Mark Corbin: Men’s Volleyball Coach
by WES STEVICK ’29 • October 31, 2025
This fall, Mark Corbin was hired to be the head coach of the men’s volleyball team. According to the Houghton Athletics News, he has more than twenty years of experience, including coaching at Emmanuel University in Georgia, Truett McConnell University, and Bob Jones University under Vicki Denny. Corbin looks forward to working with “a group of men who are eager to grow in the game of volleyball and in their love for Christ, their school, and their community…
ENCORE: Who Are These Secretive Seniors?
by GRACE DESPAIN ’29 • October 25, 2025
Carolyn Pollock giggles and chats like all of the other girls in Introduction to Communication Theory. The only difference is her lifetime of experience. “I suppose I wanted to just be more engaged,” Pollock said about her involvement with the ENCORE senior citizen program…
Interim Provost Dr. Jill Jordan
by Emma Illian ’27 • October 10, 2025
As a student, graduate and professor, Interim Provost and Dean of the Faculty Dr. Jill (Brautigam) Jordan ‘99, has spent many years living and loving on Houghton University’s (HU) campus. Jordan graduated from HU with a Bachelor’s degree in mathematics and psychology with a violin performance minor. After getting her undergraduate degree, Jordan attended Bryn Mawr College for her master’s and Ph.D. in mathematics…
Finney Portrait Unveiling
by Elizabeth Carpenter ’27 • October 03, 2025
This Saturday at 10:30 a.m., a portrait of Constance “Connie” Finney will be unveiled in the Recital Hall. Finney graduated from Houghton University (HU) in 1978. Since then, she has served at HU as the field hockey coach, the Resident Director of East Hall, the Director of Student Life at HU’s West Seneca campus, and a professor at both Houghton’s West Seneca campus and main campus…
Tanya Perkins
by Kate Ulrich ’29 • September 26, 2025
At the beginning of the 2025-2026 academic year, Houghton University (HU) graduate Tanya Perkins ‘95 became the school’s new Director of Student Engagement…
Dean Scott Hallman
by Grace Bailey ’28 • September 19, 2025
Scott Hallman is Houghton University’s (HU) new Dean of Spiritual Life and Campus Pastor. For the last 30 years, Hallman worked as a pastor, in various capacities, in Pennsylvania, Maine and California. He is a licensed minister in the Brethren in Christ (BIC) Church…
In Defense of Student Council
by Aidan Fish ’25 • April 11, 2025
Members of Houghton University’s (HU) Student Council have become increasingly aware of the student body’s confusion regarding the organization’s role…
BeanBots: Friends or Enemies
by Vicky Gigi ‘XXV • March 28, 2025
It’s a slow morning on the campus of Houghton University. As the sun rises and people get ready to start their day, several machines placed in faculty lounges and offices wait for the first round of faculty to arrive…
Remembering the Chamberlains
by Houghton Star • March 21, 2025
President Daniel Chamberlain and his wife, Joyce Chamberlain, served Houghton’s community for three decades…
A Call to Theater
by Aidan Fish ’25 • March 14, 2025
From being on the tech team to being a performer, theater has been a part of the…
Evelyn Simanowski’s Musical Journey
by Jiana Martin ’26 • February 14, 2025
Senior Evelyn Simanowski ‘25’s greatest passion since childhood has been music. Pursuing music in her studies…
Dance Club
by Aivery Shuck ’26 • February 07, 2025
Houghton University’s (HU) Dance Club is a new affiliated campus club that meets in Presser Hall…
Grace Vuolo
by Rebecca Dailey ’25 • December 06, 2024
Grace Vuolo, a recent graduate from the Houghton University class of 2024, is gearing up to…
Rallying the Den
by Bethany Tubman ’25 • November 22, 2024
The sports marketing club failed to recharter, and the leaderless Den (the affectionate name for the…
Salvation Army Student Fellowship
by Logan Caroll ’26 • November 15, 2024
The Salvation Army was created when William and Catherine Booth saw the poverty stricken people in…