The Chadron State College SIFE team tied for ninth in the nation at the Students In Free Enterprise National Exposition in Chicago. The event was May 13-15 at the McCormick Place Convention Center. CSC qualified for the national expo by winning its league at the regional competition at Denver in April. A total of 143 SIFE teams qualified for the expo at 16 regional competitions. The University of Arizona won this year’s national event, which featured more than 3,200 students.

• Date: May 24, 2008
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News|Student Clubs & Organizations

Four new inductions have been made to Chadron State College’s chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon, the international honor society that recognizes excellence in economics.

• Date: May 24, 2008
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News|Student Awards & Achievements

A graduate of Chadron State College and Dawes County native, Sharla Dowding, is one of 10 Wyoming teachers who received a 2008 Arch Coal Teacher Achievement Award. Dowding has taught science at Newcastle High School since 1997. This is the eighth year the Arch Coal Awards have been made in Wyoming. They include a $2,500 unrestricted cash prize, a trophy and a classroom plaque. Nominations of the teachers are made by the public. The selections are made by former recipients of the award.

• Date: May 24, 2008
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News

Chadron State College has hired a new assistant professor of education. Dr. Humphrey Amukamara of Phoenix, Ariz., will join the Chadron State College faculty this fall where he will train students to teach special education. Amukamara, 54, was most recently employed as a special education teacher at Phoenix Union High School District in Arizona, which encompasses 220 square miles and has an enrollment of more than 25,000. While there, he has been responsible for coordinating the Emotional Disabi

• Date: May 24, 2008
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News

Chadron State College on Thursday treated Chadron medical professionals to breakfast for their role in the CSC Clinic, the service that allows CSC students to have appointments free of charge. Ann Dockweiler, CSC school nurse, reported that she and other Chadron medical professionals responded to 431 appointments during the spring 2008 semester, bringing the yearly total to 844 visitations. That total is the highest since the program’s inception in the 2004-05 academic year.

• Date: May 23, 2008
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News

The Post Playhouse repertory theatre at Fort Robinson State Park will open this weekend with a pair of special music shows. Featured will be the bluegrass sounds of Chadron’s Bald Mountain Rounders on Saturday, May 24, and the music and humor of the Double-D Wranglers, a yodeling cowboy band from Ainsworth, on Sunday, May 25. Each show begins at 8 p.m.

• Date: May 20, 2008
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News|Theatre

Young and old are being given the opportunity to audition for volunteer parts at the Post Playhouse at Fort Robinson State Park this summer. Auditions for the repertory theatre’s three musicals will be Saturday, May 31, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the playhouse. The plays will be under the direction of Roger Mays, CSC associate professor of theatre.

• Date: May 20, 2008
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News|Theatre

Kylee Stanley of Alliance and Brian Rochelle of Casper, Wyo., were the recipients of the Platinum Eagle Awards during Ivy Day at Chadron State College on Saturday. The Platinum Eagles are presented annually to one male and one female for “distinguished leadership and service.” A student-faculty committee makes the selections. The awards are considered the highest honor that a Chadron State student can receive.

• Date: May 6, 2008
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News|Student Awards & Achievements

Dr. Ron Miller, the professor who has taught most of Chadron State College’s sociology courses the past 32 years, drew from concepts of his discipline while delivering the keynote address at CSC’s commencement ceremony for students receiving master’s and specialist’s degrees Saturday. Miller said that knowledge leads to success, and that it’s important for people to realize organizational structures in order to be successful.

• Date: May 6, 2008
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News|Commencement

A total of 297 students were candidates for degrees during Chadron State College's 2008 spring commencement exercises, Saturday, May 3, in the Armstrong Building and Memorial Hall.

• Date: May 4, 2008
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News|Commencement|Student Awards & Achievements