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Juniors and seniors are invited to join Tami Reller, chief financial officer for Windows at Microsoft Corporation and the 2012 spring commencement speaker, as she discusses leadership in the workforce, navigating employment after graduation and her experiences working in finance, marketing, strategic planning and technology. Reller is eager to visit with MSUM students to share her experiences and answer questions about preparing for life after MSUM.

3:00 p.m. Thursday, May 10^th, CMU 227 Read the rest of this entry →

A celebration recognizing and honoring Dave Holsen’s life will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 12 at the Moorhead Knights of Columbus, 915 ½ Main Ave., Moorhead. University friends and colleagues are invited to this service.

David ’72 (mass communications, elementary education) passed away in April at Wiltshire, England. He worked at MSUM for 31 years, retiring in December 2009 from the building services department as a management analyst supervisor. He is survived by his wife, Jill,’88 (English) and ’05 (master of liberal arts), who also retired in January 2010 after 31 years at the university, most recently as director of international programs. They have one son, Ben, and a daughter, Katie.

Congratulations to our graduating international students. The International Student Sash Ceremony is Thursday, May 10 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the CMU ballroom. The Sash Ceremony is designed to recognize MSUM’s graduating international students. Each graduate is presented with a sash that represents the flag from their country of citizenship. The graduates will wear their sashes at commencement the following day. 53 international students will be graduating representing 18 countries.

Join us in the celebration!

Dr. David Tack, school of teaching and learning, presented the keynote address “The Importance of Schools in Building Stronger Community Relationships” to the tri-state meeting of regional directors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. His talk incorporated his current research with teachers on the Red Lake reservation on their experiences with incorporating service learning into their elementary classrooms.

Three finalists for the position of Interim Dean of the College of Education and Human Services are scheduled to hold open forums for the MSUM community. The forums are scheduled for April 26 and April 27 and all members of the MSUM community are invited to attend. These forums are an opportunity to learn more about the finalists and to submit comments on their qualifications to the search committee. The Interim Dean will provide academic leadership and coordination for the College of Education and Human Services and will serve on the President’s Cabinet, the Academic Affairs Council, and other University committees as needed. Read the rest of this entry →

Doris Walker-Dalhouse, STL professor emerita, and Victoria Risko, professor emerita at Vanderbilt University and 2012 President of the International Reading Association, wrote a book that was published by Teachers College Press. The title of the book is “Be that Teacher! Breaking the Cycle for Struggling Readers.”

Walker-Dalhouse and Risko will be autographing their book on Thursday, May 1, at the 57^th International Reading Association conference in Chicago, Ill.

Thirty-nine MSUM students attended the first Minnesota Conference of Undergraduate Scholarly and Creative Activity in Mankato on Monday, April 23rd. These represented many of the top projects from MSUM’s Student Academic Conference, as well as top projects from the other Minnesota State Universities. Thank you to all who helped make this trip a success.

The College of Education & Human Services Curriculum Committee will meet on April 30, from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. in Lommen Hall, room 105. The agenda is posted online.

Twenty-four students represented MSUM at the 2012 Arrowhead Model United Nations Conference, hosted by Minnesota State University Mankato in Mankato, Minn., April 12-15. Dr. Andrew Conteh advised the students, and co-presidents Marissa Peterson and Sarah Danielson led.

The team received numerous group and individual awards. Collectively, MSUM received more awards than any other university at the conference.

• The delegation from Israel was awarded Best Delegation; delegates included: Rohan John, Sarah Danielson, Marissa Peterson, and Hannah Salscheider. Read the rest of this entry →

Women’s and Gender Studies, Biology and Community Health faculty and students presented their research at a regional conference. Faculty members: Kandace Creel Falcon, Claudia Murphy, Linda Fuselier, Sara Anderson and Nandita Bezbaruah presented work on interdisciplinary programs. Students: Jessa Dronen, Kathryn Kottenbrock and Deepa Trivedi presented their original WGS research.

Two Health and Physical Education majors, Jeremy Newman and Shana Levin, were awarded MSUM Majors of the Year Awards by the HPE Department.

As Majors of the Year, they are honored at the National Convention at the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) Major of the Year and American Association for Health Educators (AAHE) Award Ceremony and Reception, respectively.

Jeremy Newman was awarded Outstanding Physical Education Major of the Year. Read the rest of this entry →

The minutes for the April 16 meeting of the Education & Human Services College Curriculum Committee are now available online.

MSUM’s Summer Session classes with low enrollment may be cancelled by April 25, so make sure to register today! There are many class offerings for liberal arts and sciences, online and major requirements. If you’re behind on credits and want to catch up, summer is the right time to do it!

If you find that your class is cancelled, please consult with your advisor or review other class offerings to fill the gap.

Summer Session website: http://www.mnstate.edu/summer/

Jan Adair, health and physical education, was given a presidential citation at the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) national convention. Presidential citations are presented to an individual or group who has been responsible for a major contribution to AAHPERD during the president’s term.

Click here to read more: Jan Adair 2012-1

The College of Education and Human Services Curriculum Committee will meet on April 16. The agenda is posted online.

Doris Walker-Dalhouse, professor emerita, STL, and Victoria J. Risko had a chapter entitled Using informative assessments for effective literacy practices, published in E. T. Ortlieb, & E. H. Cheeks (Eds.) Literacy Research, Practice and Evaluation (Vol. 1, pp. 197-219). United Kingdom:Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

The tenth annual Library program to honor 2011 promoted/tenured faculty who chose to participate, will be held today at 12:30 p.m. in the Library, room 208. The honored faculty attending have been asked to give a short statement. All campus personnel are invited to attend this event.

Schedules for the 14th annual Student Academic Conference are available online. A pdf of all abstracts by department is in the “presentation listing” section and a sortable database by room, presenter, department, time, etc. is available in the “presentation schedule” link. There will NOT be printed programs available the day of the conference, so please look at these schedules beforehand to determine the locations and times of the presentations you would like to view (or assign your students to view). Read the rest of this entry →

Please join us for this year’s graduate student lecture on Wednesday, March 28 at 3:00 p.m. in CMU 101. DeeRae Honl graduated in 2011 with a Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology. The title of her lecture is “Factors Affecting Speech-Language Pathologists’ Selection of Vocabulary Items for Users of AAC and Implications for other Professionals.” This lecture is free and open to the public.

Minutes from the March 19 meeting of the Education and Human Services College Curriculum Committee are posted online.