Cedarville News

July 3, 2026 — The Maxwell and White families faced loss, uncertainty, and suffering in 2025. Yet through God's faithfulness, supportive relationships, and a caring community, they discovered that even amid heartbreak, beauty can emerge from ashes.

July 1, 2026 — Recent Cedarville graduate Haley Mast is helping drive Peak Retirement Planning’s rapid expansion by leading key parts of the hiring process, supporting recruiting strategy and helping build the company’s culture as it adds more than 20 employees.

June 30, 2026 — Cedarville University faculty member Dr. Luke Fredette and staff members Jeff Reep and Cheryl Shupe received 2025-26 SOCHE Excellence Awards for outstanding contributions in teaching, student success, campus impact and service to the university community.

June 29, 2026 — Cedarville University’s online program is helping students like Zach Erway earn a degree without leaving home, allowing them to stay invested in marriage, work, church and community while growing academically and spiritually.

June 26, 2026 — After separate aviation tragedies changed their lives in 2025, the Maxwell and White families found strength through faith, prayer, and the Cedarville University community, discovering God's comfort and faithfulness through shared grief, recovery, and hope.

June 25, 2026 — High school students from across the country developed entrepreneurial skills and pitched innovative startup ideas during Cedarville University's Entrepreneurship Camp, where the winning team created an app connecting children facing serious illnesses with peers experiencing similar challenges.

June 25, 2026 — Cedarville Theological Seminary's online Master of Theological Studies program is seeing strong demand for its biblical counseling concentration, equipping pastors, ministry leaders and laypeople to provide biblical care, discipleship and counseling while remaining active in their churches and communities.

June 24, 2026 — Cedarville University alumni are leading Christian colleges, seminaries and ministries across the country, reflecting the university’s emphasis on academic excellence, spiritual growth and Christ-centered leadership that prepares graduates to serve with conviction and integrity.

June 23, 2026 — Cedarville University senior Micah Torres turned a LEGO minifigure hobby into Rusty’s Figs, a business generating $50,000 in revenue. Through mentorship, faith and accounting knowledge, he transformed collectible reselling into a platform for entrepreneurship and ministry.

June 23, 2026 — In an AI-conducted interview, Dr. Rob McDole shares how Christians can engage AI with wisdom, discernment, and biblical conviction, emphasizing stewardship, critical thinking, human dignity, and Cedarville’s commitment to preparing students to lead faithfully in a rapidly changing world.

June 23, 2026 — The Hustle House and Entrepreneurs for Christ are cultivating a Christ-centered entrepreneurial community where students pursue business ventures together, thoughtfully engage AI’s opportunities and limitations, and champion biblical leadership, relationships, and human dignity in a changing world.

June 23, 2026 — As AI becomes increasingly embedded in daily life, the ENGAGE framework offers Christians a practical model for faithful stewardship, helping them use technology in ways that honor God, serve others, and cultivate Christlike character.

June 23, 2026 — One year after adopting ChatGPT Edu campuswide, Cedarville University highlights how students, faculty, and staff are using AI to enhance learning, career preparation, innovation, communication, and ministry while applying biblical principles and human-centered discernment.

June 23, 2026 — Cedarville University President Thomas White explains why Cedarville adopted ChatGPT Edu campuswide, arguing that AI literacy is essential for students’ futures while emphasizing biblical principles, human dignity, integrity, stewardship, discernment, and wisdom in navigating technological change.

June 22, 2026 — A two-time cancer survivor and Cedarville graduate, Summer Gray now serves as a 911 dispatcher in Medina, Ohio, using her faith, compassion and personal experience with suffering to help others through moments of crisis.

June 19, 2026 — Cedarville University student Josh Hochstedler shares how faith, personal loss and entrepreneurial ambition have shaped his commitment to serving others, building Christian community and using business as a platform for Kingdom impact.

June 18, 2026 — Two Cedarville University freshmen created GoFish, an AI-powered, swipe-free dating app that emphasizes compatibility and intentional relationships. After a successful campus pilot, the founders plan to relaunch and expand the platform beyond Cedarville in fall 2026.

June 17, 2026 — Cedarville engineering students are designing a gravity-powered water treatment system for Karanda Mission Hospital in Zimbabwe, helping provide cleaner drinking and surgical water by reducing rainy-season sediment that overwhelms the hospital’s current filtration system.

June 16, 2026 — Cedarville University is expanding access to its sport business management program through a new online degree that prepares students for leadership roles in a rapidly growing industry driven by fan engagement, marketing, analytics and event management.

June 16, 2026 — Cedarville freshman Peyton Korte wrote “The Cyclical Cycle,” a Christian Western novel inspired by his father’s perseverance through hardship. The book explores faith, responsibility and spiritual growth in the 1870s American West.