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Stetson reintroduces Kappa Alpha Theta to campus

Theta to start recruiting members in the fall. This fall, Stetson University is reintroducing the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta to campus, bringing the total number of chapters at Stetson to 14: seven fraternities and seven sororities. Founded in 1870, Kappa Alpha Theta is the first Greek-letter fraternity for women. Their core values are scholarship, leadership, […]

Vote Hatter Harvest for Seeds of Change Grant: Make a Difference

To vote, visit the Hatter Harvest page. Participants are allowed one vote per day through Mon., Apr. 18, when the voting period closes.  Hatter Harvest, a student-led volunteer organization at Stetson University, needs your help. The Seeds of Change Grant Program is hosting an online contest that awards over $300,000 in grants to schools and […]

Stetson University Marketing Wins 6 CASE Awards

Competitive awards recognize design, writing excellence Stetson University Marketing won five first-place awards and one second-place award at this year’s CASE Circle of Excellence Awards. This program recognizes outstanding work in advancement services, alumni relations, communications, fundraising and marketing as judged by peer professionals at schools, colleges and universities as well as by professionals from […]

Senior Art now on display at Stetson’s Hand Art Center

The Stetson University Senior Thesis Exhibition will open with a public reception Friday, March 18, from 6-8 p.m., at the university’s Homer and Dolly Hand Art Center. The art exhibition will remain open through April 2. The opening reception and the art exhibition are open to the public, free of charge. The senior students exhibiting […]

New Advisor To Lead Edmunds Scholars Program

When you first meet Dixon Sutherland, Ph.D., you don’t immediately realize the impact he has had on the lives of some of Stetson University’s best scholars and students. Sutherland is a professor of religious studies, and is well known for his work with students in that area, but his other claim to fame is that […]

TEDx comes to Stetson University for fourth year

Stetson University will host the annual TEDx event, Friday, March 18, at 4 p.m. in Allen Hall, 508 N. Woodland Blvd., on the DeLand campus. TEDx is a subsidiary of the world-renowned TED organization which holds conferences relating to Technology, Entertainment and Design on a local scale. Stetson introduced TEDx to the university community in 2013 […]

Stetson’s NOW chapter to host “The Vagina Monologues”

The annual production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, will be presented at Stetson University on Friday, Feb. 26, and Saturday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m., by the Stetson Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). It will be followed by a silent auction. The event will be held in the Second Stage Theater, […]

Gunderson art exhibit celebrates 40 years at Stetson University

Professor of Art Dan Gunderson, will celebrate 40 years at Stetson University with his upcoming art exhibition in Stetson’s Hand Art Center, Jan. 22 through Feb. 26. The Hand Art Center is located at 139 E. Michigan Ave. on Stetson’s DeLand campus. The exhibit is open to the public, free of charge. “Everyone, no matter […]

Stetson Poetry Workshop Highlights Diversity and Acceptance

“The more differences that exist among us, the more chances we have to query our own assumptions,” said Terri Witek, Ph.D., professor of English and award-winning poet, about her poetry workshop. It is not unusual to find extensive diversity in her classroom because she provides a safe place for people with different majors, ethnicities, genders, […]

Outstanding Hatters recognized at Homecoming 2015

Homecoming is a time when Stetson University honors its own outstanding alumni and faculty. Stetson President Wendy B. Libby and Scott Bruin ’75, president of the Alumni Association, presented the 2015 awards of distinction to five alumni and one professor at the President’s Champagne Breakfast held Saturday morning, Nov. 14, on the Stetson Green. 2015 […]

Vietnam Remembrance Site to be dedicated during Homecoming

“Telling stories seemed a natural, inevitable process, like clearing the throat. Partly catharsis, partly communication, it was a way of grabbing people by the shirt and explaining exactly what had happened to me,” wrote Tim O’Brien, Vietnam veteran, in his book The Things They Carried, on why it was important for him to write. Vietnam […]