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Each year, NWU students are challenged to pitch their ideas for how to make NWU stronger at the annual Brugman Pitch Contest. This year, Mady Schoffstall, a senior, and Bruce Archambault, a sophomore, had the winning idea: Wolf Tracks, a mentorship initiative designed to strengthen and connect the NWU community by pairing seniors with first-year students.

First-year students in Nebraska Wesleyan University’s True Crime Casebook: Secrets, Stories and Suspects and Let’s Crack Open a Cold Case courses, part of the Archway Seminar, put their investigative skills to the test during a “Missing Mascot” crime case designed by Matt Flores, assistant professor of education, and Amber Johnson, assistant professor of psychology.

Nebraska Wesleyan University’s choral ensembles will present Christmas with Wesleyan: The Weary World Rejoices on Sunday, December 7, at 7 p.m. at First United Methodist Church near the NWU campus.

The free performance features NWU’s University Choir, Unity Choir, and Gold Standard Singers, joined by the Beatrice High School Choir.

Nebraska Wesleyan University celebrated a key milestone for its nursing students on November 7 with its annual White Coat Ceremony, a tradition that marks their induction into the nursing field.

During the event, the 2025 student cohort received their white coats and affirmed their commitment to compassionate, ethical patient care.

Madison Demke, a sophomore at Nebraska Wesleyan University and a member of NWU’s WISE (Wesleyan Institute for Successful Educators) Honors Program, has a unique opportunity this semester to shadow Lindsey Wilson, who was recognized as the 2025 Nebraska Teacher of the Year by the Nebraska Department of Education.

A Journey Shaped by Loss

This fall, students at Nebraska Wesleyan University enrolled in Lobbying and Policy Advocacy are engaging with a distinctive political system: Nebraska is the only state with a unicameral legislature, rather than the more typical bicameral structure of a house of representatives and a senate, and it has the only nonpartisan legislature in the nation.