Nebraska Wesleyan University President Fred Ohles has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU).
When student Sarah White arrived at Nebraska Wesleyan, she knew she was going to study biology and become a medical doctor. But one class and an eager professor changed her perspective just weeks into her first semester.
Nolan Lott was only a toddler when Ron Howard’s film, Apollo 13, hit the theaters.
When he was old enough to watch and understand the Academy Award-winning film about the aborted 1970 lunar mission, he —like many young boys — dreamed of becoming an astronaut.
Over the past four decades, nearly 800 lab rats have walked, climbed and jumped their way to coveted gold medals at Nebraska Wesleyan University’s annual Xtreme Rat Challenge.
Energetic. Inventive. Committed. That’s how colleagues and students describe music professor John Spilker.
“Students will come, and they will stay when they have taken inventive, demanding and engaging classes like those taught by John Spilker,” wrote Sandra McBride, assistant professor of English.
Andrew Reuss first became interested in Japan as a middle school student. He continued that interest at Nebraska Wesleyan University, meeting Japanese exchange students, enrolling in Japanese classes, participating in Japanese round table discussions, and writing to a Japanese pen pal.
New bachelor’s and master’s degrees, a new forward-thinking general education curriculum, a new sport, new facility updates, new faces. We certainly have a lot to look forward to for the new academic year. Here are some highlights:
Students enrolled in Nebraska Wesleyan University’s adult and graduate programs in Omaha are learning in new classrooms after the university moved to its new location off 140th and Dodge near Boys Town.
Nebraska Wesleyan University said farewell to five retiring professors at commencement ceremonies on May 17. Combined, the five professors’ tenures reach back further than the university’s history.
Nebraska Wesleyan University senior Jamie Reed wants to be a high school English teacher. It’s likely her future students will learn a little about the Japanese language and culture too.
Nebraska Wesleyan University President Fred Ohles joined approximately 100 college presidents on Thursday, January 16 in committing to new and expanded efforts in enrolling and graduating more low-income minority students.
This fall Nguyen stood on the O’Donnell Auditorium stage —the very stage he has performed on as a NWU musician — and took the oath of allegiance alongside 40 others from 17 countries.
While on sabbatical in Vienna, Austria, communication studies professor Karla Jensen continued her own study of German while immersing herself in a new culture.
James Shea, assistant professor of English, will spend the 2013-2014 academic year teaching at Hong Kong Baptist University as a Visiting Fulbright Scholar.
Gebhardt will be among the first group of students to declare a major in Integrative Studies. The new major will give students the opportunity to build their own majors based on courses and experiences.
Three years ago a group of Nebraska Wesleyan University students traveled to Guatemala where they helped the organization Constru Casa build a house for an impoverished family.
