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Lipscomb by the numbers: Baseball victories
This week’s Lipscomb by the numbers looks back at this past weekend, at Ken Dugan Field. On Friday the 17th, the Lipscomb Bisons baseball team faced off against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish for the first time. The odds that the Bisons would beat the Irish were about twelve percent, some said. Despite the odds, the Bisons went on to beat the Irish, five runs to four. The Bisons played in not just 35 degrees – that felt like about 22 degrees until the sun finally came out about two hours into the game – but they played in snow. There were almost 650 fans in attendance, a great number…
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Lipscomb by the numbers: SEJC victories
This week Lipscomb by the numbers follows four students and one professor almost 600 miles to Thibodaux, Louisiana, last weekend.
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Data narratives: introductions
This semester, the Data and Interactive Journalism class will publish a series exploring a variety of topics through data visualization. The series takes inspiration from the book Dear Data by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec. Dear Data is a visual and narrative record of a year-long project where the authors exchanged postcards weekly. These hand-drawing data visualizations represented different aspects of their lives. We will use a similar approach to create visualizations and reflect on our personal experiences and emotions through data. Our first topic is introductions and connection. It is easy to feel disconnected from others in today’s fast-paced and often impersonal world. But as humans, we have a…
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Lipscomb by the numbers: Beaman Library
This week Lipscomb by the numbers heads over to Beaman Library. The library sees a lot of traffic each semester. Students pick up and check out books for classes, books for research, and books for fun. Herd Media went to the library to see just how many books that is. Last semester, students checked out 1,297 books and read or downloaded 3,295 ebooks. The numbers are already rising this semester, despite being only a month into it. So far this semester, people have checked out 193 books. They’ve also read or downloaded 389 ebooks so far. With access to thousands of print books, ebooks, and articles, the library is the…
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Lipscomb by the numbers: IT
This week’s Lipscomb by the numbers heads over to the IT department. IT helps students with various tech problems, from internet issues to school software malfunctions. They assist students mainly through help desk tickets and phone calls. How many students do they help, though? In the fall 2022 semester, IT answered 1,920 phone calls. So far this semester, they have already answered over 200. Since their new help desk ticketing software went live on June 15th, the IT department has answered 5,753 help desk tickets. The fall 2022 semester saw 3,401 help desk tickets answered. Already this spring semester has seen 941 tickets submitted and answered. And even as of…
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Lipscomb by the numbers: student stats
This week’s Lipscomb by the numbers will be taking a look at Lipscomb’s enrollment and some of the student stats. Lipscomb has quite a few numbers around campus, so we’ll be looking at some of those today. As of the Fall 2022 semester, Lipscomb had 2,941 undergraduate students enrolled and 1,735 graduate students enrolled in Lipscomb’s graduate program. There are students from all over the United States and from 52 countries represented on campus. There are 283 full time faculty members and the student to faculty ratio is 14:1. Those numbers are from Lipscomb’s website, and the following numbers are from some other college stats websites. According to the other…
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Lipscomb by the numbers: Allen Arena attendance
1,681 students and fans crowded into Allen Arena on Thursday, Jan. 19, to watch the Lipscomb Bisons men’s basketball team take down the EKU Colonels. This was the highest-attended home basketball game since late November when the Bisons played the Covenant College Scots on the 21st. Interestingly, the biggest game this season was not the Battle of the Boulevard game in November, which had 3,772 students and fans in attendance, but the Homecoming weekend game against the Campbellsville-Harrodsburg Pioneers, which had 4,789 students and fans at the game. Last night’s game had the fourth-highest attendance of the season, even passing the attendance at the Navy game – although not by…
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Can you dig it?
Archaeology is the study of past humanity. Archaeologists study those things that were used, changed, and created by humans. The thing about finding an ancient artifact like a pyramid or an aged skeleton is that you can’t put a price on it. Every artifact has a story, according to Dr. Thomas Davis. He says his route to this career “was an interest in history…I realized that the thing about archaeology is that archeology doesn’t lie.” Dr. Thomas Davis is an Archaeologist and Professor here at Lipscomb who has traveled the world to find these great artifacts. Dr. Davis has journeyed to many different places in his 40-year archaeologist career, including…
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Compassion fatigue: “eventually the foundation will collapse”
Compassion is the concern for another person’s suffering, but according to Dr. Cayce Watson, we only have so much to give. Dr. Watson has been a social work practitioner for more than 20 years and a professor at Lipscomb University for 12. Watson suspects she may be the first person with a doctorate in Social Work to teach at the University. In the late 90s, she began her work in behavioral health and substance misuse where she provided counseling and eventually found her passion for research. Watson said one of the reasons she loves her field is its ability to counter social issues with advocacy and analysis. Watson like many…
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What archaeology tells us about then and now
Ancient places, letters, hieroglyphs and more. The remains of the past often lead to discoveries of knowledge that are still applicable today. What is the benefit of decoding these often cryptic time capsules, and what is the take away? Dr. Mark Janzen believes it can make us better understand the Christian story. On Friday, October 21st, Lipscomb University held its first-ever Faculty Research Day. Students and faculty alike gathered in the Ezell Center to learn about topics ranging from science, music, and archaeology. The presenters included Dr. Mark Janzen, an Associate Professor of Archaeology and Ancient History at Lipscomb’s Lanier Center for Archaeology. Janzen discusses the benefit of preserving archaeology…
