WALKtober Same Idea NEW Rules

Get your WALK ON with the WALKtober challenge sponsored by the Hendrix Health Center Wellness Educators during the month of October. Walking 10,000 steps a day will burn approximately an extra 2,700 calories per week. Walking helps achieve good health and weight loss. Click link to read more.

Nepal Yatra Oct. 3

The MSUM Nepali Students Association (NSA) is pleased to invite you to our biggest event, Nepal Yatra 2009, held October 3 from 4-9 pm in the CMU Ballroom. The theme of the event this year is (PANAS: A Glimpse of Festivals). Click link to read more.

Recent Deaths

Bernard Gill, 1980 Head Librarian Emeritus, passed away September 25, 2009, at age 88 in the Hillsboro Medical Center Nursing Home. The memorial service will be held Tuesday, September 29 at 3:00 p.m. at the Gill-Hovde Family Farm, near Hillsboro. http://www.mnstate.edu/acadaff/ http://www.mnstate.edu/acadaff/

Learner-Centered Teaching Monday

Three faculty members will share their thinking about ideas contained in Maryellen Weimer’s Jossey-Bass publication, “Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice” on Monday, Sept. 28 from 11:30 am-12:30 pm in CMU 203. Presenters Mary Dosch, School for Teaching and Learning; Kyja Kristjansson- Nelson, Film Studies; and Steve Bolduc, Economics, have been trying her ideas in their classrooms and will report on their findings.