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| December 21, 2007 | |
| PHC Team Sends Eighteen to Nationals | |
| PHC moot court team at Eastern Regional Tournament. The regional fall moot court season saw Patrick Henry College burnish its growing reputation, as eighteen student competitors will travel to the national moot court tournament in Des Moines, Iowa on January 18-19. ...more | |
| December 12, 2007 | |
| Debaters Enjoy Breakthrough Season | |
| While other colleges struggle to build national-caliber athletic programs, Patrick Henry College endeavors to field elite squads of communicators. ...more | |
| November 30, 2007 | |
| Professor Releases Billy Graham Biography | |
| Exchanges like this are not uncommon in classes taught by Professor Aikman, whose depth of knowledge on such topics as the Middle East, the global spread of Christianity, and American politics have led to countless cover stories, documentaries, and books. ...more | |
| November 30, 2007 | |
| Students Dive into Community Service | |
| On a dark and chilly Halloween night, seven Patrick Henry College students clustered behind a table set up on a neighborhood lawn in Leesburg, Virginia. ...more | |
| November 14, 2007 | |
| Companies Seek Out PHC Students at Career Fair | |
| On the afternoon of Friday, November 9 students entering Patrick Henry College's Town Hall found an unusual sight. ...more | |
| November 14, 2007 | |
| Students Excel at Model UN | |
| PHC DelegationsStudents from Patrick Henry College won two awards while representing Greece, Spain and the United Arab Emirates at the Model United Nations conference in Washington, D.C., November 2-4. ...more | |
| November 12, 2007 | |
| PHC’s EdenTroupe Producing a Comedy | |
| Penny Sycamore writes melodramas. ...more | |
| November 09, 2007 | |
| New PHC Scholarship Targets Budding Journalists | |
| Dr. Les Sillars, Director of Journalism and Head of the Department of Government Already well known for its high profile government and public policy tracks, legal debate teams, and nearness to Washington, D.C., Patrick Henry College is gaining recognition as an excellent training ground for future journalists. ...more | |
| November 07, 2007 | |
| Lady Sentinels Post Winning Soccer Season | |
| Patrick Henry College is normally known for the debate skills and White House internships of its students, not for their outstanding athletic achievements. ...more | |
| November 02, 2007 | |
| Student Life Center Named for Trustee Barbara Hodel | |
| CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu Barbara Hodel Student Life Center in progress The Patrick ...more | |
| October 29, 2007 | |
| Cowdog Author to Share Wisdom | |
| John Erickson, author of the well-known Hank the Cowdog series of children's books, is visiting Patrick Henry College on November 12 to deliver one of his traditional "Hank talks." Members of the community are welcome to attend this talk and the autograph session to follow. ...more | |
| October 23, 2007 | |
| New Student Film Group Enters Film Festival | |
| Bradley Roy and Scott York line up a shot on Daniel Hebda A film team from Patrick Henry College wrote, filmed, scored, and edited a three-minute short film for the Apple Insomnia Film Festival the second weekend of October. The film, titled Score and directed by PHC junior Scott York, was created in just 24 hours in accordance with Festival rules. "It was a pretty crazy experience," said York, "you're not just racing time, you're racing exhaustion." From 9 a.m. ...more | |
| October 17, 2007 | |
| Students Learn the Price of Liberty | |
| Sandoval and Ly at Israeli-Syrian border This summer, Patrick Henry College students experienced a number of fascinating opportunities. ...more | |
| October 12, 2007 | |
| PHC Celebrates Traditions Old and New with Homecoming/Family Weekend | |
| A young man in a black ninja outfit stalked up to Founder's Hall and nodded brusquely to the motley crew already assembled. ...more | |
| October 08, 2007 | |
| From Plato to Pushups | |
| "Why did I join the U.S. Marine Corps?" writes PHC junior Kyle Green in a letter to his new bosses in the USMC. ...more | |
| October 03, 2007 | |
| Libertas Society Lobbies for Abstinence | |
| Patrick Henry College students gave testimonies in favor of abstinence education on Capitol Hill on the 20th of September, lobbying against the current plan in Congress which would eliminate federal funding for abstinence education and stress birth control. ...more | |
| October 03, 2007 | |
| Fall Debate Season Kicks Off | |
| Freshmen make up about one-third of the team this semester, many of whom attended PHC's debate camps or debated in National Christian Forensics and Communication Association (NCFCA). ...more | |
| September 25, 2007 | |
| Government Prof Also a Leading Family Advocate | |
| "Most of my lingering leftist views were eradicated by viewing this 'workers' paradise,'" he says with a grin.Along with that rich experience in Eastern Europe, PHC's new Assistant Professor of Government brings his growing reputation as a leading advocate for fatherhood and the family to students at Patrick Henry College. ...more | |
| September 20, 2007 | |
| Charles T. Evans Delivers Faith & Reason Lecture | |
| By Sarah Pride CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 338-8727 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu Veith, Mitchell, and Evans share a lively panel ...more | |
| September 12, 2007 | |
| Campus Gears Up for Semester’s Faith & Reason Lecture | |
