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Voted on by student peers from around the country, University of Nebraska–Lincoln's Laila Doyle was honored as the 2025 National Residence Hall Honorary President of the Year at the student organization’s nationwide conference earlier this year.
The National Residence Hall Honorary is an honorary supported by the leading international organization advocating for the interests and welfare of residence hall students, while also providing opportunities for their personal growth and development.
As president of Nebraska’s chapter of the National Residence Hall Honorary, Doyle has always been proud of the work she and her fellow members do to live up to their core values of service, leadership and recognition.
Winning the NRHH’s national President of the Year award helped Doyle realize this work was creating impacts far beyond what she imagined.
“I felt like I was naturally proud of myself before, but I think getting this award has really made me feel confident in new ways,” Doyle, a senior nutrition and health sciences major, said. “Knowing that my work was getting this much appreciation beyond campus was an eye-opening experience.”
The award honored Doyle’s steady commitment to the Scarlet and Cream chapter of NRHH and the leadership she’s displayed in pushing their programming forward. This work has helped raise funds for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation for childhood cancer research and many other Husker community causes.
“We host a ton of different service events throughout the year. Last year, we worked with Friendship Home to raise funds for their mission. We also worked a lot with Lincoln Parks and Rec on some fun gardening projects,” Doyle said. “NRHH weaves service into everything we do, which has always been why I’ve loved it so much.”
Now in her fourth year with the organization, Doyle has slowly realized how NRHH was changing her personal outlook alongside the impacts it was making around her.
“Finding NRHH has really made me feel confident in my leadership abilities,” she said. “It’s allowed me to implement ideas that I've always wanted to try but just never felt like I had the confidence to organize. NRHH really started to shift my thinking: not only can I come up with good ideas, but I can execute them as well.”
As Doyle prepares to wrap up her Husker career in May, she’s looking forward to building on her momentum and the lessons she’s learned from NRHH.
“Getting this level of recognition helps me know that if I can do this type of work here at Nebraska, then there's really no stopping me from being able to do it anywhere.”
