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Through the fall semester, the Hastings College forensics team competed in 18 tournaments through both asynchronous and synchronous formats. During the semester, the team qualified 22 events to the American Forensics Association National Speech Tournament (AFA-NST), which will be held at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in April 2022. Highlights for the fall included competing in-person […]

Hastings College has scheduled several activities as part of its Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration on Monday, January 17, 2022. All events are free and open to the public, but note that masks are required in campus buildings. To facilitate opportunities for students and faculty to participate, classes are running on an abbreviated schedule

Hastings College has announced the Dean’s List for its fall 2021 semester. For the semester, 386 students from 20 states and eight countries were named to the Dean’s List. To be eligible for the Dean’s List, students must achieve a grade point average of 3.7 to 4.0 scale and be registered for full-time coursework. Students

Open Space for the Visual and Performing Arts immersion experience for high school students is expanding for it’s summer 2022 program to include creative writing and speech. The application for Open Space and additional details can be found at hastings.edu/openspace. The immersion programs — one for visual arts and one for performing arts — will

After spending the fall semester building teams and outfitting an esports arena, Hastings College Esports announced it is joining the National eSports Collegiate Conference (NECC). Hastings College Esports and the NECC agreed to partner for the Spring 2022 Split, with the regular season starting in early February. Hastings is the 163rd member throughout North America

Hastings College junior Morgan O’Neill of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was selected to perform in a digital masterclass December 3 with Broadway actress Leslie Kritzer. Teachers of the West Central Region of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) nominated students from their studios, with only seven being selected to participate in the masterclass. The region

The Hastings College Department of Music and Theatre invites the community to “A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols” on Sunday, December 5 at the First Presbyterian Church (621 N. Lincoln Ave.). The service is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all in attendance. Download the 2021 program (.pdf). Preludes played

When dad tells his three rambunctious kids their bedtime stories and gets a little fuzzy on the details, the classics get creative — a prince with a snoring problem spices up “The Princess and The Pea;” in “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” the boy cries “dinosaur” instead; and “Rumplestiltskin” actually helps turn all that pesky

International Education Week is being celebrated on Hastings College’s campus this week to acknowledge the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. Multiple events are designed to encourage and inspire students to travel internationally, share global connections with students and connect the community of Hastings to our global world. International Education Week is a joint

Hastings College was awarded the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum’s Affiliate Excellence Award in Lincoln November 5. The award recognizes excellence in plant collection diversity, maintenance practices and community engagement. Hastings College is known for the high-quality, innovative methods it uses to educate students, and even the campus landscape has been developed as a teaching and learning