“My aunt wrote to me last autumn and said she wanted to give my novel to her friends for Christmas,” said Paige Erickson, a 2000 Hastings College graduate. “When I admitted that it wouldn’t be ready in time, she said I had better come up with something else.” For someone who has always been interested […]
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When Dr. David B. McCarthy, professor of religion, recommended to his student, Logan Ellis, that he apply for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Samuel Robinson Award—one requirement of which is to memorize and recite the Westminster Shorter Catechism in the PC(USA)’s Book of Confessions—the college senior was game. “It was J-Term,” said Ellis, referring to the opportunity that Hastings
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“We can start in one direction and then it breaks off into a million different ones,” said Rebecca Holcomb, describing what it’s like to work on a research project as a sophomore at Hastings College. She, just like other history majors, is working towards becoming a better historian. A history education and theater education major,
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Brooke Ballou ’15 is finding post-graduate success with the Union Pacific Railroad in Omaha, Nebraska. The 2015 Hastings College graduate from Wilsonville, Nebraska, landed a job as an account representative, managing accounts with chemical shippers. Ballou initially was introduced to Union Pacific at a career fair, and was attracted to the company’s encouragement of employees
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With TeamMates’ founder Dr. Tom Osborne ’59 being a graduate of Hastings College and native of Hastings, Nebraska, it makes sense that Hastings College would be among the first and most active colleges in offering scholarships to TeamMates mentees. In fact, the College offers a noncompetitive Hastings College Teammates Scholarship, valued at $15,000 per year, available
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HC Media students and faculty members have witnessed many changes during their 13 years of travelling to Sioux City, Iowa to broadcast the NAIA DII Women’s National Basketball Championship, but there seems to be one constant each year: the presence of someone many students consider to be their mentor. Chad Power (center below), chair of the
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When Kevin Wright first started attending Hastings College, he was interested in becoming a practicing physician. His freshman year, Wright was able to secure himself an internship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and was introduced to the field of public health. His ideas of becoming a physician began to change. A 2013
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During senior year of college, most students spend time searching for graduate schools or careers. For 2015 Hastings College psychology graduate Jocelyn Delgado, this wasn’t the case. Unsure of what to do, Delgado took her concerns to Dr. Dan Deffenbaugh, professor of religion. He agreed that both graduate school and a career didn’t seem like the right
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Zachary Peterson ’14 is currently attending Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. He majored in collaborative piano and voice performance at HC, where he studied under top-notch professors who encouraged him to audition for grad school.
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The world of professional photography is not easy to enter. Hastings College, however, is the only college or university that offers side-by-side training with the world’s most famous photographers through an exclusive partnership with the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, one of the world’s top educational centers for photographers. Brett Erickson, an associate professor of communication
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