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414 String Quartet Enthralls Listeners

414 String Quartet Enthralls Listeners

The first ever performance of the 414 String Quartet at Maranatha Baptist University took place recently in Burckart Hall. Many of the attendees had only the highest praise for the concert, and the performers themselves indicated that they enjoyed the experience of...
MBU Hosts Tricia Braun, COO of the WEDC

MBU Hosts Tricia Braun, COO of the WEDC

On Thursday morning, September 13, MBU hosted a Business Community Breakfast featuring Tricia Braun, deputy secretary and chief operating officer for the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation(WEDC). WEDC is a public-private agency whose mission is to advance and...

Maranatha’s Community Breakfast Series

Last Thursday morning, Maranatha’s Dining Room was filled with students, staff, faculty members, and members of the local community to learn more about the state of Wisconsin’s economic marketing efforts. Tricia Braun, COO of the Wisconsin Economic Development...
6 Tips to a Successful Freshman Year

6 Tips to a Successful Freshman Year

We are almost done with our first week of classes here at Maranatha. What a week it has been! We have enjoyed special revival services with Mike and Mark Herbster, we have welcomed our freshman with copious amounts of syllabi, and we have seen campus get back to...
MBU Hosts Business Community Breakfast

MBU Hosts Business Community Breakfast

On August 14, 2018, MBU hosted a free breakfast for the local business community of Watertown, WI. Maranatha is thankful for the wonderful relationships with the local Watertown businesses. The breakfast served the purpose of providing community members with an...
Preseason is Here

Preseason is Here

The two-week preseason for men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s soccer, and women’s volleyball starts today for the Maranatha teams! This is a favorite time for many students who commit to being fall athletes. I talked to several of the head coaches of...
A New Structure and Vision

A New Structure and Vision

Leading an institution as broad and diverse as a university brings unique challenges. Like any wise leader sizing up his new position, Dr. Marty Marriott approached the early days of his presidency with an appropriate sense of patience and deference to the existing...
Experience Training Through Maranatha

Experience Training Through Maranatha

It seems like more and more people are encouraging travel and experience as part of education. We’ve discussed the benefits and dangers of doing this travel in the format of what is called a gap year, but what about during school? If you read the gap year article, I...
Five Tips for a Successful College Experience

Five Tips for a Successful College Experience

There is a movement in our generation right now that is trying to discredit the value of a college education. This movement tells students that higher education is not worth the money or that going to college will automatically cripple your financial future. Although...
3 Reasons to Consider an Internship

3 Reasons to Consider an Internship

What do Apple’s Steve Jobs, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, NFL’s Roger Goodell, Hollywood’s Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, Talk Show’s Oprah Winfrey, and Boeing’s Dennis Muilenburg have in common? Aside from being known as prominent leaders in our society, all of these...
Common Financial Aid Questions

Common Financial Aid Questions

Finances are such a massive part of going to college. People often question how they can pay for college, how can they get help in regard to finances, or just where to even start. There are several common questions that I have been asked regarding finances that I...
A Brand is a Promise

A Brand is a Promise

The Name The witty one-liner made a promise, but Maranatha’s former brand motto, “more than you expect,” could not fully describe what awaited students who came to Maranatha Baptist Bible College in Watertown, Wisconsin. Something needed to change. “Maranatha...

Taking a Gap Year?

“I’m going to take a year off to work.” This is a pretty frequent answer one will get when asking high school students what their plans are for college. This “gap year” as it has been called, is something our generation of American students are doing more frequently,...
Faculty Highlight: Jeff Pill, Soccer Coach

Faculty Highlight: Jeff Pill, Soccer Coach

If you’ve ever been to a Sabercats soccer game, sat on the bleachers or the grass, shaded your eyes while you watched the athletes run past, you’ve witnessed the strategy and seasons of investment of Coach Jeff Pill. He stands by the bench on the other...