18th annual high school quiz bowl is March 6

The 18th annual Bellevue University Invitational Quiz Bowl is Friday, March 6, on the university’s main campus, with the championship round scheduled for 3 p.m. inside the Hitchcock Humanities Center’s Criss Auditorium. This year’s quiz bowl features teams from 24 area high schools.
Schools participating in the 2009 quiz bowl are: Bellevue East, Bellevue West, Bennington, [...]

Student makes difference in community with class project

MADRID, Neb. – Bellevue University student Tabby Cornelius has made a big difference in her tiny western Nebraska community. The Madrid resident, a student in the Logistics Management  accelerated bachelor’s degree completion program, recently organized a fundraiser in this farming community that raised more than $3,000 for a local nursing home.
But Cornelius is quick to [...]

University taps Davis as new AVP of enrollment

Bellevue University has named Matthew Davis its new assistant vice president of enrollment management. Davis previously worked as the university’s director of admissions support and quality assurance. Prior to that, he served 13 years in the U.S. Air Force, including five years as manager of recruiting operations for the upper Midwest.
Davis takes over enrollment operations for the state’s largest [...]

University honored for community service

Bellevue University has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement.
The Corporation for National and Community Service honored Bellevue University primarily for the community-service work done by students enrolled in the Kirkpatrick Signature Series. During the [...]

University organizes student veterans group

Bellevue University has started a chapter of the Student Veterans of America, a national organization founded in 2008 to act as an advocate on behalf of student  veterans at the local, state and national levels.
The Bellevue University chapter, like the national organization, provides peer-to-peer networks for veteran students, including campus activities and pre-professional networking. The university’s [...]

Creagan named Chief Information Officer

Bellevue University has named Dan Creagan its chief information officer, a newly created position at the school. In this role, Creagan will lead the continued integration of the school’s evolving technology infrastructure.
Creagan has been dean of the university’s College of Information Technology for the past four years. Prior to that, he was director of the school’s Center for Information Technology, a pre-cursor [...]