Posted: December 30, 2024 2:00:00 PM CST
As Kearney Public Schools’ orchestra teacher, Jeana Peterson's impact as an educator extends to hundreds of students across multiple schools and grade levels. “When fifth graders start with me, most of the time they’ve never touched an instrument before. They might have played piano, maybe they’ve played recorder, but very, very few of them have ever touched a stringed instrument before,” Peterson said. “I get to watch them progress throughout the year,...
Posted: December 23, 2024 6:00:00 AM CST
“No one ever taught me how to teach Spanish,” said Spanish teacher John Kretlow. That is, until he enrolled in the University of Nebraska at Kearney’s online Spanish Education Master of Arts in Education program. With a Spanish degree from the University of Texas and a teaching certificate from Houston Baptist University, Kretlow is certified to teach Spanish at his technology and business high school, CAST Tech High School in San Antonio, Texas. Still, he felt a...
Posted: December 17, 2024 3:00:00 PM CST
Logan Shaw of Ellis, Kansas, often hears that he’s lucky that his education and connections made at the University of Nebraska at Kearney helped him land a career with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in Grand Island. Shaw earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting from bet36365体育 in May 2023. Now, just a year and a half later, he’s preparing to walk across the stage again – this time to receive his master’s in business administration. With his second...
Posted: December 10, 2024 12:00:00 AM CST
At the College of Business and Technology, the professors are always on the lookout for ways to help their students learn. Classes are exciting places where experiential learning occurs. Students meet with industry leaders inside their classrooms as well as at the companies where they will one day work. Now their academic world has gotten much bigger thanks to the efforts of the College of Business and Technology. In July of 2024, through Coursera Career Academy, many unique courses...
Posted: December 2, 2024 10:05:00 AM CST
Preschool and kindergarten teachers have one of the most important jobs in the world – encouraging the love of learning! They lay the foundation for curiosity, growth, and lifelong learning. The first five years of a child’s life are critical to their development. During this time, 90% of brain development occurs, and children are introduced to structured education through preschool and kindergarten. “It’s so important for the educators of young...
Posted: November 19, 2024 12:00:00 AM CST
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Posted: November 12, 2024 12:00:00 AM CST
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Posted: November 5, 2024 12:00:00 AM CST
Dr. Greg Benson and Dr. Ben Brachle both bring a wealth of experience to the classroom. For Dr. Benson, his real-world experience in the private sector includes his upper-level positions at both Eaton Corporation and Precision Industries. Dr. Brachle’s work spans from his time at Black and Decker to the consultation work he did for the government as well as a multitude of organizations. It’s more than just their combined decades of experience in the area of supply chain...
Posted: October 29, 2024 12:00:00 AM CDT
It’s no surprise that students can receive their Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree at almost any university, but nothing can compare to the unique experience offered to the MBA students at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Led by Dustin Favinger, who also serves as the director of bet36365体育’S College of Business and Technology Career Center, the MBA program is designed to prepare students through a blended program. At bet36365体育, MBA students can enjoy the convenience of...
Posted: October 15, 2024 12:00:00 AM CDT
Students in Dr. Sarah Borchers accounting classes already know how amazing she is. On October 29th, her excellence as an educator will be recognized by the Nebraska’s Society of CPAs when they present her with their Outstanding Accounting Educator Award for 2024. Each year the society chooses someone whose commitment to educating students goes above and beyond. These recipients prepare their students for professional success. For everyone at bet36365体育’s College of Business of...
Posted: October 1, 2024 12:00:00 AM CDT
Mitch Peters, a bet36365体育 lecturer who comes from a long line of Lopers, knows that the school’s Industrial Distribution (ID) program “prepares students for in-demand careers in technical sales and leadership positions across the industrial manufacturing and wholesale distribution industries.” As someone with many years of experience in the industry prior to pursuing teaching, he explains how the university’s ID program has “developed close relationships” with...
Posted: September 26, 2024 2:20:00 PM CDT
University of Nebraska at Kearney’s Assistant Professor and Art Education Graduate Program Chair Dr. Christopher Strickland has mastered the art of teaching innovative online courses. His creative approach to teaching, particularly through dynamic discussion boards and creative assignments, has earned him the 2024 Outstanding Innovation in Online Teaching award. Last year’s winner Dr. Amanda Sladek presented him the award on behalf of the Office of Graduate Studies and...
