Written by Tiane Davis // Photo provided by Abi Schliffka During Harding’s spring break, a group of students did not get the privilege of a week off from classes. The…
Written by Sara Hook and Sophie Thibodeaux // Graphic by Cooper Turman People across the world come together every year on March 17 to celebrate the life of St. Patrick…
Written by Sophie Thibodeaux and Gabriel Huff // Photo by Balazs Balassa The HU16 news team has begun a new segment hosted by Dr. Jack Shock, distinguished professor of communication,…
Written by Stacy Roibal // Photo by Balazs Balassa Dr. Jason Jewell is the department chair of humanities and the director of the Center for Great Books and Human Flourishing…
Written by Bailey Ridenour // Photo by Macy Cox Harding University hosted the 242 Strings Concert chamber ensemble in the Reynolds Recital Hall Tuesday, Feb. 21. 242 Strings is a…
Written by Caleb Chunn // Photo by Balazs Balassa A new skate club has made its way onto the campus scene, started by a few students who not only want…
Written by Bailey Ridenour and Emma Jones // Photo provided by Tate Allen Harding’s new chess club sent students to a chess tournament this past weekend in Little Rock. The…
Written by Stacy Roibal // Graphic by Wagner Valdez HU Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) has introduced various new opportunities for students to get involved this semester. They are offering…
Written by Mattie Powers // Pulled from 1997-1998 Petit Jean yearbook A former women’s social club, Tri Sigma Delta, is making its comeback to Harding this semester with new members,…
Written by Mattie Powers A group of Harding students took a trip to Washington D.C. for the annual National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 2. The breakfast happens every year on…
Written by Mattie Powers // Photo by Macy Cox A new pet store called Neighborhood Pet Shoppe has come to Searcy, offering various goods and services for animals. The store sells…
Written by Emma Weber // Photo by Macy Cox Many roads around campus and the greater Searcy area have been undergoing improvements. Director of the Physical Resource Department Danny DeRamus…
Written by Sophie Rossitto // Photo provided by Mat Faulkner Harding alumnus Mat Faulkner stepped into a new role as Searcy mayor last month, as he helped initiate plans to…
Written by Morgan Wrigley // Graphic by Cooper Turman Harding has introduced a new Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program in January at the Rogers, Arkansas, campus that offers…
Written by Stacy Roibal // Graphic by Cooper Turman Every spring, professors from various departments receive the Achievement in Teaching award. In 2022 the recipients were Dr. Lance Hawley (Bible),…
Written by Nic Fraraccio // Photo provided by Justin Bland Harding exercise and sports science professor Justin Bland welcomed his first missionary family at the beginning of the spring semester…
Written by Macy Cox // Photo by Macy Cox Harding Dining hosted its first Teaching Kitchen event this semester with chef Andrew Post on Jan. 25, teaching students how to…
Written by Sophie Thibodeaux // Photo by Macy Cox As students at Harding grow and evolve in their spiritual and professional journey, many find themselves taking up unexpected projects they…
Written by Morgan Wrigley // Photo provided by Zach Bishop The Harding University Chorus traveled to Olive Branch, Mississippi, last weekend to conduct a performance, marking the first time the…
Written by Caleb Chunn The College of Education is offering two sections in January and April of a new one-credit hour course titled: “Engaging Communities Through Mission,” taught by the…
Written by Sophie Rossitto // Graphic by Cooper Turman Police last week were investigating two of three nighttime shootings that took place Jan. 3 in Searcy, including one at an…
Written by Bailey Ridenour // Photo by Macy Cox The Searcy Regional Chamber of Commerce announced during the Dec. 13 Searcy City Council meeting tentative plans for new developments within…
Written by Sophie Thibodeaux and Emma Jones // Graphic by Wagner Valdez Students at Harding had Monday, Jan. 16, off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The break provided a…
Written by Morgan Wrigley // Photo by Gabriel Huff The Honors College embarked on a study abroad trip for the first time in about a decade to Greece with 43…
Written by Camille White // Photo by Balazs Balassa Harding introduced several new courses to campus this semester, aiming to help students expand their skills and knowledge. The Department of…
