KEARNEY, Neb., April 22 -- The University of Nebraska Kearney issued the following news release:
By HEIDI KNAKE
UNK Communications
KEARNEY - The moment Silvestre Vargas stepped onto the University of Nebraska at Kearney campus, he heard something unexpected.
His first name.
"It made me feel like they cared about me and it made me feel like I belonged right away," said Vargas, now a sophomore from Lexington.
At UNK, they like to say that's the Power of the Herd, but technically it's the integration of the ecological validation model of student success.
"Ecological validation, or EV, acknowledges that campuses have a responsibility to be student-ready for the scholars who enter higher education systems today," said Jennifer Harvey, sen...