October 2017

Hastings College is one of 40 institutions to receive grant funding from Campus Compact’s Fund for Positive Engagement. The $5,000 grant will go towards providing a trainer and programming to educate the campus on consent and alcohol consumption and abuse. Research conducted on campus helped identify areas where opportunities existed to provide additional education, dialogue

The Hastings College Forensics team continued its streak of success October 14-15 at Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska. The team took third in the sweepstakes on October 14, and had two students place first for the day — Daniel Trevithick of Denver, Colorado, took first in Program Oral Interpretation and Elizabeth Hansen of Fremont, Nebraska,

Bruce Batterson, assistant professor of business administration at Hastings College, shared his passion outside the classroom in an article published in Live Sound International magazine and on the magazine’s ProSoundWeb, an online community for professionals in the audio industry. The self-described mild-mannered professor, who in addition to his business classes manages the pre-law program at

Brett L. Erickson, associate professor of Visual Arts at Hastings College, will address the nature of photography and show his photographs of the American West for the fall 2017 Artist Lecture Series Invited Faculty Lecture. His address, “Cowboys, Legends, and Storage Units: Photographing the New American West,” explores the evolving nature of photography, his own

The Hastings College Foundation has launched a new crowdfunding platform that allows the Foundation to launch campaigns to support specific needs for campus organizations, groups and departments. Known as BroncoBOOST, the microsite is similar to other crowdfunding platforms such as GoFundMe or Kickstarter, where donors have the ability to discover, share and donate to causes

The Hastings College Forensics Team had another successful competition at Kansas State University October 7-8 for the Buffcats Swing hosted by Kansas State University and West Texas A&M University. The Broncos took second in team sweepstakes on the second day of the tournament, finishing strong during the competitive weekend. October 7 results Maggie Rogers, a

Hastings College students participated in the Nebraska State Adjudications of the National Association of Teachers of Singing held at the University of Nebraska Kearney on October 6. Singers from high school through doctoral students competed in their respective divisions.   Of the 10 Hastings College students who participated, four placed in the top three in

The Hastings College Handbell Choir is going on tour this fall, performing nine times in eight locations over a five-day period. The tour begins November 1 in Holdrege, Nebraska; then moves to Imperial, Nebraska; Holyoke, Colorado; Sterling, Colorado; Fort Morgan, Colorado; Boulder, Colorado; North Platte, Nebraska; and concludes with a November 5 performance on campus

Hastings College Theatre is hosting “Climate Change Theatre Action” at 7:00 p.m. October 21 at the Scott Studio Theatre (806 N. Turner Ave.). Climate Change Theatre Action (CCTA) is a worldwide series of readings and performances of short climate change plays presented to coincide with the United Nations COP23 meeting. COP23 is the informal name