Night on the Town
Over 300 students packed the New Ulm Armory for one of the most anticipated events of the year. With a chocolate fountain, a photo booth, live MLC Jazz Band music, games, and 600 cake pops, Night on the Town was an unforgettable event. “My favorite part was getting all dressed up and seeing everyone look fancy!” says sophomore DeAndre Parker (MVL / St. Paul’s-St. James MN). “And dancing with friends is always a blast and a half!”
Night on the Town is made possible every year by Anchor, MLC’s service club. Anchor member Lindsay Hughes (KML / Good Shepherd-West Bend WI) describes the event as “a great way for our campus family to have a fun night together, while also raising money for a good cause.” This year over $1,700 was raised for Maggie (Schultz) Schwartz (Luther / St. John-La Crosse WI), an MLC student who is battling cancer. Her brothers and sisters in Christ continue to keep her in their prayers and are thankful for the opportunity to support her through Night on the Town.
New Ulm’s warm weather is here to stay, and that can only mean one thing—Arbor Day! Last week, the entire student body split into groups to tidy up MLC’s campus, local parks, and the homes of shut-ins and professors. The students were ecstatic to spend some time in the sun and skip a day of classes, but Senior Class President Tom Nicholson (Portage HS / Cross of Christ-Portage WI) reminds us that there’s even more to Arbor Day than that.
If you visit MLC, you might wonder, “Who are those snazzy students walking around in khakis and red pullovers?” It’ll only take the moment one of them says “hello” for you to realize that those friendly faces are MLC’s student ambassadors.
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ST. PAUL – The Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) released its academic honors from the fall semester, and 84 Martin Luther College student-athletes were named Academic All-UMAC. Those 84 honorees were the most of any school in the conference.
MLC Day will be a day of celebration for our college and all who support our ministry. With an emphasis on communication through social media, MLC Day will allow supporters across the globe to follow our activities online, share our message with friends, pray for our work of service, and give to support that work. Pray, Share, Give will be the focus of our second annual event held on May 4. That focus will also be a part of messages shared with MLC online ambassadors—social media followers of MLC interested in spreading the good news of the gospel and the good news of MLC’s role in that proclamation. Watch for more information!
With your support through congregational mission offerings, the establishment of endowments, estate designations, and many direct gifts, Martin Luther College is able to keep educational costs for our students to a reasonable level. In fact, the student costs at MLC are low enough to attract the attention of Money magazine, Washington Monthly, and most recently USA Today. USA Today reported: “. . . the costs of getting that [college] education increase every year, far surpassing the college savings of many families. . . . Martin Luther College keeps costs low, with the average yearly cost of the school being $18,000. [Our total cost this year is actually $18,920.] Students graduate in an average of 4.4 years bringing the total degree cost to $78,600. This makes Martin Luther College very underpriced when compared to schools of similar quality.” What USA Today doesn’t realize is that our ranking is only possible through the support of WELS and our faithful donors. Thank you!
The Lord has blessed MLC with stable opening enrollments over the last seven years. Our official fall opening enrollment for 2015-2016 was 723 students on campus. We are grateful for continued recruitment efforts, which brought over 500 high school students to our campus for the Focus on Ministry weekends and over 300 students for our third annual Tip-off Tournament. Our mid-year commencement service was held on December 17 where 22 students received degrees. From that pool of graduates, five temporary calls were issued: four education and one staff ministry. Our official second semester opening enrollment is 685 full-time students on campus.
