Spire Magazine 2021

Spotlights

Bluefield University announced their partnership with Apple to bring new iPad bundles to every on- campus student and faculty member this coming fall semester. The new initiative, ‘RAMSConnect’, will ensure students have equal access to their classroom experience. As students returned to campus in August, each on-campus student received the iPad Air 4, Smart Keyboard, and the Apple Pencil 2. Students will be able to keep these devices upon graduating from BU.

Laura Kimzey, a junior at Bluefield University from Blacksburg, VA, has been accepted into a study- abroad program, Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU) GlobalEd Semester (formally BestSemester), where she will travel to Oxford in the spring semester of 2022. Kimzey also recently won first place in the oral presentation portion in the Blue Ridge Undergraduate Research Conference (BRURC).

Bluefield University students participated in an all- day trip to Charlotte, NC, April 17, where they visited the Historic Latta Plantation and the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts and Culture. Both the Latta Plantation and the Harvey B. Gantt Black Cultural Museum had tours and educational features on black culture. Organized by BC’s Public Relations II class, the field trip was designed to increase the overall awareness of black culture within the student body.

The Center for Counseling and Wellness has adopted a new furry friend by the name of Hazel, where she will serve as a therapy dog to students. Hazel currently serves as an emotional support animal until she is trained as a certified therapy dog. She began her training in August with four courses in six-week increments.

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