Messiah College News Archive

The Journal of Artists’ Books, the premier journal about artists’ books, published out of Columbia College, Chicago, lists only nine bachelor’s programs as “Places to Study the Book Arts.” Messiah College is listed with other such fabulous arts programs as: MICA: Maryland Institute of College of Art, Otis College of Art and Design, Purchase College of Art and Design – SUNY, Scripps College, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago!

 The Central Penn Business Journal released its annual list of the “Top 40 under 40” business leaders in the central Pennsylvania region. As is becoming a tradition, Messiah College business alumni were well represented on this distinguished list by: Jeremy M. Allen ’99 of Walz, Deihm, Geisenberger, Bucklen & Tennis, P.C.; Michael D. Hoffner ’97of McKonly & Asbury, LLP; Andrew L. Steckbeck ’94 of Simon Lever LLP; and Eric R. Wenger ’99 of Reinsel Kuntz Lesher LLP.

Each year, “U.S. News & World Report” releases its rankings of college and universities nationwide. The rankings are designed to be a starting point for students and their families in their college search.

This year Messiah ranked well on several lists, including fifth among “Best Regional Colleges in the North” and sixth among “Great Schools, Great Price.”

Also, for the first time, Messiah College ranked among the “Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs,” a list comprised of nearly 200 colleges and universities recommended by their peers  (i.e. other college presidents, academic deans and enrollment officers) for their outstanding engineering program. Messiah ranked 98^th on this list.

 Messiah College is one of the best colleges in the Northeast according to the nationally known education services company, The Princeton Review.  It is one of 220 institutions The Princeton Review recommends in its “Best in the Northeast” section of its website feature, “2012 Best Colleges: Region by Region,” that posted August 1 on PrincetonReview.com.

 Once again Messiah’s accounting students have been very successful in being selected for Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) scholarships. This spring the PICPA awarded 40 scholarships to Pennsylvania accounting students, and three Messiah College students were selected: Alanna Sweester, Brent Sensinig, and Isaac Won. Only Villanova students received more (four). One other school received three – Penn State University.

GRANTHAM, Pa. (May 23, 2011) — Messiah College has been named to the 2010 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, a distinction recognizing institutions of higher education for their support of volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement. Read the rest of this entry »

Kim Smith, secretary of Messiah College’s board of trustees and attorney/partner with Hartman Underhill & Brubaker LLP, is being recognized as a woman of influence by Central Penn Business Journal at a May 16 luncheon.

 Messiah College President Kim Phipps and alumna Debra Pierson `89 received this honor in 2010.

Over the past 5 years, Messiah Nutrition and Dietetics graduates who have been accepted to and completed accredited dietetic internships have achieved a 100% pass rate on the national registered dietician exam.  Congratulations to these alumni!

Nance McCown, professor of communication, received the Top Faculty Paper Award for her paper, “Intersections and Overlaps: Building Leader-Employee Relationships through Internal Public Relations, Leadership Style, and Workplace Spirituality.”

 The paper can be found on pages 171-194 of Public Relations Society of America ’s fall conference proceedings: http://www.prsa.org/Network/Communities/EducatorsAcademy/Network/Documents/2010%20PRSA%20EA%20Proceedings.pdf.

The World Affairs Council of Harrisburg, an organization dedicated to educating and engaging residents in the greater Harrisburg area about global issues recently recognized Messiah College and the Harrisburg Institute for their commitments to furthering the mission of the Council.

Harrisburg University, Keystone Human Services, Elizabethtown College, Harsco, and the International House were also recognized.