Photo by Balazs Balassa Students across campus explore their hobbies and prepare for their futures by running small businesses. The Christmas Market gathered these student-run businesses in the Hammond Student…
Graphic by Cooper Turman Early voting is in motion for Searcy mayor as incumbent Kyle Osborne goes head-to-head with businessman Mat Faulkner in the city’s Dec. 6 runoff election after…
Photo by Tommy Valente With four First Team All-Great American Conference (GAC) honors, junior Nieves Megias is one of the Harding women’s cross-country team’s star players. While she placed ninth,…
Photo by Jeff Montgomery The American Studies Institute (ASI) held its annual Veteran’s Day breakfast on Nov. 11 in Cone Chapel to honor veterans in the Harding community. Dr. John…
Photo by Macy Cox A local organization hosted an annual Thanksgiving event in downtown Searcy to bring members of the community together on Sunday, featuring new activities and collaborations with…
Written by Mitch Friesenborg // Photo by Madison Meyer Men’s social club Galaxy, which just celebrated its 75th anniversary on Homecoming weekend, participated in Club Week for the first time…
Written by Mitch Friesenborg // Photo by Balazs Balassa Dozens of Harding students with plastic gloves and hairnets gathered around funnels in the rotunda of the McInteer Bible and World…
Photo by Madison Meyer Several churches hosted fall festivals last weekend to connect with the community, gathering people from all over Searcy in fall-themed fellowship. Downtown Church of Christ held…
Photo by Julianne Baker Searcy Beats and Eats and Harding’s Arts and Life Series collaborated to host Kilts and Coffee last Friday, Oct. 21, with community vendors and Celtic-themed entertainment.…
Social clubs have been a staple of University life for many years. One of the oldest, women’s social club Regina, will be celebrating its 75th anniversary this weekend. Regina alumna…
Written by The Bison Staff / Photo by Macy Cox Junior Tucker Lovell and Dr. Andrea Morris, assistant to the provost for strategic initiatives, are raising awareness for a need…
Written by Eli Roberts // Photo by Madison Meyer El Puente is a faith-oriented, nonprofit organization assisting and providing help to Spanish speakers through various services to improve the quality…
Written by Erin Marshall and Emma Jones In the last few weeks, Searcy has seen some changes to several coffee shops around town. On Sept. 30, Nova Joe’s announced via…
Written by Carter Thweatt If you’ve been on Harding’s campus or the streets of Searcy on any Sunday night recently, there’s a good chance you’ve seen the “Bike Gang” riding…
Written by Carter Thweatt Many students tend to sleep in or tailgate at Bison Park on Saturdays, but recently, two Harding students went for something a little different. On Sept.…
Written by Emma Weber Three years ago during the end of summer, veteran Bill Morton, known on the road as “Rhino,” and some friends came into the local Searcy diner…
Q: Can you tell me a little bit about yourself, some basic background? A: I grew up in West Virginia, on a mountaintop basically. I was more of an outdoor…
Written by Carter Thweatt Downtown Searcy will be the place to be as the annual Get Down Downtown festival returns this weekend. The festival has occurred 13 times in the…
The Department of Music concluded a songwriting contest on Sept. 17, with a music tracking workshop led by bluegrass musician Tim Crouch. The winners of the contest were senior integrated…
Written by Carter Thweatt The Harding University Film Club enjoys getting together to watch a movie every Monday night. Recently, they had an event that was a little out…
Sophomore Lynley Eller has returned to campus and is taking the semester in stride after a traumatic brain injury from a car crash in November 2021. Eller said her return…
Written by Stacy Roibal Multiple new business ventures have been in the works over the summer in Searcy. From coffee to retail, the community is taking strides in the right…
Students, faculty and staff across campus came together to say thank you to Dr. David Burks Wednesday, April 27, for his past 18 months of service as interim University president.
Associate professor of English Dr. Amy Qualls has been chosen to serve a two year appointment as faculty fellow in the Honors College. Qualls has been a part of Harding’s faculty for 11 years, with several of those spent also teaching Honors Symposium over the summer.
