BLUEFIELD, Va.—While the hand-made quilt was a necessary commodity for warmth in every remote house in Appalachia in the early 1900s, it also served as a decorative piece or an expression of love or remembrance of a person, time or…
Bluefield graduate key in effort to stop sex abuse
BLUEFIELD, Va.—The Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance, a coalition committed to ending sexual and domestic violence, recently named Bluefield College alumna Judy Casteele as one of the industry’s “Top 30 Most Influential People.” In celebration of its 30th…
Bluefield College launches search for official fight song
BLUEFIELD, Va. — Bluefield College is searching for an official fight song. As the school introduces its first intercollegiate football team since 1941 this fall, it will also introduce a new fight song to cheer on the Rams — one…
BC event features winter adventure, faith decisions
BLUEFIELD, Va. — Three hundred thirty-three youth from 12 churches across Virginia stormed the Bluefield College campus Jan. 14-16 for the school’s three-day extreme winter worship adventure known as Winter Blast. With skiing, sledding, tubing and other snow activities on…
Bluefield, medical center partner on health care
POCAHONTAS, Va. — On the site of the former Pocahontas High School — the hub of the rural community until closed in 2008 — leaders from Bluefield College and Clinch Valley Medical Center signed an agreement to create a health…
Bluefield College students explore Chinese society
BLUEFIELD, Va. — For the fifth semester in a row, students from Bluefield College shared history, language, tradition and time with students from China as part of the Baptist-affiliated school’s exchange program with the Jiangsu Institute of Education in Nanjing….
Bluefield College celebrates Baptist heritage with speaker, hymns
BLUEFIELD, Va. — Bluefield College celebrated its history and culture with an annual Baptist Heritage Day ceremony in October, featuring a keynote address from Baptist historian Bill Leonard, founding dean of Wake Forest University Divinity School. For the 12th consecutive…
Bluefield pays tribute to Appalachian culture with country music exhibit
BLUEFIELD, Va. — Southwest Virginians have an ear for music, and the “Crooked Road Royalty” photo and film exhibit at Bluefield College showcases and pays tribute to the long history of picking and singing in the Appalachian Mountains. The exhibit…
Bluefield College reduces tuition for degree completion students
BLUEFIELD, Va. — Bluefield College has reduced its tuition and fees for degree completion students by 25 percent. Tuition for inSPIRE degree completion students will now run $325 per credit hour, compared to $385 per credit hour last spring, a…
Bluefield College unveils $250,000 dining hall renovation project
BLUEFIELD, Va. — When Bluefield College students return for the fall 2011 semester, they just might not recognize the school’s dining hall, thanks to the completion of a quarter-million-dollar renovation project this summer. Not long after BC students left campus…
In Applachian county, Baptist teens improve lives through Impact Virginia
BLUEFIELD, Va. — Two hundred thirty youth from 13 Baptist churches across Virginia converged on the campus of Bluefield College July 24-30 to make a difference in the lives of families in southwest Virginia through a faith-based community service project…
Baptist teams renovate, repair facilities at Bluefield College
BLUEFIELD, Va. — Fifty-five members of Baptist churches from across Virginia and Tennessee spent part of their summer on the campus of Bluefield College on a mission to support their Baptist partner. The volunteers from eastern Tennessee and across Virginia…