Summer 2009 The Olivetian
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Heard weekly by more than 100,000 listeners throughout Chicagoland, Shine.FM is the only Christian
hits radio station in the top three markets (Los Angeles, New York and C hicago). ❱ In addition, Shine.FM is streaming online to 71 countries on six continents monthly, and now offers a 24/7 online worship channel featuring praise songs from top Christian artists. ❱ Shine.FM is also partnering with Africa Nazarene University and World Mission Broadcasting to launch Shine-Africa.
Students interested in the performing arts benefit from a thriving theatre program under the leadership of Jerry Cohagan, who gained national
recognition as one-half of the Christian comedy team Hicks & Cohagan and who has authored more than 20 books of dramatic sketches and plays. ❱ Each year, Olivet presents three mainstage productions — a fall play, a winter musical (in collaboration with the Department of Music) and a student-directed spring play — along with various other performance opportunities.
Olivet’s School of Graduate and Continuing Studies is truly without boundaries. Currently, there are 116
separate cohorts meeting in churches, hospitals, schools and businesses throughout the Chicagoland area, plus several online courses. ❱ Olivet also has a master’s in professional counseling program in Hong Kong.
Students interested in pursuing a career in medicine find superior training at Olivet. Of pre-med students who apply to
medical school, an average of 93 percent are accepted (vs. the national acceptance rate of 46.1 percent), and 97 percent of last year’s nursing students passed state boards on their first try (in comparison to an 87 percent pass rate nationally).
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Of the 110 CCCU schools, Olivet is one of only three with an accredited engineering program. Over
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the past two years, engineering students have traveled to an impoverished village in South America to install a water filtration system that they designed.