Letter from the Chancellor

At the core of the University of Nebraska at Kearney’s growing recognition by U.S. News and World Report as a “top 10 Regional Public University in the Midwest” is its commitment to teaching and learning through the scholar-teacher model, where professors bring their intellectual prowess...

Letter from Kenya Taylor

Research, scholarship and creative activity are the foundation of our teaching, providing our students an enhanced university experience that ultimately prepares them to be our future leaders, scientists, educators, health professionals, artists, musicians and business entrepreneurs.    ...

Fuel vs Food

How does a city boy from West Africa’s Ghana find his calling as an agricultural economist in the heart of Nebraska farm country? For Dr. Frank Tenkorang, UNK assistant professor of economics, the path included side trips to rural and city classrooms in Ghana, plus universities in Wyoming and...

Discovering Democracy

Neither Avilés nor his mother could have imagined on those family vacations that he would one day be a UNK associate professor of political science known for his research and expertise on politics in Colombia and throughout Latin America.       “I’m trying...

Virtue & Vengeance

In this closing speech from Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus,” Lucius Andronicus, the new Roman emperor, reflects the way audiences and scholars typically view Tamora, the Goth queen, who has spent the majority of the play pursuing her vendetta against the Andronici family. As UNK English...

Babies Behind Bars

            Susan is like millions of other mothers, in so many ways. But when it is time to tuck Ryan into his crib with the dinosaur sheets and the cream bumper pad, she’ll sleep only inches away on a standard-issue cot. And they’ll...

Making Meaning

“Why do you think he’s on his tippy toes?” asks the clinician, pointing to the page where Little Hamster is trying to mow the lawn for his mother. And then, when she has the boy’s attention again, they turn the page. Little Hamster is setting the table. “What do you think...

Psyched Up!

Traditionally, employees have been valued for “what you know,” termed “human capital,” and/or “who you know,” described as “social capital.”             While those two human resource qualities are...

Getting a Head Start

About the same time, federal requirements for Head Start teachers changed, and she realized that her associate’s degree would not keep her qualified for long. She called Dr. Dawn Mollenkopf, an associate professor in the UNK Department of Teacher Education, looking for a way to earn her bachelor...

Dream Writer

            She began jotting down the rhythms and melodic gestures she heard in her mind. Vertical lines to indicate the direction the notes should take. Elements of space and time, clear in her mind, were transferred to notations on the sheet....