It was 2:20 a.m. — well beyond Sheryl Rinkol’s bedtime. Sleep wasn’t an option as she listened to ocean waves slap the side of her cruise ship while it floated 2 ½ miles above the Titanic wreckage.
“It was very surreal,” said Rinkol, assistant director of Nebraska Wesleyan University’s Cooper Center. “It made me think about my own mortality.”
First-year students in Gerise Herndon’s English 1 classes likely had some preconceived ideas as to what their lessons would entail. Writing. Revising. More writing. More revising.
Final exams were barely graded when a group of Nebraska Wesleyan University students and their professors boarded a plane to Australia for an academic trip on the country’s history, culture and sports.
Dr. Fred Ohles, President of Nebraska Wesleyan University, awarded degrees to nearly 500 undergraduate and graduate students during Nebraska Wesleyan University’s 123rd annual commencement held Saturday, May 12.
Rebeca Chavez admits she was scared to come to Nebraska four years ago.
She was far from home and had arrived on a campus with nothing but a small suitcase.
It was a different kind of scared, though. Much different than the scared she experienced on the streets of Juarez, Mexico.
