Themed “These Are a Few of My Favorite Things,” Wittenberg’s first of two Alumni Colleges this summer will feature 11 professors who received the Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Teaching, the university’s top faculty prize.

Hundreds of alumni enjoyed the 2010 Wittenberg Choir spring tour. It was the final one for director Don Busarow, professor of music, after 28 years.

Every fall, approximately 50 million students walk through the doors of 99,000 public elementary and secondary schools around the country. Of those schools, 4,100 are public charter schools. With the new administration putting resources into replicating successful charter schools, there is renewed examination of how they might be an engine for reform – especially for urban schools, which many believe to be in crisis.

More than 100 alumni caught up in Sarasota during the annual spring alumni event there on March 16.

The Columbus Holiday Party brought together more than 35 alumni on Dec. 8.

Jennifer Vanica ’76 has not forgotten the day her high school English teacher tapped her on the shoulder, gave her $1,200 in cash and told her to go to college.

For 18 years, The Rev. Dr. Michael D. Wuchter ’68 served as pastor to his alma mater. In 2000, while on a mission trip to Africa, Wuchter passed away, but his words live on through a compilation of his sermons…

Communication to and between alumni and the university will grow even more thanks to a new initiative led by the Office of University Advancement. As part of the effort, a new online community will be established, which will create greater…

Throughout his college career and leading up to it, Stefan Diehm ’08 has lived his alma mater’s motto of “Having light we pass it on to others.” He will now continue that tradition as the university’s new assistant alumni relations director. Diehm replaces Ashley Peterson ’07 who recently left to attend graduate school.

nationFor 33 days this past summer, Ashley Manson ’09 and Ben McCombs ’09 traveled 8,000 miles across the country’s highways and byways to engage with more than 1,000 alumni during the second annual Witt Nation, June 19-July 31. The 27-city tour allowed Manson and McCombs, and their occasional guest riders from Wittenberg’s faculty and staff, to bring Wittenberg to the hometowns of its alumni. “I’m continually amazed by how our alumni pass on their light in such meaningful ways,” said Alumni Relations Director Linda Prain Beals ’87. “From the Witt Nation crew, thank you!”