The Hastings College Alumni Association presented Seth Denney ‘94 with its 2021 Outstanding Alumni Award during yesterday’s NTV News at 6 p.m. newscast. The show was dedicated to Denney to highlight his career with the station. Denney has served as the evening news anchor at NTV for 22 years. He announced last month he was […]

Hastings College has awarded a new round of grants made available to students from the American Rescue Plan. Grants totaled $1.28 million and came from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund portion of ARP. HEERF III was signed into law on March 11 and provided $39.6 billion in support to institutions of higher education to […]

Hastings College is launching a new financial aid program for students who attend high school in Adams County (Nebraska). The College will award up to 15 Path to HC scholarships to qualifying students who are eligible for a Pell Grant and will enroll as a first-year student beginning in the fall of 2022. “We are […]

Hastings College will receive a $454,000 grant from The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of NEH’s American Rescue Plan (ARP) funding announced today. The grant is part of $87.8 million in ARP funding NEH is awarding to nearly 300 cultural and educational institutions to help them recover from the economic impact of […]

Ten explorers. Four boats. One Grand Canyon. Hastings College Department of Music and Theatre presents “Men on Boats,” the true(ish) history of an 1869 expedition, when a one-armed captain and a crew of insane yet loyal volunteers set out to chart the course of the Colorado River. “Men on Boats,” by Jaclyn Backhaus, will be […]

Dr. Ali Beheler, Hastings College associate professor of philosophy, recently published an article in Philosophy Today, a major international peer-reviewed journal for contemporary philosophy. Her article, titled “The Body a Guiding Thread: New Materialist Conceptions of Agentic Corporeality and Nietzsche’s Emergent Subject,” appeared in the Winter 2021 edition, and was also featured online. In the […]

Walter Scott Jr., former chair of the Hastings College Board of Trustees, passed away Saturday at the age of 90. From 1982 to 1997, Scott served on the Hastings College Board of Trustees and the Hastings College Foundation Board of Directors. He chaired Hastings College’s Board of Trustees from 1988 to 1994. During his tenure […]

Several Hastings College alumni, current students and employees were honored by the Hastings Young Professionals (HYP) by being named 30 Under 30-ish Award recipients during the group’s event in August. The award recognizes top talent and leaders in the Hastings area that are excelling within the workplace. Individuals between the ages of 21 and 40 […]

A $1.45 million estate gift will address Hastings College’s greatest needs while touching the lives of students now and in the future. The bequest was made by the late Jo Ann Klemmer, a longtime friend and supporter of the College and spouse of the late Dr. Herb Klemmer, a 1933 alumnus and psychiatrist at The […]

Dr. Eleanor Reeds, an assistant professor with the Hastings College department of languages and literatures, will give an Invited Faculty Lecture titled “Uncovering a ‘Queer Tongue’ in Dracula” on Wednesday, September 29 at 1:00 p.m. in the French Memorial Chapel (800 N. Turner Ave.). The lecture is free and open to the public, and note […]