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McCook Community College students and community members got a taste of what it is like to live in poverty, through a simulation workshop held Monday on campus. Participants role-played the lives of low-income families, living on a limited budget over the course of four 15-minute “weeks.” Participants interacted with human services agencies, grocers, pawnbrokers, bill collectors, police officers and others. The simulation enabled participants to look at poverty from a variety of perspectives and then to discuss the potential for change within the community.

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The annual Chadron State College Powwow has been postponed from Saturday to spring 2010. A new date has not been set.

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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s master of business administration program earned a top spot in BusinessWeek magazine’s new ranking of part-time MBA programs. UNL was ranked fourth nationally and first in the Midlands among part-time MBA programs. Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute, UCLA and the University of California, Berkeley were ranked first through third ahead of UNL.

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The University of Nebraska at Omaha has again been nationally recognized as a military-friendly educational institution. Military Advanced Education magazine listed UNO in its third annual Guide to America’s Military-Friendly Colleges and Universities published in the magazine’s November-December 2009 issue.

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Maureen Gobel received the 2009 Nebraska Community College Association’s Distinguished Alumni Award during a recent ceremony in Lincoln. She retired from Southeast Community College in 2004 after a 42-year career in education. — Compiled by Sue Story Truax

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