpose and work together.

]]>http://www.swcu.edu/faculty-trainingFaculty Unite to Challenge Studentshttp://www.swcu.edu/faculty-unite-to-challenge-studentsMon, 03 Oct 2011 05:00:00 GMTMarilyn HudsonMarilyn HudsonProfessors Chet Horn and Harve Griffin pooled energies to work with students to become part of an academic bowl competition hosted by a local OKC television station.  The effort emphasises the role of learning and the mind in university life.

]]>http://www.swcu.edu/faculty-unite-to-challenge-studentsLibrary Director Celebrity Readerhttp://www.swcu.edu/library-director-celebrity-readerMon, 03 Oct 2011 05:00:00 GMTMarilyn HudsonMarilyn HudsonSCU Library Director Marilyn A. Hudson was invited to be a celebrity reader at the internationally recognized Neustadt Literature Award event on the campus of the University of Oklahoma campus on Sept. 28, 2011.  Joing Hudson as readers were a Grammy award winning country musician and an award winning children's author. The readers read selections of award winning children's literature to approimately 250 4th and 5th graders from Norman Public Schools.

]]>http://www.swcu.edu/library-director-celebrity-readerTramel Speaks at Camp Meetinghttp://www.swcu.edu/tramel-speaks-at-camp-meetingMon, 03 Oct 2011 05:00:00 GMTMarilyn HudsonMarilyn HudsonDr. Terry Tramel, Dean of the Adult and Graduate Studies programs at SCU, was one of the speakers at the North Carolina Camp Meeting, August 7-13, 2011.

]]>http://www.swcu.edu/tramel-speaks-at-camp-meetingFaculty Minister in Local Churcheshttp://www.swcu.edu/faculty-minister-in-local-churchesMon, 03 Oct 2011 05:00:00 GMTMarilyn HudsonMarilyn HudsonProfessor Ken Young has been ministering in several Oklahoma City churches in recent months.  He has been specially sought out as a speaker and teacher.

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