BC Receives Full Membership in NCAA Division II

On Monday, July 28th BC announced that its Athletics program had achieved full status in the NCAA Division II and the South Atlantic Conference.  Gaining full membership in the NCAA usually takes around four years, but Brevard completed the process in half the time.  The college supports 18 intercollegiate athletic sports, recently adding football, cycling and women’s golf to the mix.

The press conference included comments from Brevard College President Drew Van Horn, new South Atlantic Conference Commissioner Patrick Britz, BC Athletics Director Kim Pate, Head Coaches Mike Jones and Paul Hamilton and student-athlete Jessica Guadagno. Britz said that he looked forward to spending time on the BC campus this year and was “excited and thrilled” to welcome Brevard College to the SAC.  BC sports may not compete for championships in the NCAA beginning this fall.

BC To Make Historic Announcement on Monday, July 28

On Monday, July 28th at 2 pm in the Francis Pavilion of The Porter Center for the Performing Arts, Brevard College will make a historic announcement about its athletic programs’ membership status.  In 2007, Brevard College received provisional National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II membership status, and was invited as a provisional member of the South Atlantic Conference schedule during the 2007-08 academic year

The press conference will include comments from Brevard College President Drew Van Horn, new South Atlantic Conference Commissioner Patrick Britz, BC Athletics Director Kim Pate, Head Coaches Mike Jones and Paul Hamilton and student-athlete Jessica Guadagno.  Refreshments will be served after the conference.

Lascivious Biddies come to the Porter Center

Tickets: $25 & $20 for adults / $10 students

The Lascivious Biddies, an all female cocktail pop quartet based in New York City, are making headlines for having an energetic and tightly woven live show full of humor, expert musicianship, and a dash of sentimentality. Blending jazz, pop, and cabaret with four-part harmonies, this irrepressible foursome have carried their fresh, genre-defying sound from coast to coast and have been featured on The Food Network, The Discovery Channel, a national TV commercial for Chili’s Restaurants, the CBS Evening News, and heard nationally on NPR.

Visit the Porter Center web site (www.theportercenter.org) for additional information.

BC Summer Movie Series at the Porter Center

BC’s Jo Pumphrey Chosen for Prestigious Art Exhibition

BC Art Professor Jo Pumphrey was recently chosen to be part of the 26^th Annual National Small Works Exhibition in Schoharie County, upstate New York. Her work, The Gift of Peace, was one of 75 works selected from over 500 national entries for exhibition.

The National Small Works Exhibition features exciting new work by artists in all mediums, and is recognized for its long history of esteemed jurors. This year’s selections will be displayed in the Arkell Museum, which houses works by artists such as Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, and the American Impressionists.

Jo Pumphrey came to BC as a part-time faculty member in 1987 and in 1990 joined the full-time faculty. When asked about The Gift of Peace, she said, “I am broadly interested in our spiritual response to the things that shape our lives, as well as to our human connection with the natural environment. Most of the work I've done since September 11, 2001, including the painting chosen for this exhibit, has been about seeking peace or equilibrium within conditions of chaos or conflict.” 

The exhibit opened June 13th and will be on display through most of July of this year.

To see more of Jo Pumphrey's work please visit her Brevard College online gallery.

College Meets Challenge Grant!

Brevard College had an anonymous donor make a $250K Challenge: he agreed to give BC $250,000 in Loyalty Fund dollars if we could match it with an additional $250,000 in NEW Loyalty Fund dollars between January 1 and May 31, 2008.  (NEW meaning that any prior pledge payments that came in during this period would not count toward the Challenge.)

The college is delighted to report that it met this Challenge and exceeded the $250K Challenge, raising more than half a million dollars for our Loyalty Fund Scholarships!

BC Hosts ACA Conference

Brevard College is proud to host the ACA Conference from June 2 – 7.  The 2008 Teaching and Learning Institute will take place on the campus of Brevard College.

The Appalachian College Association is a non-profit consortium of 37 private two- and four-year liberal arts colleges and universities spread across the central Appalachian mountains in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Collectively these higher education institutions serve approximately 44,000 students.  The Association helps develop and share ideas, information, programs and resources to achieve its goals, which include promoting cooperation and collaboration among its member institutions to serve the people of Appalachia through higher education and related services. The ACA functions independently of any one institution to serve all its members.

Brevard College’s Institute for Women in Leadership Names Inaugural Class

MAY 7, 2008 (Brevard, NC) Beginning in the fall of this year, Brevard College will launch the Institute for Women in Leadership (IWIL) and today proudly announces the newly selected members of the inaugural year.

Brevard College Sophomore publishes article on Effects of Coal Mining

MAY 6, 2008 (Brevard, NC)—On April 29^th, Brevard College sophomore, Alexandria “Allie” Mathews’ article “Destroying America One Mountain at a Time” was featured in the online publication Aced Magazine.  In it, Mathews sheds light on a growing symptom of the US fuel crisis – specifically, the destruction of mountains in the Southern Appalachia for the sake of coal mining.  In order to retrieve coal from neighboring mountain ranges, fuel companies must blow up mountains to extract the coal that lies beneath: “Over 2,500 tonsof explosives are used per day in Appalachia. For fuel companies to get 40 million tons of coal, 2,400 acres of land must be destroyed or 24 acres for every 4 million tons of coal.”  Coal is the cheapest source of energy used in America and the typical southeastern home in the United States burns 6 tonsof coal a year.

"It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing"

A Mothers' Day  concert featuring the  Hendersonville Swing Band, Sunday May 11th at 3 PM at the Porter Center for Performing Arts. Tickets available at Rockin' Robin's Records and at the door, open seating.

Tickest are $15 and benefit the Free Rein Center where "horses help humans heal."

For more information, call 884-4932 or 877-3262.

posted 5/5/08

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