By ED SCANTLING Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Services and Enrollment Management It is early in the 2018 recruitment cycle, but the Advantage Scholarship for Colorado and Kansas students appears to be working as intended. Applications and visits have increased, and so has overall interest from students in our western and southern border states. Admitted undergraduate students from Colorado are up 66 percent from last year, and admitted undergraduate numbers from Kansas are … [Read more...]
Excitement surrounds UNK unveil of long-awaited STEM building
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqKmzJjxKRo&feature=youtu.be By TODD GOTTULA UNK Communications KEARNEY – Exciting. Remarkable. Impressive. Amazing. Overdue. Those words were said repeatedly by people in attendance Monday when the University of Nebraska at Kearney unveiled its new STEM building that will open in 2019. “This building is going to have some remarkable vistas and venues for learning,” said Chancellor Doug Kristensen. “It is a statement about where UNK is as a campus … [Read more...]
UNK up 7.5 percent in freshmen numbers; Overall head count up to 6,788
KEARNEY – Enrollment is up at University of Nebraska at Kearney over last year – good news for the university and community, officials announced today. The “census” reported on the sixth day of the semester (Aug. 29) to the University of Nebraska Board of Regents was 6,788 students – up from 6,747 last year. Of that number, first-time freshmen were 1,008 – up 70 students over last year. “First-time freshmen are a key measure of enrollment at the undergraduate level, and an increase of … [Read more...]
Community college transfer students focus of new UNK scholarship
Matching funds available for gifts to Loper Advantage Scholarship KEARNEY—Helping students who wish to transfer to the University of Nebraska at Kearney from a Nebraska community college is the focus of a new fundraising program called Loper Advantage that’s been started by UNK and the University of Nebraska Foundation. Transfer students make up 6.5 percent of UNK’s current undergraduate population, a percentage that is expected to continue increasing. While some transfer students may have … [Read more...]
Sheryl Feinstein new College of Education dean
KEARNEY – Sheryl Feinstein is the new dean of the College of Education at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Feinstein currently is chair of the Education Department at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D., where she is tenured and holds the rank of professor. She has been at Augustana College since 1999. Feinstein currently is on a Fulbright scholarship in Moldova, which will delay her start at UNK until May 2015. She is replacing Ed Scantling, who has been dean of education at UNK … [Read more...]
