Levi Cermak ’18 has viewed life through an entrepreneurial lens for as long as he can remember. As a youngster, he sold candy bars and bookmarks to his friends and watched his grandparents run small businesses. As a Hastings College marketing and business major with a passion for art, he assisted other students in the […]
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Hastings College junior Emma Downing is spending the spring semester studying abroad at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Downing is taking courses in history and anthropology, which pairs well with her history and sociology majors at Hastings. Since her arrival in January, Downing, who is from Colorado Springs, Colorado, said she’s had an amazing
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As Kelly Grefe’s four year journey came to an end when he graduated from Hastings College in 2005, he had no idea where his career would take him. Now, after 15+ years in banking, the 2005 graduate serves as a vice president of business banking at Northwest Bank in Omaha, Nebraska, and was recognized with
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Brian Kloppenborg ’06 credits Hastings College math and computer science professor Dr. Mark Hall for saving his career. After graduating from Hastings College with a major in physics and minors in math and computer science, Kloppenborg entered graduate school with the aspiration of becoming an astrophysicist. After one year of demanding coursework, his first attempt
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Dr. Byron Jensen, Professor of Music, is retiring from Hastings College after 19 years educating and inspiring students in Hastings, and 43 years after he first entered the world of music education. He will continue conducting the Hastings Symphony Orchestra for the coming year. This piece is written by his daughter, Hannah Jensen-Heitmann ‘15. By
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The personal connections students make through Hastings College and the greater Hastings community play a critical role in student success — that’s one of the most important lessons Holly Bosley, a senior from Longmont, Colorado, said she learned throughout her four years at Hastings. As a first-year student, Bosley immediately became involved on campus by
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Learning becomes impactful when students see class concepts implemented in the real world, and such was the case for a Hastings College communication class earlier this year. During the class, students researched, wrote, and illustrated multicultural children’s books, which they read to third graders at Lincoln Elementary in Hastings. The class — COMM333 (Intercultural Communication)
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Two Hastings College students are able to complete internships this year thanks to support from the Dudley-Doerr Society for Business and Economics. The Dudley-Doerr Society is a network of alumni who support the Hastings College Department of Business and Economics with their time and resources, while also honoring legendary business professors Dr. Phil Dudley and
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On a bitterly cold winter’s morning, Matt Darling ’03 points out the wonders of Fontenelle Forest Nature Center: 17 miles of hiking trails winding through 1,400 acres of upland forest and Missouri River wetlands, a tree-top refuge for injured eagles and other raptors, and an aerial adventure park suspended over six acres of forest canopy.
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As she made job changes, moved across the country and took risks, Marissa Sanford said it was important to “be okay with being uncomfortable for a little while” — advice she chose to live by early in her career, and advice that those approaching graduation may want to consider. What Sanford, a 2014 Hastings College
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