Covenant College has confirmed that it is eligible for tax credits worth between $3.5 million and $4 million dollars for its historic renovation of Carter Hall.
Read moreDebate Team Goes to D.C.
Last weekend, Covenant’s debate team of ten students took 4th place out of 12 colleges in the Values and Capitalism Debate competition in Washington, D.C. after debating on a wide range of topics ranging from the Trans-Pacific Partnership to the Syrian refugee Crisis.
Read moreStudents Call for Greater LGBT Awareness on Campus
For student “Lyndsey Wheeler,”* Covenant’s tight-knit dating culture and satirized reputation as “the marriage mill on the hill” elicits a gauntlet of challenges beyond the usual breakup or relational conflict: Wheeler has grappled with same-sex attraction since at least middle school.
Read moreReady, Set, Go! Covenant's Track Team
When Katie Stanford came to Covenant College four and a half years ago to coach cross country, she had a vision for starting a track and field program at Covenant, but it wasn’t until September that the first proposal for that vision was approved by the college.
Read moreHere Comes the Crane
If you haven’t noticed by now, there’s a large crane on campus next to Carter Hall.
Read moreConnecting Student Leaders
Every spring semester, dozens upon dozens of Covenant students fill out extensive student leadership applications, in the hopes of serving their fellow Scots through leadership in the fall.
Read moreA Few Farewells
This semester, two Covenant staff members, Marsha Fitzgerald and Yvonne Terney, have left the Covenant Community and have both taken positions in church administration.
Read moreCPD Officers Not Charged in Shooting of Javario Eagle
Nearly two months after Javario Eagle, 24, was shot to death in Chattanooga, Hamilton County District Attorney General Neal Pinkston announced on Wednesday he will not be filing charges against the six officers who killed him.
Read moreTHT Major Reinstatement
When the college hired an actress as professor 16 years ago, they should have expected that the result would be a resilient and vibrant theatre department.
Read moreCore Curriculum Changes
With so much focus on the restoration of Carter Hall these days, it is easy to miss the fact that there are other renovations happening within the Covenant community, and on a more academic level.
Read moreStudent Senate Budget Cut by $20,000
“If we don’t know what enrollment is going to look like in Fall of 2016, and it’s going to affect our budgets, affect the clubs, affect the students, then we are in a loop,” says Ocailap.
Read moreCarter Update
Carter Hall renovations have progressed to Phase Two, which will include more double windows, a new roof, stucco, and stonework around the veranda for the north-central portion of the building.
Read moreSince We've Been Gone
Here’s the Chattanooga news you may have missed since last semester.
Read moreBiology Department Hiring
The search is over; Heath Garris, PhD, is stepping up as the new Biology Professor after Dr. Jerome Wenger retired Spring of 2016.
Read moreDoctor Doctor Madueme
Not many college professors can sport both a medical doctorate and a theology doctorate on their office walls.
Read moreMeal Plan Update
Last spring semester, Dean Brad Voyles concluded that he would reconsider the mandatory meal plan for the 2016-2017 academic year.
Read moreTitle IX
This past year, Covenant College, among dozens of religious institutions across the nation, received a waiver recognizing the school’s exemption from Title IX policy— a gender and now transgender equality bill for federally funded institutions.
Read moreBiology Department Hiring
When Dr. Jerome Wenger retired last spring, the Biology Department began to search for his replacement.
Read moreSyrian Refugee Crisis
The series of coordinated terror attacks on Paris last month not only claimed the lives of 130 innocent citizens, but may have also seriously hurt the chances of Syrian refugees attempting to resettle in the United States.
Read moreCarter Hall Renovations
In the past years, winding drives up Lookout Mountain have climaxed with the stately sight of Carter Hall, the focal point of the campus.
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