“Old Main stands steady as a good heart’s beat

its red brick stout with ivy,

its doors beckoning

to each of the four immense directions”

Since the Fall of 2013, Communications Studies Professor Dr. Karla Jensen has assisted NWU’s core mission of transformative learning through a novel approach to student support. Dr. Jensen recognizes today’s students’ heightened anxiety and uncertainty and seeks to provide students with a toolkit that will enable them to overcome challenges of any size.

At Nebraska Wesleyan University, community members share the essential value of creating an environment where all can belong and thrive. Students and professors on campus actively work toward creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome. Assistant Professor of Spanish Dr.

Nebraska Wesleyan is proud of our commitment to educating leaders who will make the world a better place, and it all starts in the classroom. In Communication Studies Professor Dr. Karla Jensen’s research methods class, students spend a whole semester engaged with a non-profit to study and grow their internal communication processes.

The NWU men’s soccer team is winning on and off the field as the players work to foster a culture of serving the Lincoln community. Twelve current NWU soccer players, almost 50% of the team, are working or volunteering as high school soccer coaches, referees and facilitators of after-school programs.

Studying abroad at NWU has opened me to a world of opportunities. I am fortunate to have been awarded a place on the British Council Study USA program to spend a full academic year studying business in the United States.

As students made last-minute adjustments to their semester-long research projects for the research symposium, crammed for finals and planned life after graduation, Nebraska Wesleyan held its first-annual Philanthropy Week April 19-22 to celebrate all the good our students do on campus, in the Lincoln community and around the world.

When did you last stop—really stop—to admire a tree? Today, the 150th annual celebration of Arbor Day, would be a great day to start.