The road Fresno Pacific University students need to follow to serve their communities as elementary-school educators is now shorter thanks to the university’s participation in a new statewide program.

Since 2013 the Spark Tank Social Enterprise Pitch Fest has invested more than $100,000 and helped catalyze more than 50 social businesses solving community problems in Fresno.

A revered member of the FPU community, Emeritus Music Faculty Larry Warkentin, D.M.A., 80, died April 5, 2021.