The Harding student body elected junior interdisciplinary studies major Megan Sledge and junior management major Laney Bell as next year’s Student Association (SA) president and vice president, as announced on April 8, along with sophomore medical humanities major Britney Njeri as secretary and junior accounting major Grant Moore as treasurer.
One Harding music professor has a way of transforming musical moments through small gestures.
The Art and Design Department returned to Chicago from March 23-27 for the first time in two years. Until 2020, the department has taken the trip every spring semester since 2007.
Harding Academy’s robotics team, Breakaway 3937, hosted the FIRST Robotics Arkansas regional tournament in the Rhodes-Reaves Field House last weekend. High school robotics teams from across the U.S. and Mexico competed in hopes to advance to the World Championships in Houston, Texas.
An academic honor society has prepared to host an interactive event for children outside the local history house Saturday to help kids explore different time periods in history.
While many Harding students spent their spring breaks serving in places like California, Arizona, Nicaragua and Mexico, 15 students stayed on Harding’s campus.
Any given morning, one may wake to Muslim prayer calls, listen to Chinese at the local market or encounter a Hindu celebration before afternoon in Malaysia’s eclectic mix of ethnicities and cultures.
With the help of Rock House Ministries, College Church will host their annual service event, Bisons for Christ.
Two U.S. reserve Marines were attending classes at Harding last fall when they got the news that military officials were sending them to another state.
A Harding alumna, who is now a published author, spoke about her latest book on Tuesday, Feb. 22, in the Reynolds Recital Hall.
Harding is hosting the Arkansas chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing’s (NATS) spring conference and competition on Saturday. As part of that conference and in collaboration with the Arts and Life program at Harding, opera singer Meroë Khalia Adeeb will be performing as the featured singer tonight.
In January, associate professor of communication Jim Miller was promoted to assistant dean of the Honors College. Starting in August, associate professor of engineering James Huff will begin a new position as senior faculty fellow for the Honors College.
A Harding English class held a public poetry reading Tuesday, Feb. 15, at Kibo Midnight Oil Coffee House to read short stories and poems by Black authors in honor of Black History Month.
Everyone should have a mentor like Mr. C. As it turns out, everyone did.
A representative of the Student Association (SA) announced in chapel two weeks ago they would be holding a contest for lament poems until Feb. 11. Junior SA representative Malachi Brown…
Photo by Madison Meyer Harding alumna Abby Smith remembered sitting in the audience of shows at the Arkansas Repertory Theater in Little Rock when she was in college. “And I’ve…
Photo by M. Liann Gallagher A team of six Harding students traveled to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, on Jan. 31 to participate in the 2022 Academic Competition Federation (ACF)…
Assistant professor of English Paulette Bane published her second book of poetry Jan. 3. The book, “Wading through Lethe,” was published under the name Paulette Guerin and explores the theme of memory, drawing inspiration from mythology and Bane’s childhood.
A group of people at Harding began organizing the first Searcy spring break mission trip this fall, with the goal of helping students connect with local residents and organizations.
Start Her Running took a group of approximately 50 students to run in the St. Jude half marathon and 10K in Memphis, Tennessee, on Dec. 4.
Written by Tiane Davis | Photo by Caroline Palmer Several senior honors students recently presented their thesis projects that have been in the works for at least two semesters with…
Written by Madison Meyer | Photo by Madison Meyer Sophomore Megan Drause built and donated a puppet that can sign American Sign Language (ASL) to the Arkansas School for the…
Written by Madison Meyer | Photo by Madison Meyer As of fall 2021, 21 student cadets were enrolled in the Harding University Army ROTC program. Exactly four of those cadets…
Photo by Gabriel Huff Students currently taking the Living World Religions class visited Dallas last weekend to attend eight different religious worship services over a span of three days. Dean…
Written by Ben Lane | Photo by Jill Jarvis Harding’s midnight curfew (1:00 a.m. on the weekends) doesn’t allow on-campus students to experience late night parties in rooms outside of…
Searcy is a small college town where seemingly not much happens, but in 1974 one of the biggest murder cases in White county history took place right here in Searcy. Years after the murder happened, Mike Allen and Deana Nall decided to dive back into the case and write a book centered around the story.
