Curtis alumna returns to NCTA

April 7, 2020

By NCTA News

The campus of the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture has beckoned to Josi Arnold three times in her life.

"My story at NCTA began in 2011, when I started as a Veterinary Technology student,” says the Colorado native.

“When I came to Curtis, I didn’t know anyone. It quickly grew to feel more like home than my hometown!”

Arnold graduated in 2014 in Veterinary Technology Systems with an associate of applied science degree with two options, veterinary assistant and animal husbandry.

“Over those three years as a student, I always had a job in the Student Services Office, assisting in one way or another.”

She did pursue the veterinary medicine field for a year before returning in 2015 to the Vet Tech complex to become the department’s administrative associate and lab assistant.

That position includes overseeing the facilities management students, a position that can be 24-7 to ensure feeding and care for all species in the teaching programs which are housed at the complex, along with student responsibilities for facility care.

However, new career challenges in health care, and then support to the Medicine Valley Elementary School system, were integral opportunities before NCTA again beckoned.

“My love for NCTA pulled me back to campus this February,” Arnold says, this time to become the administrative associate in the Dean's Office.

Day-to-day duties vary as she assists the interim dean and associate dean, as well as faculty, staff, students, and the public.

“My main goals are to support NCTA in any way I can, keep business running smoothly, bring new ideas to the plate, and to make people smile!” she shares.

“NCTA is a very unique college that has a very special place in my heart. I wouldn't be who I am today without it!”