A portion of the Hastings College Forensics team traveled to the University of Nebraska at Kearney to compete at the I-80 Swing co-hosted by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln on October 8-9. The “small but mighty” Hastings team placed fourth on Saturday, beating UNL, UNK and Creighton University. Hastings placed fifth on Sunday, finishing ahead of

Dr. Laura Marvel-Wunderlich, a Hastings College alumna and former assistant professor of English and editor of the College’s Plainsongs poetry magazine, has been awarded the Nebraska Library Association’s Mari Sandoz Award for significant contribution to the Nebraska Book World. Marvel-Wunderlich was an assistant professor of English at Hastings College from 1990 to 2002, and then

Hastings College will host a two-day educator’s workshop October 30 and 31 that focuses on teaching about the Holocaust. The workshop is presented by the Institute for Holocaust Education and and the Nebraska Holocaust Education Consortium, in cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The event is open to middle school and high school

Hastings College students taking the Argumentation and Debate class this semester are hosting a public Debate Watch for the Wednesday, Oct. 19 Presidential Debate. Debate Watch is a national voter education program conducted by the Commission on Presidential Debates. The Debate Watch will be held on campus in Hazelrigg Student Union rooms A/B. Doors will

Hastings College was recently named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for 2015. The honor is given to colleges and universities nationwide that perform exceptional community service. Hastings College has been named for the eighth consecutive year to the list by the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency that

The Eileen’s Cookie Dash: 5k Race kicked off the 65th Annual Melody Round-Up parade on Homecoming Saturday. Participants got to feel like Grand Marshals of the parade as the race began in downtown Hastings and finished at the Gray Center on the Hastings College campus. Finishers and their times are below:   Bib # Name

The Hastings College forensics team traveled to Manhattan, Kansas, October 2-3 to compete at the BuffCat Swing co-hosted by West Texas A&M University. Hastings College continued to showcase quality work at the second tournament of the year by taking first place on Saturday, beating the University of Nebraska Omaha and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in

The Hastings College Theatre Department opens the 2016-17 season with its production of “The Madwoman of Chaillot” by Jean Giraudoux. The “poetic, comic fable” set in Paris follows the title character as she combats greedy prospectors willing to tear up the city while on the hunt for oil. The show runs October 20-23 in Scott