Archives: Initiatives
If you never thought that attending an anime convention would be a requirement for an English class, then you haven’t read the syllabus for English 356: Manga and Anime.
Read more about Ramencon and the Anime class.
Trinity is pleased to offer talented performances by our theatre and music departments. All performances that require tickets can be found at our box office via phone, in person or the online box office.
The Trinity mathematics department began the competition in 1994 as a service to Christian middle schools to promote interest in mathematics and to bolster the self-esteem of students successful in academic settings, particularly mathematics. In the intervening years, thousands of students from more than 50 different Christian schools and home-school associations representing four Midwestern states have solved mathematics problems at the event.
Trinity’s nursing students continued their perfect pass rate on the NCLEX-RN. The College is celebrating its second year with a 100% pass rate and third straight year at least 12% above the national year-to-date average.
The exams are administered by NCSBN, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, through which boards of nursing act and counsel together to provide regulatory excellence for public health, safety, and welfare. The exam is taken after the student graduates from a bachelor’s degree-granting nursing program.
Tina Decker, head of Trinity’s Nursing Department, emphasized that the impressive showing was due in part to the relationship between the students and their teachers: “Students at Trinity Christian College are not just numbers,” Decker said. The faculty know each one of the students as an individual, and are committed to helping the student meet their potential.”
When asked how Trinity can keep their streak going, Decker said the Nursing Department would “continue promoting a community that emphasizes the importance of nursing as a vocation.”
Trinity’s nursing program is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.
The mission of the Trinity Alumni Nursing Association (TANA) is to support the Department of Nursing through student-related activities, public relations, and fundraising, and to foster personal and professional relationships among alumni.
A member of the Class of ’15 who is now an alumni prayer partner said:
“This prayer partnership has been such a great source of strength and motivation for me. Knowing that there is someone else who went through similar struggles as you, and hearing words of wisdom and encouragement from them really gave me that extra push to overcome the challenges of nursing school. It has definitely made a huge contribution to my success during and after nursing school.”
This is what the Trinity Alumni Nursing Association is all about. Nurses helping Nurses! Would you like to get involved? Contact us at tana@trnty.edu.
Contact us at tana@trnty.edu.
Semester in Spain is a Spanish language immersion study abroad program of Trinity Christian College. With native professors, you will excel academically while living in the bustling and historic city of Seville. Participating in this program is a requirement for a degree in Spanish.
Learn more about the Semester in Spain program.
Art is a dialogue without words. Just as in a good library where a wide range of views are represented, so in our gallery you will see a cross section of work and viewpoints from across the art world. The gallery presents five shows by professional artists each year. These artists range from internationally famous artists like Tim Rollins to Conrad Bakker before he was well known to Chicago artists.
For more information, visit the Seerveld Gallery page.
To be in Galesburg at night is to hear a cacophony of train whistles and Harley engines, but for portraitist and Knox Artist-in-Residence John Bakker, bikers and train conductors can only begin to encapsulate the Galesburg experience.
Bakker, Professor of Art and Design at Trinity Christian College, just finished a three-month residency characterized by his determination to honor and embrace the people of Galesburg. Bakker’s Galesburg Portrait Project, currently hosted at The Box, is a work in progress that seeks to represent the Galesburg community through an arrangement of 310 hand-painted portraits.
The Galesburg Portrait Project confronts attitudes in the culture that he finds profoundly dehumanizing. “To pay attention to somebody for the two or three hours that it takes to make a painting is a performance that affirms their humanity, their dignity, their worth,” Bakker said.
Bakker is concerned with representing a wide array of people. He hopes to showcase a plethora of ethnicities, economic backgrounds and social statuses. Bakker devoted equal time to each person’s portrait.
In this way, Bakker challenges the traditional interpretation of portraits being the domain of the influential and wealthy. “It’s about saying, whatever economic circumstances you’re in, you matter,” Bakker said.
Throughout the installation process, Bakker grew increasingly concerned about the potential for bias in his portrayal of Galesburg residents. In an effort to showcase residents as they presented themselves, Bakker chose to solicit personal photographs rather than take them himself. However, this choice had the potential to result in participation bias, particularly toward women and people of a certain socioeconomic status.
With these concerns in mind, Bakker made an earnest effort to connect with those who lack the necessary technology to transmit photographs and information digitally. Bakker even went so far as to photograph people himself as evidenced by a central panel that features a man astride a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
Discouraged by his minimal number of male subjects, Bakker was drowning his sorrows at the local KFC when he encountered the biker. Bakker immediately seized upon the chance to depict the Galesburg biker contingent, and followed him out to the parking lot to ask for a picture. After completing the portrait, Bakker rushed the still-wet painting to the biker at the Shady Hill Saloon, where he hoped to meet more potential male subjects.
When Bakker arrived, the bar was practically empty and his hopes were dashed. But Bakker was gratified by the biker’s reaction to his portrait.
“He couldn’t stop smiling, you could tell he was just really touched by the fact that somebody had done his picture,” Bakker said.
Several institutions have already expressed an interest in displaying the project including City Hall, Knox College, The Beanhive and the Kensington. No official schedule has been established, but Bakker hopes the community will take ownership of the project.
“I care that it ends up in a place where people take care of it. It’s one of the reasons I want the text on the side of the box it will become this historical artifact,” Bakker said.
But the Galesburg Portrait Project cannot begin its journey until it’s officially completed. Bakker will return to Galesburg in the spring to complete and present the project Ñ which will include the addition of six or seven mirrored panels. The mirrors will be placed at various heights and angles, enabling all viewers to see themselves in the context of the Galesburg community.
“My hope is that, whoever you are in Galesburg, when you look at it, you go, ‘Oh yeah, this is us,’” Bakker said.