Dordt in the News: Summer Edition

July 18

• “Iowa GOP delegate observing national convention as professor, too” (Radio Iowa)

Jeff Taylor, a political science professor at Dordt University in Sioux Center, was also a delegate at the GOP’s national convention in 2012. “Not only do I get new stories from this one, but the students are probably going to be able to relate to this experience a little more just because it’s happening right now,” Taylor said, with a laugh. “This fall and next year and the following year this is still going to be fresh in their mind.”

July 17

• “The Science of the Good Samaritan: Thinking Bigger about Loving Our Neighbors” (Reformed Journal)

Director of the Kielstra Center Dr. Angela Kroeze Visser writes a review of Dr. Emily Smith’s The Science of the Good Samaritan: Thinking Bigger about Loving Our Neighbors.

July 15

• Which Iowans were selected as delegates for the RNC? Here’s the list (Des Moines Register)

“Jeff Taylor: Iowa state senator and former professor of political science from Dordt University.”

July 10

• “Dordt-ISU team up to research mosquito spread” (KELO)

“Dordt University and Iowa State University are teaming up to research the swarms of mosquitoes in flood-affected areas in Northwestern Iowa, including Rock Valley.”

July 3

• “Sioux Center offers housing support” (Sioux Center News)

“Those impacted by floodwaters not only in Rock Valley, but Alton and Hawarden have found temporary residence in Sioux Center courtesy of Dordt University, which has offered the Every Square Inch Apartment complex that is a collection of four two-story buildings. Nearly all of the 16 units have residents from area communities, ranging from two to eight occupants per unit.”

July 1

• “Special Delivery: How a small team encourages annual giving with a creative incentive program” (CASE Currents)

The alumni and annual giving teams at Dordt University in Sioux Center, Iowa, U.S., are proud of the institution’s alumni giving rate: 18.89% of alumni made gifts to the university in the 2022–2023 fiscal year. “We ask Dordt alumni why they choose to give, and they repeatedly refer to faculty and staff who not only instructed them but mentored them along the way,” says Karen Van Schouwen, Director of Annual Giving.

June 29

• “Prairie board game in development at Dordt” (N’West Iowa REVIEW)

“A team of Dordt University professors and students is spending 10 weeks this summer designing and testing a new ecological board game that requires players to establish a restored prairie.”

June 26

• “Catastrophic flooding forces hundreds of Iowans to evacuate” (IPR’s “River to River”)

“Later in the hour, a new project addresses the decline of pollinators by getting Iowa students excited about beekeeping. Kieffer speaks with the project director Duane Bajema and curriculum specialist Melanie Bloom.”