Mars Hill University began classes for its traditional program on Tuesday, August 21, 2018, and along with new students, the university also welcomed new full-time faculty for the 2018-19 academic year. Sharon Bigger, Visiting Associate Professor of...

"Our world needs you, faculty, students, staff. We need writers. We need newspaper people. We need chemists. We need reporters. Dancers, actors, doctors, teachers. We need coaches." Those words from Mars Hill University President Tony Floyd helped form...

A film about the Shelton Laurel Massacre has placed as a semifinalist for the 2018 Southeastern International Film Festival. The film was produced to accompany "The Civil War in the Southern Highlands: A Human Perspective," an exhibition curated and di...

Brett Johnson, an associate professor of sociology, received the 2018 Gibbs Outstanding Teacher Award at Mars Hill University. Johnson, who joined the Mars Hill faculty in 2012, was recognized for outstanding performance as a classroom teacher, outstan...

John Omachonu will join Mars Hill University as provost, effective August 13, 2018. He will be the chief academic officer for all academic and student development programs and report directly to the president. University President Tony Floyd said, "I b...

Mars Hill University Athletic Director David Riggins announced he will retire in December at the end of the fall semester. David Riggins has served Mars Hill for 32 years. He joined the school as head men's basketball coach in 1986, added the title of ...

The South Atlantic Conference named Mars Hill University baseball player Zac Brown its 2017-18 Man of the Year. Brown, a senior mathematics major from Albemarle, N.C., graduated in May from Mars Hill with a 3.75 GPA. A four-time SAC Commissioner's H...

Exciting changes will occur in the Mars Hill Cross Country and Track and Field programs at Mars Hill University. Mike Owens will continue to serve as our men's and women's Head Coach for Cross Country. Since beginning these two programs in 1992, Coa...

Virginia Hart, the longtime coach and professor who founded the Mars Hill University's women's varsity athletics program, received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine on Tuesday, July 10, 2018. The award, conferred by the Governor of North Carolina, is one...

The current exhibition at the Rural Heritage Museum at Mars Hill University is "A Cabinet of Curiosities: Selections From the Permanent Collection." The exhibit, which will be displayed through December 30, 2018, features late 19th century objects once...