KEARNEY, Neb., March 19 -- The University of Nebraska Kearney issued the following news release:
By HEIDI KNAKE
UNK Communications
MARSHALL, Minn. - When David Jones first arrived at the University of Nebraska at Kearney in the early 1990s, becoming a university president was not part of the plan.
The social studies teacher from Des Moines, Iowa, was simply looking for a graduate program that would invest in him as much as he'd invest in it.
He found that and more at UNK.
Jones earned a master's degree in community counseling while serving as a graduate assistant and hall director for what was then the newly built University Residence South, which has since been demolished. Although that building is gone now, the foundation Jones esta...