| Since the start of Fall classes, faculty and students have met each Tuesday in "Christian Study Groups" to discuss Evans and Robert Littlejohn's book. ...more | |
| September 05, 2007 | |
| New Biology Professor Making Inroads | |
| Dr. Neil Doran As Patrick Henry's new Assistant Professor of Biology, Dr. Neal Doran says he first decided to study biology as a freshman engineering major at the University of Florida."I was miserable (studying engineering)," he laughs, "and I'd been fascinated with the issues of creation and evolution ever since high school, when I debated them with my friends."One of those high school friends was an atheist, with whom Doran recalls riding in a car as his friend raced along the highway at breakneck speeds. ...more | |
| August 31, 2007 | |
| College Profiled in Esteemed ISI Guide | |
| Patrick Henry College was recently pleased to find itself included in the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's (ISI) 2008-9 Choosing the Right College guide. ...more | |
| August 20, 2007 | |
| Semester-long Discussion of Classical Christian Liberal Arts Begins | |
| In its emphasis on the classical Christian liberal arts, Patrick Henry College occupies a unique niche among institutions of higher learning. ...more | |
| August 15, 2007 | |
| Changes in Distance Learning Program | |
| Ask Dr. Robert Spinney what he has enjoyed most from his last four years teaching history for Patrick Henry College students, and his response is quick."The intense, personal interaction," he says, adding, "That's what makes it worthwhile. ...more | |
| August 10, 2007 | |
| New Book By Dr. Farris Challenges Myths of America's Founding | |
| Was the United States truly founded as a Christian nation? A new book by Michael Farris, Chancellor of Patrick Henry College, sheds new light on that notion. While the Church has taught that America was colonized by Christians for the purpose of religious freedom, secularists declare that early American Christians persecuted one other and the Indians until Enlightenment thinkers such as Locke pierced the darkness with their tracts on "freedom." Both views, asserts Dr. Farris in his new book, From Tyndale to Madison, are wrong. "The truth," writes Farris, "is that it was a handful of Christians who believed in the authority of the Bible rather than the authority of the Church who were the true authors of religious liberty." Farris traces the roots of America's founding documents all the way back to William Tyndale's struggle in England in the 1500s to bring the Bible to the common man, or, in Tyndale's words, "cause a boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scripture than [the clerics]." Exposed to the Gospel for the first time, many new believers questioned the bureaucracy and corruption of established churches and often found themselves the targets of persecution. Farris's research tracks this troubling pattern from England to the first settlers in America, where groups forged like-minded colonies around their own theological views and punished dissenters much like church authorities from the society they had left. ...more | |
| August 02, 2007 | |
| Renowned Apologist John Warwick Montgomery Joins PHC Faculty | |
| Dr. John Warwick MontgomeryOne of contemporary Christianity's leading apologetics experts will be joining the faculty of Patrick Henry College this fall. ...more | |
| July 31, 2007 | |
| Government and Journalism Majors Expand | |
| Leslie Sillars, Ph.D.Chairman of the Department of GovernmentChanges are coming to both the Government and Journalism majors at Patrick Henry College, as new courses will be offered in the fall, along with more flexible course tracks. ...more | |
| July 20, 2007 | |
| New Faculty Expands Academic Programs | |
| Patrick Henry College is pleased to welcome four new full-time professors to its faculty for the fall 2007 semester, replacing two outgoing professors and expanding its academic program."We're very excited about the new faculty," said PHC Provost Dr. Gene Edward Veith. ...more | |
| July 11, 2007 | |
| Advent Films Brings Full-length Feature to College | |
| Now, two years later, Forbes found himself crowded with more than thirty other Christians from across the nation into PHC's Nash Auditorium for the first day of filming on a full-length feature. ...more | |
| June 12, 2007 | |
| PHC's Winston Completes Theatrical Masterstroke | |
| So when Winston stepped up to a standing ovation in May following Eden Troupe's Spring finale of A Tale of Two Cities, having written the script, songs and musical score – as well as starring in the production – she felt simply a peaceful sense of completion. ...more | |
| May 23, 2007 | |
| 2007 Commencement Caps Remarkable Year | |
| On a sunny day that witnessed a record 59 graduates walk and PHC's new Chancellor and President formally installed, Wales chronicled the key, often stunning moments of a lifelong romance with cinema – beginning with an improbable encounter with a moviemaking genius. ...more | |
| May 14, 2007 | |
| Commencement Features Filmmaker, Investiture Rite | |
| CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 338-8727 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu Ken Wales to address largest commencement class Patrick Henry ...more | |
| May 10, 2007 | |
| Young Producer Finishes Full-Length Feature | |
| The idea for the movie stemmed from a play written in the late-eighties by Steve Losee, originally performed in Brooklyn as part of a street ministry evangelistic outreach. ...more | |
| May 07, 2007 | |
| PHC Library Receives American History Donation | |
