Nebraska State College Board of Trustees

By TYLER ELLYSON UNK Communications KEARNEY – Doug Kristensen was a first-year state senator when he stepped to the podium to address his colleagues on that fateful day in April 1989. “It’s the only time I remember being nervous in the Legislature,” he admits. Even then, 13 years before he became chancellor of the University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kristensen understood the magnitude of the situation. The Legislature was preparing to debate LB247, a higher … [Read more...] about The fight to become UNK was difficult, but well worth it