CHADRON – Two students from Chadron State College, Mekenna Fisher of Hershey, Nebraska, and Markus Ramsey of Minden, Nebraska, won championships at the 2023 Collegiate National Leadership Conference of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) in Atlanta June 22-25. Five other CSC students placed in the top 10 at the national event that attracted more than 800 college students and educators from the U.S. for workshops and networking opportunities.

• Date: July 12, 2023
• Author: Tena L. Cook
• Category: Business|Campus News

CHADRON – Fifteen high school students learned more about mental health careers by participating in the Frontier Area Rural Mental-health (FARM) Camp at Chadron State College in June. This year, students and alumni attended from Chadron, Gordon, Rushville, Hemingford, Bayard, Grant, Valentine, and Lodgepole.

• Date: July 12, 2023
• Author: Tena L. Cook
• Category: Campus News|Psychological Sciences

CHADRON – A wide range of attendees, including professional writers, retirees, casual writers, faculty from several colleges, CSC students, and more than a half dozen Western Colorado University students attended the annual Story Catcher Writing Workshop and Festival June 6-9 at Custer State Park hosted by the Sandoz Society. Faculty members represented a range of indigenous cultures.

• Date: July 10, 2023
• Author: Tena L. Cook
• Category: Campus News|English|Sandoz Society

CHADRON – A report released this summer from Project Strive at Chadron State College shows 12 years of positive trends for three indicators of student success. The factors are persistence or retention, good standing or a GPA above 2.0, and graduation rate.

• Date: July 6, 2023
• Author: Tena L. Cook
• Category: Campus News|Project Strive|Student Awards & Achievements

CHADRON – At its June 15 meeting in Lincoln, the Nebraska State College System Board of Trustees approved a 3.2 percent tuition increase for the 2023-24 school year.

• Date: June 29, 2023
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News|Nebraska State College System

Former Chadron State College President Janie Park died Tuesday in Billings, Montana. She was 76. A memorial service for close family members will be scheduled at a later date.

• Date: June 28, 2023
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News

Austen Stephens has been named the Dean of Student Affairs at Chadron State College incoming President Ron K. Patterson announced Monday.

• Date: June 26, 2023
• Author: Alex Helmbrecht
• Category: Campus Announcements|Campus News

CHADRON – In April, Chadron State College student Corey Griffin of Omaha won the Best Undergraduate Presentation in Geoscience at the Nebraska Academy of Sciences (NAS) conference for his Analysis of Know Your Well Data on NUREP Data to Understand Changes in Groundwater Contamination. Griffin is a double major in environmental geoscience and studio art. NUREP was the 1980 Nebraska-South Dakota Uranium Resource Evaluation Project conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy.

• Date: June 21, 2023
• Author: Tena L. Cook
• Category: Campus News|Physical and Life Sciences

CHADRON – At least in what might be called modern times, Gary Bieganski of Chadron has set a record. He served on the Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State College System for 16 years, longer than any of the 15 other trustees from western Nebraska since the 1950s.

• Date: June 2, 2023
• Author: Con Marshall
• Category: Campus News

CHADRON – The Mari Sandoz Center has announced the opening of an art show including a variety of still life, abstract, portrait, and landscape pastel drawings by the late Marilyn Belschner. Celebrating Color and Light: The Art of Marilyn Belschner opened May 22 and will close Sept. 6. The public is invited to a reception Tuesday from 4 to 7 p.m.

• Date: May 30, 2023
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News