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

Four alumni members have joined the Hastings College Foundation Board of Trustees, the Foundation announced today. The Board, which meets on campus semi-annually, provides counsel on fundraising and college initiatives and awards Innovation Grants to creative campus projects. New board members are: Dr. Tammy Heflebower, a 1990 Hastings College graduate, is president of Inspire Consulting,

Works by Shabnam Jannesari, a visiting instructor of art, are featured in the west gallery of the Hastings College Jackson Dinsdale Art Center now through December 3. The show, “Ribbons of Space,” includes paintings and drawings created in the last two years. The JDAC galleries, at 700 E. 12th Street, are free and open to

Hastings College and Bryan College of Health Sciences announced today that they have raised $2.5 million of the $3.1 million needed to build out and equip education facilities for a second location for Bryan’s Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, a workforce development partnership that will help address South Central Nebraska’s nursing shortage. The nursing