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The 14,000 square-foot sports performance center features a weight room, nutrition bar and indoor turf training area, dedicated team meeting rooms, additional coaches' offices, and an enclosed pavilion and outdoor courtyard for Bears Club hospitality and engagement space.
Minor will lead the university's marketing and communication efforts, which connect LR with various audiences through an integrated and expanding platform of digital and social media channels, digital marketing and media relations.
The Bears name was adopted in 1924 after a sports reporter described the baseball team charging out of the dugout like mountain bears. The original Joe Bear was introduced to campus in 1927 as a live black bear, the symbol of the college athletics mascot.
Prior to LR, Pate served as director of athletics at the University of Illinois Springfield for five years, where she was responsible for the administration and oversight of a 16-sport NCAA Division II intercollegiate athletics program in the Great Lakes Valley Conference.
Barnette joins LR from Marietta College in Ohio, where she most recently served as assistant Vice President for enrollment management and director of admission.
Titled "Pivoting to a New Level of Excellence," is the culmination of a yearlong campus-wide effort that outlines a set of key challenges and actions to ensure the university's success.
The Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary of Lenoir-Rhyne University has launched Freed to Serve, a program aimed at eliminating tuition costs for seminarians within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Students embark on a weeklong performance and tour of Ireland learning a deeper understanding of the historical and cultural context of Irish music and culture in the process.
Shore serves as the lead academic and church administrator for LTSS and works to further develop the seminary to an exemplary status within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
The university's Phi Beta Lambda chapter won multiple awards at the 65th Annual North Carolina PBL State Leadership Conference held in Charlotte.
LR's Balloon Engineering and Rocketry Club took seven months to build and successfully launch a 92-inch rocket. They competed against teams selected from 22 states.
LR offered its first graduate degree program in the 1970s, and has since expanded to over 30 master and doctorate degree program offerings with more than 900 students enrolled.