During his time off from working with the grounds crew at Harding, Jaxsen Burton has often spent his weekends this fall combining sports and storytelling through an organized wrestling group in Searcy.
Former Harding University student-athlete and coach Molly Howard-Gerwig died on Oct. 16, following a short battle with colon cancer. Howard-Gerwig was 27.
Black students attending Harding University in 1968 formed the social club Groove Phi. Fifty-three years later, the Black Student Association (BSA) will pay homage to the original members of Groove Phi with a ‘60s themed celebration today, Oct. 29.
The first “Empowered” meeting was held Thursday, Oct. 7, at Midnight Oil. Empowered is a monthly gathering organized by the Spiritual Life committee of the Student Association.
Downtown Singing is a completely student organized worship that is led by two individuals, junior Levi Huddleston and senior Makyla Oviedo-Rodriguez.
Freshman Luke Walling led the Harding cross-country team as the top runner through the first three meets of the season. Walling placed first in his first two collegiate races and was the first finisher of the Harding men’s cross-country team in the third.
Written by Eric Johnson The American Studies Institute (ASI) is entering this school year with a new executive director, Dr. John Richard Duke. Duke officially became the new director on…
Harding welcomes a new academic club to its shores this semester with WISE: Women in Science and Engineering. Initiated by junior biochemistry and molecular biology major Libby Hinton, WISE seeks to connect women of STEM and help them build community together.
Harding Sports Network released the first episode of a new podcast on Monday, Aug. 30, aimed at giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at Harding athletics.
In 2019, the Heart2Heart foundation, an outreach program, was created by Harding alumnae Alina Westbrook and Claudia Helbig to use self creativity to serve others.
While most students on campus live in dorms or apartments, there are a few who have explored alternative living arrangements. Junior Ciara Roberts spends her free time renovating a bus…
A group of three Harding students got a second chance to intern this summer at the nonprofit ministry organization Dry Bones in Denver. Dry Bones is an organization that works…
Written by Katelyn Allen and Rachel Bible Women’s social club Delta Nu is releasing a special edition newspaper called “The Willow: A Delta Nuspaper” to be released today. Delta Nu’s…
Harding’s alumni and parent relations office created a networking platform, Harding Network, in spring 2020 to help connect people within the Harding community from all over the world. Undergraduate students,…
Written by Madison Meeks. The Harding University choral groups had not performed live in over a year, until last Friday, March 26. The live concert consisted…
While many people in early 2020 only heard about the coronavirus outbreak in China through the news, a few Harding alumni were living in Wuhan, China, at that time and…
Ethan Brown was the newly-hired assistant director for the Harding University in Florence (HUF) program when COVID-19 broke out, which affected Italy before the United States and led to the…
Written by Ben Lane The Pokémon franchise is celebrating its 25th anniversary throughout 2021, and the game is still popular among Harding students. Originated in 1996 in Japan, Pokémon came…
Junior Josh Shockley goes from sitting in the classroom to teaching in one as a Spanish teacher for high school sophomores and juniors at Crosspointe, a preparatory school in Searcy,…
The entire immediate Sloan family is on campus this year, including Assistant Professor of Business Ellis Sloan, Assistant Professor of Communication Lori Sloan, freshman Ben Sloan and senior Camille Sloan. …
Written by Madison Meeks. A group of Harding students raised over $2,600 for Kibo Group by hosting an impromptu fundraising event, “Shave-Off,” last Tuesday, Feb. 23. Individual participants raised money…
Several Harding students use music as an outlet for expression, as well as a way to be pushed out of their comfort zones. Freshman Oliver Graves, musically known as “Glover…
Written by Madison Meeks. Aside from his role as a professor of communication, Dr. Dutch Hoggatt wears many different hats: KVHU radio station manager, Lady Bison basketball game commentator, cattle…
What began as a joke in the Cathcart Hall lobby resulted in blind dates for 40 freshmen on Valentine’s Day. Freshmen Evie Boyd and Gracie Steelman were joking around with…
Written by Madison Meeks. A group of students recently founded Sustainable Harding University (SHU), a new organization on campus aiming to inform students to spark change and create a sustainable…
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