Posted: September 24, 2024 12:00:00 AM CDT
Eide Bailly is a top 25 CPA firm in the nation. According to Tony Eitzmann, CPA, his firm is grateful for their partnership with the University of Nebraska at Kearney. This didn’t happen overnight though. In fact, you’d need to go back over a decade to find out how the College of Business and Technology became “a terrific feeder” for Eide Bailly. Back then, Eitzmann was at Seim Johnson, which would later be acquired by Eide Bailly, when he was invited to speak to...
Posted: September 17, 2024 12:00:00 AM CDT
Not all new students on the University of Nebraska at Kearney’s campus are freshmen this year. For Sawyer Bumgarner, who is finishing his last two years of college as a transfer student, the road to bet36365体育 wasn’t a traditional path. When he graduated from high school, Bumgarner made the decision to attend Midland University so he could play football. While he admits it was “fun while it lasted,” he can now see how the injury that ended his football career has actually...
Posted: September 10, 2024 12:00:00 AM CDT
A new academic year is starting at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and for Shucheng Ge, Danielle Kaminski, and Yerim Sim, it’s a chance to make a difference. For the business side of the College of Business and Technology, these three new hires will bring expertise, energy, and excitement to the exciting learning environment bet36365体育 is known for. Shucheng Ge, who will be joining the Loper faculty as a professor of management, earned his Ph.D. in Management from Texas Tech...
Posted: September 3, 2024 12:00:00 AM CDT
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Posted: August 11, 2024 2:00:00 PM CDT
Avery Misfeldt became the 1,000th fully online graduate from the University of Nebraska at Kearney’s Master of Science in Biology program during the summer 2024 commencement ceremony. A biology teacher from Blair High School, Misfeldt represented one of the nine fully online 2024 summer graduates from bet36365体育’s biology master’s program, together pushing the total number of online Biology M.S. graduates officially past the 1,000 mark. “I think it's cool to...
Posted: June 24, 2024 2:00:00 PM CDT
“The most personal thing that someone can give you is their story,” University of Nebraska at Kearney’s 2019 online History M.A. alumna Sara Jane Ruggles said. “And in hospice, it's the last thing they're able to give.” For the past two and a half years, Ruggles has worked for Auburn Crest Hospice in Bonners Ferry and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. As the nation’s first public historian working in healthcare, she has helped 55 individuals in...
Posted: June 14, 2024 11:00:00 PM CDT
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Posted: May 15, 2024 3:00:00 PM CDT
“I love science communication,” said upcoming University of Nebraska at Kearney Public Communication M.A. graduate Gwendolynn Folk. She loves it so much that she drove more than 800 miles to bet36365体育 from Idaho State University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in biology and worked as a post-baccalaureate scholar in a socio-urban-hydrology lab. This 12-hour journey was sparked by meeting bet36365体育’s Research Professor of Communication and Biology Dr....
Posted: May 14, 2024 10:00:00 AM CDT
What do you want to do when you grow up? We’ve all been asked this question at one point in our lives. University of Nebraska at Kearney’s Transitional Certification Program student Vincent Smail believes we should be asking a deeper question, “How will you impact your community?” If you would have asked Smail this 14 years ago, as a senior at Lincoln High, he would have been unsure of both of his answers. Now, Smail is back at Lincoln...
Posted: May 5, 2024 12:00:00 PM CDT
Public History Master of Arts student Tatiana Moore is making history at the University of Nebraska at Kearney as the third recipient of the Graduate Student of the Year award. Although a native of Norfolk, Moore considers bet36365体育 home. After graduating in 2020 with a History Education B.A.Ed., she returned to her former high school in Norfolk to teach history. “I loved being in the classroom, but I realized that I wanted to teach history in a different way,”...
