Posted: November 28, 2023 12:00:00 AM CST
A typical weekly meeting with UNK’s Cyber Club often involves students playing games such as chess, Exploding Kittens, or UNO. Around holidays, they indulge in themed potluck dinners where students might engage in foods that are spooky or ones they are encouraged to be thankful for.
Posted: November 21, 2023 12:00:00 AM CST
The idea was formed to create new drinks “named after the faces you see every day” at UNK. This gave the class the “sense of team” that Hollman was hoping for. Since the decision was made to use Brewed Awakening as part of this class project, Hollman explains that it’s “gotten quite a bit of steam.”
Posted: November 14, 2023 11:50:00 AM CST
Entrepreneurship students from all over the world are encouraged to get involved with Cultivate via the Canvas page that the club is creating to expand their membership. Online students as well as international students will be able to join this organization through Canvas.
Posted: October 24, 2023 12:00:00 AM CDT
The club usually meets in West Center once a month, but it’s not unusual for them to decide to hang out in a more casual atmosphere such as Brewed Awakenings. A typical meeting might consist of discussing club business, listening to a guest speaker who is a local business leader, or taking a tour of one of the many businesses around Kearney.
Posted: October 10, 2023 12:00:00 AM CDT
The AG Business Club meets monthly in West Center with no set time to join. Interested students simply need to show up. Like UNK in general, this club has a relaxed, family atmosphere that is guaranteed to make its members feel welcome.
Posted: October 3, 2023 12:00:00 AM CDT
Colton Stuhr explains that the Supply Chain Management program at UNK, which boasts an impressive 100% employment rate for its graduates, listened to the community to learn what was needed and then proceeded to help students grow into workers who have “all the right tools and skill sets” to fill the many opportunities available to them in Kearney. He shares that being a Champion Sponsor for this program speaks to the value Parker Hannifin places on UNK’s results and what it...
Posted: September 26, 2023 12:00:00 AM CDT
In addition to his speaking engagements at UNK, Birge is also open to the idea of having interns work at Fast Forward. He recently had an extremely qualified intern reach out to him. As the student shared that he wanted to work at Fast Forward because he felt that the company solved real problems, Birge knew he had succeeded at creating “an environment around something more than just money.”
Posted: September 12, 2023 12:00:00 AM CDT
According to Layne Hudson, the current Vice-President of Communications for IDO, “the professors are great” and “very involved with IDO.” Hudson works hard “to make sure ID students are informed about all upcoming events and opportunities” available to them through this club.
Posted: May 2, 2023 12:00:00 AM CDT
For Novacek, who was able to participate in internships as well as work in the industry before graduation, he feels thankful that the opportunities he received at UNK helped him graduate without feeling a ‘huge shock” when he entered “the real world” of business.
Posted: April 11, 2023 12:00:00 AM CDT
Serving four years in the army from 2014 to 2018, Kwiatkowski was stationed in Hawaii and South Korea. He enrolled at UNK in 2018 and then “I did a deployment after my sophomore year when I volunteered to go to Iraq and Kuwait.” Now back at UNK, he serves in the Army Reserves one weekend a month.
Posted: April 4, 2023 10:00:00 AM CDT
As Burkink stated, “The crux of the course is serving as consultants for actual clients.” With the success of this pilot program, it is his desire that this type of experience will become the norm for all UNK students. The vision of a menu of international opportunities for students to choose from as part of their course offerings, no matter their major, is one that Dr. Burkink hopes to leave behind as part of his UNK legacy.
Posted: March 28, 2023 12:00:00 AM CDT
Chloe Dakan, a senior business student who is majoring in marketing, states that making a fake business plan for a fleet of electrical cars for this competition “solidified what (she’s been) doing” in her classes. She stated that her team has “realized that choosing UNK was the best option for us” because they were not afraid to put to use, at this competition, the type of hands-on learning they experience in their college classes.
Posted: March 21, 2023 12:00:00 AM CDT
Three things, Moore says, have led to his success: 1) “not getting outworked by my competitor,” 2) helping others achieve their financial dreams, and 3) learning to “adapt and figure out ways to do this job in an ever-changing world.”
Posted: March 7, 2023 12:00:00 AM CST
Besides joining UNK’s College of Business & Technology Department one semester apart, Borchers Fall 2015 and Yaw Spring 2016, they both spent years working in their industries after college, which allows them to bring earned and learned knowledge to their teaching.
Posted: February 28, 2023 12:00:00 AM CST
In several majors, such as Agribusiness, Construction Management, Cyber Security, Finance, Industrial Distribution, Information Technology & Networking, and Interior & Product Design, there is a 100% placement rate.
Posted: February 21, 2023 12:00:00 AM CST
His advice to students concerning doing an internship is to just do it. “It sounds scary but there is a reason why they are important. They give you experience and provide data about your career field.”
Posted: February 14, 2023 12:00:00 AM CST
This year’s LLC students, who represent a combined total of twelve different business and technology majors, have already met with Dean Jares, attended a session on time management, and worked on upgrading their high school resume to a college resume.
Posted: February 7, 2023 8:15:00 AM CST
Dr. Borden is more than just a veteran professor at UNK. He is a master storyteller who sees educational value in everyday life experiences. His published research examines the effect of storytelling and finds statistically significant evidence that student retention is enhanced in finance courses when storytelling is used, verifying the value of class time spent spinning yarns.
Posted: January 31, 2023 6:00:00 AM CST
Eligible students have the opportunity every year to be considered for one of the many scholarships awarded at UNK. In fact, in the 2022-2023 school year alone, 295 of UNK’s College of Business and Technology students were awarded 510 scholarships worth a combined total of $524,000.
Posted: January 24, 2023 12:00:00 AM CST
Klein starts each day traveling throughout the building where he gets to do what he enjoys the most, interacting with his colleagues. He eventually ends up at UNK’s student-run coffee shop Brewed Awakenings, the first major renovation project he worked on.
