Faculty and Staff

Last month 37 Omaha Public School teachers enrolled in Nebraska Wesleyan University’s Master of Arts in Historical Studies Program.

This marks the first time the graduate program has been offered in Omaha, thanks to the U.S. Department of Education’s “Teaching American History Grant Program.”

John B. Greving of St. Paul, Minnesota, will join Nebraska Wesleyan University as Vice President for Advancement on March 1.

Dr. Rita McGuire has been named the new Director of Nursing at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

Eighteen Nebraska Wesleyan University students who are interested in refugee and immigration issues will spend part of their winter break in Arizona for a service project.

Members of the student organization Global Service Learning will travel to Tucson, Arizona, on January 4 where they will work with the Iskashitaa Refugee Harvesting Network.

During the 2009-2010 fiscal year Nebraska Wesleyan University received over $1,000,000 from corporations, foundations and organizations.

The following is a list of organizations that gave at the Corporate Leadership level ($5,000 or more). If you interact with any of these organizations, please take a moment to thank them for their support of NWU.

A Nebraska Wesleyan University history professor has been awarded a fellowship from the Office of the State Historian/Historical Society of New Mexico Scholars Program.

The halls of Nebraska Wesleyan’s Smith-Curtis Administration Building are once again rat infested. But rather than exterminate, the university will celebrate.

Valentino Achak Deng, the subject of the book What Is the What? will speak about his experience as a Sudanese refugee during an upcoming Nebraska Wesleyan University lecture.

It’s difficult to overstate the magnitude of the recent renovation of Woody Greeno Track at Abel Stadium. Simply put, Nebraska Wesleyan went from having one of the worst outdoor tracks in the conference to having perhaps the best one in the region.

Nebraska Wesleyan's academic and student life departments are focusing more on transformative educational experiences for students.

Rachel Droogsma understands what its like to be in the minority.

Droogsma earned both her master’s degree and Ph.D from Howard University, a historically black university. That experience significantly shaped her personal and professional interests. Now she is teaching intercultural and gender communication classes at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

In her three years as a Nebraska Wesleyan University student Jessica Danson has studied abroad in Mexico, Germany and Estonia. Add to that her service trips to Nicaragua, Malawi, and Guatemala, and a conference in Canada, and you have to assume she’s headed for a career in international affairs.

Janae Riha knows she is living a dream by attending college. The Nebraska Wesleyan junior and her “dream team” are anxious to share their dreams with students at a nearby elementary school.

That’s just one project in the works for the residents of Nebraska Wesleyan’s new theme house — the Dream House.

When students return to Nebraska Wesleyan University on August 23, campus for the most part will look much like it did when they left in May. But summer was anything but quiet.

New theme houses were spruced up, a new outdoor track was built, new administrators got up to speed on their new responsibilities, and professors plotted out new ways to teach their courses.

The Board of Directors of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation has awarded Nebraska Wesleyan University a grant of $100,000.

The funds will be added to the existing William Randolph Hearst Endowed Scholarship Fund at NWU, bringing the contributions to the Hearst Fund to $300,000.

For 11 years, Maxine Fawcett-Yeske has taught Nebraska Wesleyan University students to appreciate music.

Nebraska Wesleyan University senior Lesley Dudden already has an impressive resume.

Nebraska Wesleyan University senior Alexandra Hartmann says her heart lies in many places around the world.

She’s done service work in Malawi, Nicaragua and Guatemala with Nebraska Wesleyan’s Global Service Learning. She’s been to Montreal for the American Academy of Religion Annual Conference. She’s visited friends who are studying in various pockets of the world.

Nebraska Wesleyan University senior Erik Anderson hopes to become a licensed mental health practitioner someday.

Eight Nebraska Wesleyan University students left for Guatemala in late May expecting to spend 10 days building a house for an impoverished family.

“We mixed cement, carried cinder blocks, moved piles of sand, and some of us learned how to lay bricks,” said Meera Bhardwaj, a recent NWU graduate and member of the student organization Global Service Learning.

When Sandra Mathews-Benham travels to Kazakhstan someday, she’ll be able to introduce herself, order a meal, and ask for directions.

“She could survive in Kazakhstan,” said NWU foreign exchange student Gulbanu Ibragimkyzy who has spent the past five months teaching Russian to Mathews-Benham.