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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 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 […]
...JJ Kahle, who grew up on a farm outside of Kearney, Nebraska, is giving a talk, “Out on the Plains: The Importance of Telling Our Stories”, on Monday, October 9 at 10:00 a.m. in French Memorial Chapel. The talk is free and open to the public. Kahle now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and works as […]
...Hastings College inaugurated it’s 17th President, Dr. Travis Feezell, on September 29, 2017. View a video of the ceremony below or here. To read Dr. Feezell’s inaugural address, click here (.pdf). For photos from inauguration, click here. For photos from Homecoming, click here. For photos of the Athletic Hall of Fame banquet, click here.
...The Hastings College Bronco Forensics team placed second overall in team sweepstakes at their first tournament of the year, the Al Johnson Memorial Swing hosted by Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Over the two-day event, September 23 and 24, the team participated in an incredible 42 events. The Bronco Forensics team also saw large […]
...With Hastings College alumni gathered for Homecoming weekend, the College’s Alumni Association presented Andrew and Abi (Burrows) Vrbas with its Young Alumni Award during halftime of the Hastings College football game at Lloyd Wilson Field on September 30. Andrew, a 2012 graduate, and Abi, a 2013 graduate, founded Pacha Soap Company in 2013. The business, […]
...The Eileen’s Cookie Dash 5k Race kicked off the 66th Annual Melody Round-Up parade in downtown Hastings on Saturday, September 30, 2017. Participants got to feel like Grand Marshals of the parade as the race kicked off the annual Homecoming event and wound its way through eastern Hastings before finishing at the Gray Center on the […]
...The Jackson Dinsdale legacy at Hastings College continues to grow. A little more than a year after the opening of the Jackson Dinsdale Art Center (JDAC) on campus, Kim and Tom Dinsdale have made a gift to the College in honor of their late son, Jackson. The $8.5 million endowment legacy gift from Jackson’s estate […]
...It’s Homecoming week at Hastings College, and student groups and organizations are busy competing for prizes through skits, bed races, a chalk walk and other campus events. The student body has also selected by vote 10 homecoming royalty finalists. To be considered, candidates must be in their junior year. Queen candidate finalists include Anna Flairty […]
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