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Nine Faculty Receive Promotion in Rank

Events, Faculty, News

The Lee University Board of Directors recently a warded promotion in rank to nine faculty members. Five faculty were promoted to professor and four were promoted to associate professor. The […]

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Registration for Encore is Underway

Academics, Events, News

Lee University’s Encore Program, which offers people age 60 and over the opportunity to take university courses, has announced its fall 2021 offerings, consisting of both in-person and online options. […]

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Cook Challenges Graduates at Lee’s Commencement

Events, Graduation, News

Lee University conferred 178 degrees on Saturday, July 31, during its summer commencement ceremony. Attendees heard speaker Phil Cook challenge the graduates in Lee’s traditional ceremony in the Conn Center. […]

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Summer Honors 2021 Takes Place at Lee

Academics, Events, News, Summer Honors

By Merritt Jenkins Lee University’s 36th annual Summer Honors program recently hosted 190 incoming freshmen and rising high school seniors from around the country for a two-week experience. This spiritual, […]

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Lee Students Visit Border on Global Perspectives Trip

Academics, Events, News

By Merritt Jenkins Thirteen Lee University students, along with Drs. Murl Dirksen and Arlie Tagayuna, recently visited the border towns of El Paso, Texas, and Douglas, Arizona, in order to […]

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Summer ESL Camp Begins July 22

Academics, Events, News

Lee University’s English Language Center is offering a free ESL (English as a Second Language) camp for rising 1st through 6th grade students. The camp will be held July 12-16 […]

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Rutherford Presents at DC’s Posters on the Hill

Events, News, Student Success

By Merritt Jenkins Lee University social sciences major Anna Rutherford recently presented at the virtual Posters on the Hill Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Conference, held in Washington, D.C. “Although […]

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Kay McDaniel Tennis Clinic Another Success

Events, News

The 29th annual Kay McDaniel Summer Tennis Clinic, held at Lee University, recently concluded with 225 participants. Children ages 6-13 came from several cities to learn from director Kay McDaniel […]

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Lee Alumnus Wins Reality Cooking Show “Chopped”

Alumni, Events, News

Lee alumnus Kenyatta Ashford ’00, ’02, recently won Food Network’s “Chopped,” a reality-based cooking television show that pits four chefs against each other as they compete for a chance to […]

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Lee University’s CELL Receives Dollar General Literacy Foundation Grant

Events, Grants, Language and Literature, News

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation recently awarded Lee University’s Center for English Language & Literacy (CELL) a $6,900 grant to support family literacy. “I am so grateful for Dollar General’s […]

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