Posted: April 23, 2024 12:00:00 AM CDT
Years ago, as a young boy, Ryo Suzuki grew up playing baseball in Tokyo, Japan. If you had asked him back then about his plans for the future, he would have told you he was going to grow up to play in the Major Leagues. It wasn’t until he injured his elbow and shifted his focus away from baseball that he realized he enjoyed learning. This discovery would lead him to the University of Nebraska at Kearney where he would walk on campus as a freshman and eventually become the Senior...
Posted: April 16, 2024 12:00:00 AM CDT
Omar Sanchez is proof that internships are a valuable part of college life. As a College of Business and Technology student who will be graduating with a double emphasis in accounting and finance, he credits his professors, his advisor, and the opportunities he has had through internships with the bright future that awaits him after he turns his tassel. Thanks to the experiential learning that has helped him learn more than just content in his classes, Sanchez realizes he is more than...
Posted: April 9, 2024 12:00:00 AM CDT
There’s a difference between teaching students and simply teaching the content. At the University of Nebraska at Kearney, Dr. Sri Seshadri has been teaching students since 1993. Along with expertise gained from over a decade working in various engineering positions, he brings to the classroom a wealth of knowledge strengthened over the years thanks to his appetite for learning. In addition to his many research studies, featured in peer-reviewed journals such as the Small Business...
Posted: April 2, 2024 12:00:00 AM CDT
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Posted: March 26, 2024 12:00:00 AM CDT
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Posted: March 19, 2024 12:00:00 AM CDT
Dr. Tim Jares, Dean of bet36365体育’s College of Business and Technology, understands the rigor associated with the Chartered Financial Analysis (CFA) Institute Research Challenge. Jares earned a Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the CFA Institute and, at his prior school, took several groups of students to competition. He explains that the challenge, where students present to a group of CFA professionals, is “incredibly rigorous.” It comes as no surprise to him that CBT...
Posted: March 5, 2024 12:00:00 AM CST
At the University of Nebraska at Kearney, Industrial Distribution professors are preparing their students to impact the world. While training students for future careers in technical sales and leadership positions, Dr. Ben Brachle, Alejandro Cahis, and Mitch Peters also make sure to develop relationships with professionals in industrial manufacturing and wholesale distribution industries. These connections make it possible for students to take advantage of internship programs that will...
Posted: February 27, 2024 12:00:00 AM CST
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Posted: February 20, 2024 12:00:00 AM CST
Connecticut native Juliette Eaton has found her home away from home this year as a freshman at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Her time at the Living Learning Community has made all the difference, turning her fears of moving so far from home into an experience better than she could have ever imagined. Eaton explains how she has “made great friendships'' this year thanks to the unique experience of living together which is offered to freshmen students through bet36365体育’s College...
Posted: February 13, 2024 12:00:00 AM CST
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Posted: February 8, 2024 12:00:00 AM CST
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Posted: February 6, 2024 12:00:00 AM CST
When the time came for the Kearney Chamber of Commerce to recognize their Young Professional of the Year, they didn’t have to look far. Alyse Pflanz, who not only teaches at the University of Nebraska at Kearney but also serves as the Director of the Center for Economic Education, was an obvious choice. Honored for the hard work she does not only for her students but for the entire Kearney community, Pflanz shares that going to work every day is “a lot of fun.” As a bet36365体育...
Posted: February 3, 2024 12:00:00 AM CST
As educators, we are constantly exploring innovative tools and strategies to enhance student engagement and foster collaborative learning. One such powerful pedagogical strategy gaining prominence is social annotation. By leveraging the collective intelligence of students, social annotation not only enriches the learning experience but also promotes active participation, critical thinking, and a sense of community in online classrooms. What is Social Annotation? Social annotation is simply...
Posted: January 30, 2024 12:00:00 AM CST
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Posted: January 25, 2024 12:00:00 AM CST
Being awarded a visiting fellowship with Harvard University is like finding a needle in a haystack. Fortunately, Christy Gordon Baty, a 2023 University of Nebraska at Kearney History M.A. alumna and professional needlework historian, knows a thing or two about needles. Since finding that needle in the haystack, Baty and her business partner Erin Harvey Moody were awarded a visiting fellowship to Harvard’s historical Houghton Library, home of...
Posted: January 23, 2024 12:00:00 AM CST
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