High Point University students, faculty and staff honored the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. by volunteering more than 2,000 hours of service to more than a dozen service projects
High Point University’s Jewish students shared their culture and traditions by celebrating Hanukkah and Shabbat, now known at HPU as Shabbatukkah, on Dec. 1.
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She still can’t get it out of her head.
In Jun2019, Rainer marched in the National Puerto Rican Parade in New York City after winning the scholarship.
It’s the Bible verse from Luke 12:48: To whom much is given, much is required. But she didn’t know those eight words came from the Bible. She spotted them when she was a freshman at High Point University. She walked into the Hayworth Fine Arts Center to attend the Life Skills Seminar taught by HPU President Dr. Nido Qubein and looked up.
Right beyond the entrance were those eight words.
She thinks about those words today because the New Testament verse encapsulates her personal mission since coming to HPU. She’s helped create the university’s first two Latinx student organizations, studied abroad in Chile for HPU’s 2019 Maymester Program, and has become an important voice for diversity and inclusion on campus.
Nearly two years ago, Taylor Caplan stood backstage at Roberts Hall and saw her future in front of her.
As president of the Campus Activities Team (CAT), she spent weeks helping put together the concert after another band canceled during the first week of school. In less than a month, members of CAT and the Office of Student Life worked tirelessly to find JOJO & Two Friends and book them for the Fall Concert, an anticipated event every year at High Point University.
On a Saturday night, after all that work, she stood backstage and saw hundreds of students crowd onto the lawn of Roberts Hall, hold their iPhones in the air and wave them back and forth like lit candles as JOJO & Two Friends played.
Jackson Barnes keeps count of the number of shows he’s been in.
He started at age 4 when he found theater at the Arts Academy in High Point. Now, as a junior at High Point University, he hit 65 shows this spring when landed the starring role of Jesus in the university’s production of “Godspell.”
He started counting because theater creates something that he calls “magical.” Today, he counts his shows because he sees theater as vital to showing what the world can be.
“You never know who is in the audience, what they need or have –– or don’t have,” he says. “You just hope they can take something away from the show, and I believe personally that the stories we tell have to say something. We have to put happiness into the world.”
It did.
As a peer mentor, Francesca Mauceri has helped build bikes for local children every year.
She saw freshmen laughing and engaged. They were masked up and physically distanced, participating in an online trivia game about all things High Point University.
Mauceri created the game. She came up with dozens of questions to create a safe way for new students to connect during the global pandemic.
Each year, HPU’s freshmen build bikes together for local children. The teamwork and the act of serving others sets the tone for their educational journey at HPU. But during the pandemic, they couldn’t gather to build bikes as they had done in the past, so HPU officials asked Mauceri for help. Mauceri got busy.