Aggie Alums Impact Tuesday, June 13, 2023
By Dean Larry Gossen, Ph.D.
Three topics to share this week have a common theme—Aggie alums are making a Big Impact!
New Office Associate
As the Summer Session begins this week, students are greeted by a friendly new face in our welcome center. Taylor Hendrix, a '22 NCTA Agribusiness Management graduate, brings a fresh and authentic perspective as the tour and events coordinator, among other duties. She was raised farming and ranching with her family near Holyoke, Colorado.
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Caring for Each Other Saturday, February 18, 2023
By Dr. Jennifer McConville, Associate Dean
I had the privilege of helping with a fundraiser for one of our own this past week. Mo Khamouna, NCTA’s Library Specialist, has been with NCTA since 1996. Mo’s family experienced a house fire last December. As a member of our community, both Curtis and NCTA, we want to do all we can to help his family.
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Aggies will Glow Big Red Wednesday, February 8, 2023
By Dean Larry Gossen, Ph.D.
NCTA is proud to be the “fifth campus” of the University of Nebraska. We are also proud to be supported by the University of Nebraska Foundation in fundraising efforts. One of those efforts is taking place next week with the “Glow Big Red” campaign.
If you aren’t aware, Glow Big Red is a 24-hour day of giving. From noon to noon, February 15 and 16, we will celebrate NCTA and raise vital funding to ensure that our students receive an exceptional education and have life-changing experiences while in Curtis.
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NCTA Campaign Committee Monday, December 5, 2022
From the beginning, it took determined and visionary citizens to make a school for agricultural excellence in Curtis a reality. This group is the next generation to carry that torch.
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Alumni Achievement to Gary L. Troester Monday, October 31, 2022
Gary Troester will tell you that a small, ag college in Curtis, Nebraska was the first of many steppingstones that led him 25 years later to Southern California.
Farming for seven years at his family’s farm near Hampton, Nebraska farm between two college degrees, two jobs with Cooperative Extension in Nebraska and South Dakota, a stint with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and then an offer to become an ag lender for USDA’s Farm Service Agency came in 2005.
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Aggie Alumni Association salutes Curtis couple Monday, October 31, 2022
Del and Bev Van der Werff are the ultimate Curtis Aggie ambassadors.
Or, referencing their decades-long love of basketball, they could be the community’s own Aggie globetrotters – here in Nebraska and around the world.
Wherever they take educational outreach, young adults are listening. They traveled to India six different times for Del’s teaching duties, and once in Poland.
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Aggies receive alumni scholarships Friday, October 28, 2022
By NCTA NEWS
Sometimes it pays to follow in your parents footsteps.
Just ask Ellie Jarecke of McCook, Trevor Schneider of Cozad, or Konnor Thompson of Lawrence.
Each has a parent (or both parents) who, in the 1990s, paved the way for their children to also become graduates of the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture at Curtis.
The next generation will receive a two-year associate degree from the “Aggie” campus. This time, with the Aggie Class of 2023.
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NCTA-UNK launch 2+2 Agribusiness and Business Pathway Tuesday, October 25, 2022
By NCTA NEWS
The Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture at Curtis and the University of Nebraska at Kearney are partnering to expand statewide career opportunities for agribusiness students and professionals.
The NCTA-UNK 2+2 Agribusiness / Business Pathway is set to launch next fall.
The Pathway will make it easier for students who start their agribusiness education at NCTA in Curtis to then earn a bachelor’s degree online or at the university campus in Kearney, NCTA Dean Larry Gossen said this week.
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Campus-to-campus tailgate for Aggies Tuesday, October 18, 2022
NCTA Dean's Message by Larry Gossen Ph.D.
Aggie alumni from the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in Curtis will be gathering at an ag campus next month.
However, the November 19 East Campus confab will not be at tailgates of pickup trucks lined in a parking lot. Rather, NCTA alumni and friends will meet and mingle inside the spacious animal science complex of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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NCTA application fee waiver begins Friday Monday, September 12, 2022
Nebraska students who apply in the next two weeks for admission to NCTA can request a $45 savings.
Beginning Sept. 16, the fee will be waived for any resident students completing the online, shared application to be an undergraduate next fall (2023-24) at the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture at Curtis or one of the other NU campuses.
First-time freshmen (high school seniors) and transfer students from Nebraska who are applying between Sept. 16 through Sept. 30 are eligible for the “NUforNE” waiver.
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