This past fall, Dr. Michella Marino and students in her Oral History class engaged in a service-learning oral history project to conduct and preserve a series of interviews related to the Vietnam War era. Marino had worked with Hastings College students previously on local oral histories but discovered that once the interviews were completed, nothing […]

Hastings College media students will produce live video stream and complete digital coverage of the 2017 NAIA Division II Women’s Basketball Championship March 8-14 in Sioux City, Iowa. This includes producing the live streams of the semifinals and championship games that will be broadcast March 13 and 14 on ESPN3. For the last 14 years, […]

Eight members of Hastings College’s Alpha Gamma Sigma chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, a national history honorary, presented papers at the honorary’s regional conference in Omaha, Nebraska, March 2-4, with two members receiving awards. A ninth member of the group presented a paper at a session of the Missouri Valley History Conference organized by the […]

Hastings College was honored with 2016 Tree Campus USA® recognition by the Arbor Day Foundation for its commitment to effective urban forest management. In addition to caring for existing trees around campus, a team of volunteers and grounds staff at Hastings College planted 68 new trees comprised of 22 different species in 2016. The largest […]

Hastings College is currently accepting students into a four-year academic honors program, which will launch this fall for incoming first-year students. The program is designed for students who are committed to academic excellence and curiosity, and civic and global engagement. It will focus on providing students with integrative, individualized learning experiences to better prepare them […]

Hastings College will officially open its new Diversity Center with an open house and ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday, Feb. 28 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in room 07 of Daughtery Center (716 N. Turner Avenue). The Diversity Center will serve as a hub for student groups that currently do not currently have a central location to […]

Airickca Gordon-Taylor, a human rights activist and motivational speaker, will speak at Hastings College on Thursday, Feb. 23 at 7:00 p.m. in French Memorial Chapel (800 N. Turner Ave.) as part of the College’s Black History Month Celebration. Gordon-Taylor will deliver an address titled “Your illusions avert inclusion within your surrounding community.” The event is […]

Hastings College will host Chicago-based performance artist and poet Marty McConnell on Thursday, March 2, at 7:00 p.m. at the French Memorial Chapel on Hastings College Campus. The lecture is free and open to the public. McConnell speaks as a part of Women’s History Month with her presentation of “Conjuring Survival: the role of magic […]

The Hastings College Department of Theatre will present Capstones 2017: An Evening of Student Directed and Designed One-Acts, on Thursday, March 9; Friday, March 10, and Saturday, March 11 at 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, March 12 at 2:00 p.m. All performances will be in the Scott Studio Theatre (806 N. Turner Ave.). General admission tickets […]

The Hastings College Food4Thought leadership team accepted the United Way of South Central Nebraska’s Spirit Award during the United Way of South Central Nebraska’s 76th annual meeting and awards ceremony Feb. 14. “We are humbled to be recognized by the United Way for our service because they are truly representative of what it means […]