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 […]

Middle and high school students are encouraged to enter the Nebraska Scholastic Writing Awards. The entry deadline for this year is December 15, 2021. Students in grades 7–12 between the ages of 13 and above residing in all 93 counties within the state of Nebraska are eligible. Students are invited to submit original work in […]

The Hastings College Lecture Series Student Symposium committee has announced its upcoming day-long speaker series set for Wednesday, November 3. This year, the student committee members invited speakers who will expand the theme “Climate Change” with topics of social, environmental and political change. The symposium will include both in-person and virtual presenters — all in […]

Six individuals have joined the Hastings College Board of Trustees, and participated fully in a Board meeting that was held on campus last week. During the meeting, Ann Martin, a 1977 Hastings College graduate, was elected to serve as Board chair. Martin joined the Board in 2015. Martin succeeds Roger Doerr, who retired from the […]

The Hastings College chapter of Alpha Chi, the collegiate all-discipline academic honor society, inducted seven students on October 19. The purpose of Alpha Chi is to promote academic excellence and exemplary character among college and university students and to honor those who achieve such distinction. Students accepted are those who place in the top 10 […]