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In observance of the Labor Day holiday, offices at Northeast Community College in Norfolk, Neb., and the Northeast Education Centers in O’Neill, South Sioux City and West Point will close at 3 p.m. today. The offices will reopen at 8 a.m. Tuesday.
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Dana College in Blair, Neb., will host the Banff Mountain Film Festival on Saturday in the Gardner-Hawks Center on campus. Visitors can scale a climbing wall starting at 5 p.m., and films will begin at 7 p.m. Visit www.dana.edu/filmfestival to learn more and to purchase tickets online. Tickets also are available at Backwoods Omaha in Tower Plaza, 305 N. 78th St.
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Peace activist and author Colman McCarthy will present “How To Be an Effective Peacemaker” at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the French Memorial Chapel at Hastings (Neb.) College. McCarthy also will be the featured guest at the 10 a.m. chapel service.
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Anne Waldman — an internationally recognized poet and performer — will open the University of Nebraska at Kearney Reynolds Series. She will read from her works at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the UNK Experimental Theatre on the lower level of the Fine Arts Building. An autograph session and reception will follow. The presentation is free and open to the public.
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Brad and Tracy Moul, former owners of a haunted house in downtown Lincoln, will teach a Halloween prop-builders workshop at Southeast Community College. The workshop will run from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays from Sept. 22 through Oct. 13 in Room 102 of SCC’s Continuing Education Center, 301 S. 68th St. Place, in Lincoln. The workshop is $69, plus additional material fees. To register, visit www.southeast.edu or contact Nancy Holman at 800-828-0072, ext. 2712 or nholman@southeast.edu.
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Creighton University will celebrate its annual Mass of the Holy Spirit at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. John Catholic Church on campus. The Mass is a tradition among Jesuit academic institutions. Classes at 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. will be canceled.
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Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa, will feature “Death by Alcohol: The Sam Spady Story” at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the St. Francis Center in the Stark Student Center on campus. Featured speaker Patricia Spady’s presentation is about the death of her daughter, Samantha, from acute alcohol poisoning at age 19 in 2004.
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Hastings (Neb.) College has several music events planned next week. “Faculty Sampler,” a faculty recital, will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Perkins Auditorium. Todd Green will present “A World of Music” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Perkins.
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North Platte (Neb.) Community College has expanded its Building Construction Program from one year to two to meet the increasing demand for qualified workers.
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“Filling Our Buckets for Kids” will be the theme of the annual early childhood conference for providers, parents and educators at North Platte Community College. The conference will meet from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sept. 19 at the South Campus. The conference will feature two keynote sessions and 16 individual sessions. Early registration fee is $25. Registration at the door is $30. For more information, call Tom Gorman at the Center for Enterprise at 308-535-3714.
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College of St. Mary and its food service vendor, Treat America, have gone Styrofoam-free in the campus dining hall. Diners now must buy a green reusable container for to-go meals in the CSM Campus Store. The campus coffee shop, Christina’s Place, gives a discount for those with their own mug.
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College of St. Mary is participating in the Yellow Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The program allows institutions of higher learning to fund tuition expenses that exceed the highest public in-state tuition rate. The college offers veterans who qualify $8,000 a year for undergraduate study, $2,000 a year for graduate classes and $1,000 a year for doctoral study.
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Sigma Phi Epsilon, a social fraternity at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, recently received its fourth Buchanan Cup for two consecutive years of outstanding chapter excellence. ***
Kevin Smith, who has taught for Southeast Community College’s Continuing Education Division since 1982, has been recognized by the American Institute of Floral Designers as a charter recipient of its new Certified Floral Designer designation.
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The Department of Music and the Department of Art and Design at at Wayne (Neb.) State College have become accredited institutional members of the National Association of Schools of Music and the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, respectively.
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Creighton University has promoted Joe Bezousek to interim director of admissions and Patty Suarez to chairwoman of the admissions and scholarships committee.
— Compiled by Sue Story Truax
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