Happy Thanksgiving from Dean Dr. Larry and Fay Gossen.
Give Thanks Wednesday, November 23, 2022

November 21, 2022

Dean’s Column

Give Thanks—Dr. Larry Gossen

This week is a time to reflect on our blessings and show our gratitude to those around us. I have had the privilege of serving as the Dean of NCTA for 2 ½ years now. What an amazing time it has been. Fay and I have been able to meet so many wonderful people in Curtis and the surrounding communities.

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Impactful Service Wednesday, November 23, 2022

November 14, 2022

 Impactful Service

By Andela Taylor, Recruiting Coordinator

 Last week we celebrated Veterans Day by honoring all service members and their families in many ways. Area schools and the American Legion and Auxiliary members hosted patriotic programs, people posted tributes to their loved one’s service, children write notes of thanks to service members, and the list goes on.

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Fun for NCTA students includes dummy roping, dances, group painting activities, and a variety of intramural sports.
Student Activities - Campus and Community Thursday, November 10, 2022

November 7, 2022

Student Activities – Campus and Community

By NCTA Associate Dean Jennifer McConville

We are well into the fall semester and have been enjoying the fall days the past two weeks.  I took a break one day last week to watch a group of visiting high school students from Perkins County interact with our recruiter on the football field. 

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Aggie Ambassador Maddy Carr, far right, leads a group of prospective students and parents at Discovery Day on campus. (A. Taylor photo)
Fall Recruiting Wrap-up Friday, November 4, 2022

By NCTA Dean Larry Gossen

It’s November and I’m still wondering where September went! I don’t know about you, but time flies way too fast. I mentioned last week in this column that a key person responsible for making sure this column appeared each week, Mary Crawford, was retiring. We again wish Mary all the best.

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Aggie Alumni Association President David Fulton of Pleasanton presents the 2021 Alumni Achievement Award to Gary L. Troester of Santa Maria, California. The two were 1980 graduates in agribusiness management at UNSTA. (NCTA photo)
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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Bev and Del Van der Werff of Curtis were recognized in 2021 with the Alumni Service Award. It was presented by Dan Stehlik, Aggie Alumni Association secretary and awards chair. The couple worked at NCTA for nearly 30 years. (NCTA photo)
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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Konnor Thompson of Lawrence (left) and Trevor Schneider of Cozad are students at the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in Curtis. The pair and Ellie Jarecke of McCook received scholarships from the NCTA Aggie Alumni Association since a parent is an NCTA alumnus. (Photo by Rulon Taylor / NCTA)
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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Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture agribusiness students visit about irrigation costs with their instructor, Mary Rittenhouse, at the NCTA Farm. A 2+2 Pathway in Agribusiness /Business begins with the University of Nebraska at Kearney in the Fall, 2023. (Craig Chandler photo / University Communication and Marketing)
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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NCTA Dean Larry Gossen hosted a reception for 2022 recipients of the FFA American Degree who are students at the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in Curtis. Gossen’s jacket from Cherryvale, Kansas hangs behind him. He is joined by Aggie students, from left, Caitlin Smee, Ness City, Kansas FFA; Aleena Wagner, Bridgeport FFA and Gwen Olberding of Falls City FFA. (Andela Taylor photo / NCTA)
Aggies head to 95th National FFA Convention and Expo Monday, October 24, 2022

Oct. 24, 2022

By NCTA Dean Larry Gossen, Ph.D.

This last week in October has always been one of my favorite weeks of the year. While I love the cool weather and fall colors that are always peaking around this time of year, that’s not what I find so special. This is National FFA Convention week.

As a lifelong FFA member, Agriculture Educator, State FFA Advisor, and National FFA employee before coming to the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture at Curtis, I had attended the national convention every year of my working career.

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Student Success was the theme when NCTA Dean Larry Gossen and Aggie students Maddy Carr and Tanner Ostrander delivered their presentation for the public and the University of Nebraska Board of Regents. Board Chairman Regent Bob Phares welcomed the NCTA remarks (link in the article). (Photo by UNK Communications)
Hear Aggies remarks to NU Board of Regents Monday, October 24, 2022

The Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture at Curtis in September had opportunity to provide a presentation before the University of Nebraska Board of Regents.

NCTA Dean Larry Gossen and students Maddy Carr of North Platte and Tanner Ostrander of Ogallala gave remarks during the Board of Regents meeting held at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

The presentation is available at NCTA to Board of Regents.

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