2010-2011 Year in Review
2010-2011 year in review
AUGUST 2010
The university is one of two Kansas universities to be ranked among the Best National Liberal Arts Colleges in 2011 edition of Best Colleges by U.S. News Media Group. • Baker receives approval from the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education in Omaha, Neb., to offer programs in Nebraska for the first time in the university’s 152-year history. • JoAnne Fluke, ’00, is featured on The Learning Channel’s one-hour documentary titled “Dancer with Tiny Legs.” • G.I. Jobs announces that Baker is among military friendly schools for 2011 for doing the most to embrace America’s veterans as students. • The Princeton Review names Baker ‘A Best in the Midwest’ university in “2011 Best Colleges: Region by Region.”
SEPTEMBER 2010
Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy, ’87, and the Packers organization partner for their third annual $100,000 donation to the athletic program. • University fall enrollment is reported at 3,868 students, an increase of 15 students from the previous year. • The exhibit “400 Years of the King James Bible” opens at the Quayle Bible Collection. • Elizabeth Ann Sanders, associate professor and director of continuing education, is named the recipient of the 2010 M. Claradine Johnson Award for her leadership roles in public schools, higher education and professional organizations. • The music and theatre department presents “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” • The School of Nursing celebrates its 20th anniversary with a reception and open house at Stormont-Vail HealthCare. • Men’s and women’s soccer coach Nate Houser, ’94, signs a one-year contract to play professionally with the Comets Major Indoor League Soccer Team.
OCTOBER 2010
Six former Wildcat standouts — Bob Courtney, ’57; Bill White, ’59; Fred Purvis, ’70; Brad Roepke, ’83; Terry Roepke, ’85; and Jessica Walters Ohlde, ’01 — are inducted into the Baker University Athletic Hall of Fame during a ceremony at the Doubletree Hotel in Overland Park, Kan. • Dolan Ellis, ’57, known as Arizona’s official state balladeer, returns to the Baldwin City to perform a concert at Rice Auditorium. • The School of Professional and Graduate Studies is host to a career expo and networking event at its Overland Park campus.
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