At Spencerville Adventist Academy (SAA), starting the school year with a spiritual retreat at Mt. Aetna Retreat Center in Hagerstown, Md., is a cherished tradition for high school students.
At the Board of Education meeting held yesterday in Silver Spring, Md., Donovan Ross, vice president of Columbia Union Conference’s Office of Education, reported there are 7,524 students in Columbia Union’s 79 schools this year.
As I enter my senior year at Pine Forge Academy, I can confidently say that these past three years have been the most transformative of my teenage life.
If you were to ask Highland View Academy (HVA) students what some of their least favorite memories of HVA are, many would likely say their long trips in a hot (and sometimes smelly) bus because the A/C had gone out again. Or maybe they would describe crawling over the van seats because the door, which had just been “fixed,” was jammed again.
Enrollment in the Master of Divinity (MDiv) program at Andrews University’s Seventh-day Theological Seminary has expanded to include 460 students, the highest enrollment in the last six years and the second highest in the program’s history.
Twelve Washington Adventist University team members recently (CPR) traveled to Mandeville, Jamaica, to sign a memorandum of understanding with Northern Caribbean College.
Pine Forge Academy (PFA) was founded in 1946 and was envisioned to be a boarding school in the North where African American high school students could attend without the racial issues taking place in schools in the South.
Spring Valley Academy (SVA) has long believed in the importance of mission trips. This academic year, students will have the opportunity to take a mission trip to Kenya in Spring 2025, with the possibility of two more international mission trips during that same period. But this past summer, Chaplain Joel Greve led a group on a mission trip much closer to home.
Many students struggle to see the practical application of many of their required subjects. It can be challenging to understand why certain topics and activities are necessary.