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Rochester Christian University launches new Tuition-Free Scholarship
Rochester Christian University is addressing the rising costs of higher education by introducing a need-based Tuition-Free Scholarship available to students starting in fall 2025. The RCU Tuition-Free Scholarship will cover the remaining cost of tuition for qualified students after other scholarships and grants have been applied. To qualify for a Tuition-Free Scholarship, students must: Be admitted to RCU Be a freshman or new transfer student Qualify for a full Pell Grant Qualify for a full Michigan Achievement Scholarship List RCU as the first choice on their FAFSA The Tuition-Free Scholarship is available to full-time students who commute or
The Christian Chronicle: Episode 97: He coached 720 games and won four national championships … and his team was ‘homeless’ the whole time (Coach Garth Pleasant)
Read the full article here: https://christianchronicle.org/episode/episode-97-he-coached-720-games-and-won-four-national-championships-and-was-homeless-the-whole-time-coach-garth-pleasant/.
University board announces interim president
The Rochester Christian University Board of Trustees has selected Tom Rellinger, executive vice president and chief financial officer, to serve as interim president until a new leader begins his or her official duties in 2025. Rellinger, a 1980 alumnus, has worked at the university since 2011 when he served as director of development and alumni relations. In 2013, he was promoted to vice president, and in 2017, he was appointed to executive vice president. Some of his key accomplishments during his time at RCU have been assisting the university in the creation and implementation of an overall five-year strategic
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EVENTS
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RCU’s Christmas Sing-Along Extravaganza
Join the Rochester Christian University Department of Theatre & Music and special guests in a celebration of the season filled with your favorite Christmas stories and carols, plus some new surprises. And the best part of it? You get to sing along! Bring the whole family and banish the holiday humbugs with a night of good, old fashioned Christmas cheer! And don’t forget your favorite Christmas sweater!
Warrior Days
Warrior Days are specifically designed to give you and/or your family a full experience of campus life at Rochester Christian University. You’ll get the chance to meet RCU faculty and students like you, attend a class session, tour the campus and learn about our academic programs and commitment to faith-based education. Warrior Days for traditional students will be hosted: February 14, 2025 April 4, 2025 Register here: https://form.jotform.com/71304466032952
Warrior Days
RCU’s Christmas Sing-Along Extravaganza
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The “Apocalyptic Tradition” in Churches of Christ: A Countercultural Remembrance and Challenge
In his essay for Rochester Retrospect,* Dr. David Greer, professor of history, examines a foundational but neglected countercultural tradition within the American Restoration Movement from which Churches of Christ and Rochester University emerged. This “apocalyptic tradition,” he argues, retains value for grounding and guiding the mission of RU today. The pursuit of truth and freedom Greer begins by identifying two primary aims of RU’s founders in 1959: first, to provide an environment for the encouragement of Christian faith, devotion and leadership; and second, to offer a high-quality regionally-accessible education rooted in the liberal arts. Both missions, Greer notes,
Alexander Campbell, liberal arts and integrative learning
In his second essay for Rochester Retrospect*, Dr. Keith Huey, professor of religion, looks at Alexander Campbell’s philosophy of education. If you missed Huey’s first essay about Campbell and Barton Stone, founders of the Stone-Campbell movement, click here to read it before you delve deeper into Campbell’s educational outlook. Although Campbell never attended a full collegiate program, he was “extremely well-educated and possessed a prodigious intellect,” Huey writes. Campbell lived from 1788-1866 and he was critical of the educational status quo for that time period. He wrote about several important issues, including the “inadequacy of all the present systems
No Creed but the Bible: The Story of Scripture in Churches of Christ
In his Rochester Retrospect* essay, Dr. Mark Love, RCU professor of theology and ministry and founder of 1528 Collaborative, explores how the Churches of Christ have approached the reading of scripture throughout the decades. From their inception until the present day, Churches of Christ have been a “people of the book,” who rely on the sole authority of the Bible in matters of faith and doctrine, Love writes. The church has changed the way it interprets the Bible, but it still gives priority to scripture. The Golden Thread: No Creed but the Bible By rejecting creeds, as established
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