| PHC Library recently completed sorting and processing a donation of nearly 2,000 items related to American history. ...more | |
| May 01, 2007 | |
| PHC Grad Accepted to Harvard Law | |
| Patrick Henry College graduate Matthew du Mée made Patrick Henry College history when he recently became the college's first alumnus to be accepted to Harvard Law School."Harvard is arguably the top law school in the country," said PHC Chancellor Michael Farris. ...more | |
| April 26, 2007 | |
| NEDA Parli Teams Finish Strong | |
| PHC Parliamentary Debate Team (L-R): Dominique Deming, Chris Tuggle, Lindsay See, Joseph Alm, Rebecca Ries, Storm Swensboe, Isaiah McPeak, Kawika Vellalos Patrick Henry College's Parliamentary Debate team recently finished its strongest season ever. ...more | |
| April 18, 2007 | |
| PHC Granted Accreditation By TRACS | |
| Virginia Beach, Va. ...more | |
| April 13, 2007 | |
| Soulforce Equality Ride Passes Peacefully | |
| Members of the Purcellville police, Loudoun County Sherriff's Office, and the State Patrol, stood vigil throughout the afternoon. ...more | |
| April 09, 2007 | |
| Soulforce Equality Ride Targets PHC | |
| Organizers of the Soulforce Equality Ride, a traveling group of homosexual activists, have announced they will target the campus of Patrick Henry College on April 12, in an attempt to enter the campus to engage students in uninvited dialogue about sex, sexual orientation, and gender. ...more | |
| March 29, 2007 | |
| Students Return from Model UN Conference | |
| "Whether you agree or disagree with the UN, it's a pretty strong institution and it's here to stay," said NMUN Head Delegate Kirk Anderson, a junior at PHC. ...more | |
| March 12, 2007 | |
| Culture Debate Coming to Town Hall | |
| Rev. John Rankin, founder and President of the Theological Education Institute, will be addressing a Mars Hill Forum with guest Rev. Barry Lynn, Director of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, on the question of "What is the Nature of Separation Between Church and State?" TEI's Mars Hill Forum series was began in 1993, and since its inception John has invited the most qualified skeptics he can find who wish to question his evangelical worldview and its public policy implications. ...more | |
| February 27, 2007 | |
| Debate Squad Dominant at Duquesne | |
| CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 338-8727 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu The 2007 Patrick Henry College Debate Team The Patrick Henry ...more | |
| February 22, 2007 | |
| Campaign Selects PHC Sophomore for Top Post | |
| PHC sophomore Ryan Rogge had hardly settled in for the Spring 2007 semester when he heard that Amber Smith, a PHC journalism student working in Baton Rouge, LA, was looking for him. ...more | |
| February 15, 2007 | |
| Student Applications Pour Into PHC | |
| Student Applications Pour Into PHC F O R I M M E D I A T E R E L E A S EFebruary 15, 2006CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 338-8727 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu PHC Admissions Counselor Tiffany Thompson sifts through influx of student applications As of mid-February, the PHC Department of Admissions reports that more students have applied for fall admission than at any other time in the College's history. ...more | |
| February 08, 2007 | |
| Campaign Launched on Behalf of German Teen | |
| Homeschool students and their families across America are being urged to flood the German embassy with e-mail, telephone calls and letters in support of a German teen who was taken by police to a psychiatric ward because she was being homeschooled. ...more | |
| January 25, 2007 | |
| TRACS Completes PHC Accreditation Site Review | |
| As is their policy with every school visited by a TRACS site team, the team did not offer a specific recommendation for or against accreditation. Instead, the team offered both praise and constructive commentary on a wide range of college functions, and provided a list of specific recommendations for improvement. During their visit, the team commented positively on teaching quality, leadership, self-study effectiveness, and newly enacted administrative and governance structures. A number of their specific recommendations constitute an opportunity for the College to provide additional evidence, before the April meeting, showing that the new governance structures are functioning as designed to advance the College's Christian educational mission."Based on their feedback during the visit and the exit interview," reported PHC President Graham Walker, "their (site team) overall perceptions of the College, its programs, classes, faculty and students were overwhelmingly positive. ...more | |
| January 24, 2007 | |
| Moot Court Team Shows Well, Places Third | |
| In the process, three PHC students took top individual "orator" awards, including first place by Lindsay See; fourth place by Caleb Dalton, and fifth place by Kirsten Winston, Dalton's moot court teammate. ...more | |
| January 18, 2007 | |
| Moot Court Team in Pursuit of Three-Peat | |
| While no college is eligible to send more than eight teams to the national finals, PHC, in fact, qualified an unprecedented nine at three regional tournaments in November and December."Whether we win a third national championship or not, there's no other college in the league that has multiple teams competing, each of which are quite readily capable of winning a national championship," said PHC Chancellor and Moot Court Coach, Dr. Michael Farris. ...more | |
