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UNK Phone-a-thon

The Kearney Area Chamber of Commerce supported the NU Foundation and UNK's Admissions Department at their annual Phone-athon in which prospective students whose applications have been accepted are called with Congratulations and Welcome greetings from the community of Kearney read more

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New Years Resolutions: While making them may be like Paving Hell, even the government is encouraging

The celebration of the New Year is perhaps the oldest of all holidays. Our first recorded history of this celebration comes from ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago and included the still common practice of making New Year's resolutions. In fact, you may be one of the...

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Impressions of America

Continued from...This is the second half of the Campus Voices installation that began in the last issue of COLUMNS, dated 9.26.08, written by Sun Wu-an, professor from Shandong University at Weihi. After his visit to campus...

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Impressions of America

Last winter, five faculty and administrators from Shandong University at Weihi came to campus (as part of our continuing exchange with SDUW) to observe how offices at UNK function in a regular American university business environment. They visited with UNK faculty...

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The Sandburg Project: Carl Sandburg’s Poetry and Songs

Today Carl Sandburg is all but forgotten amidst the new technologies and curricula that wrap words through virtual space. His visceral depictions of hard working people, their vital environments in the city and on the land, do not fit easily into contemporary critical...

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Assessment Process Has Seen Changes, Continues to Evolve

Why is "assessment" such a buzz word these days in higher education? Faculty members have always assessed student learning, evaluated that learning and considered methods for improving instruction based on their assessments. However, in the past few years, assessment...

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Cowboy Trail Captures Imagination; User's Guide Due Out in May

"Nebraska’s Cowboy Trail: a User’s Guide" is finished and, man, did I have a blast creating it! During the three years it took to produce, my wife and I logged a couple thousand miles making trips to northern Nebraska towns to interview local historians, search...

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Miner Safety Training is Nebraska Safety Centers Job

While renowned for corn, it surprises many that Nebraska also has a significant mining industry with 201 working mines. In fact, approximately one-fourth of the nation’s gravel pits are located in Nebraska. Mining was a $120 million industry for the state in 2005...

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$martMoney Week Becomes Model For Nebraska

Housed in the College of Business and Technology, the center shares more than 20 years of UNK’s history. Established in 1985 to provide a resource for K-12 teachers wanting to incorporate economics into their curriculum, the general purpose of the center was to...

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Some Talk of Poetry

In a world amiss with red flares, a time where reservoir waters recede from developed land back into the earth and glacial throes make life unbearable for the Polar Bear and Walrus, language and our need to communicate become key in rendering what may inevitably become...

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Reflections on the Relationship of Scholarship to Teaching

John Henry Newman, in his 1854 essay "The Idea of a University," suggests that the primary purpose of the university is education: "a place for the communication and circulation of thought," a place where "one generation forms another." He contended that to discover and...

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