Sponsored clinic extends open invitation
The Invitation Clinic, sponsored by Taylor University, has a dual purpose: training students to be caring, effective health educators and serving Grant County residents.
The Invitation Clinic, sponsored by Taylor University, has a dual purpose: training students to be caring, effective health educators and serving Grant County residents.
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In Nov. 2025, Taylor University purchased the radio stations “Your Country 99.2” WCJC Van Buren and “Star 106.9” WXXC Marion from the legacy radio network Hoosier AM/FM in Marion, Ind., a company that has lasted for over 75 years.
Campus organizations at Taylor University can no longer be nationally affiliated after Fall 2025, wrote vice president for student development Skip Trudeau in a campus-wide email on Dec. 8, 2025.
President D. Michael Lindsay announced plans to erect a cross on Taylor’s campus in chapel Wednesday, Jan. 26.
Christian music group Rend Collective is coming to Taylor Feb. 21. Tickets cost $15 for students and $30 for general admission.
Taylor University’s bachelor of science in mechanical engineering has received accreditation.
During Shrek the Musical’s Nov. 14 performance, one of the wall arches protruding from both sides of the stage fell off its track mid-performance.
Taylor is saving energy, money and time by slowly replacing their traditional water heating system with a new innovation: tankless water heaters.
Helping Hands continues to live up to its name this holiday season.
The Main Street Mile Initiative’s Community Coordinator Program is hiring a graphic designer. The position includes creating professional and informative graphics for social media platforms that spread awareness of the Main Street Mile Initiative’s programs.
This is the first year the Financial Aid office is offering the Global Trip Grant, a scholarship for students with high financial need who are pursuing an overseas practicum or internship.
At 4 a.m. on Nov. 3, an Upland home caught fire.
Taylor University plans to build a new dorm by Fall 2027, Julia Hurlow, dean of campus life, said. It will be built where the Ferdinand Freimuth Administration Building currently stands.
Recruiter Whitney O’Brien stopped at Taylor to speak about the possibilities of Taylor students interning at Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian aid organization. O’Brien works at Samaritan’s Purse’s Campus Relations team, travelling to different universities and telling of the work the organization does.
Construction on the Upland bridge has progressed with pouring concrete, forming the deck and the reinforced approaches on Oct. 31.
Taylor’s residence life program is one of the school’s characteristic features, Julia Hurlow, dean of campus life, said. The close-knit community is reminiscent of the early church.
Construction outside of the Larita Boren Campus Center continues with a projected completion date of June 2027. The goal is to create an expanded space for campus use.
Thomas Kidd, research professor of church history at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, spoke on the faith of Thomas Jefferson and his complex relationship to Scripture on Oct. 23 for Taylor’s Halbrook Lecture in the Recital Hall.
Long tables lined with vegetable trays, pasta salad, pulled pork and chili. Another table filled with mountains of cookies and apple pie cupcakes. Little kids weaving through grown-ups’ legs. The sound of fiddles and banjos filling the large room. People laughing on the dance floor, boasting their best fall flannels.