MSU Moorhead is hosting a Campus Visit Day for prospective students on Saturday, January 23. We anticipate over 125 people to attend the event. Check in begins at 9 a.m., followed by admissions and academic presentations, a student panel, campus tour, lunch and student service exhibits. For details, click the headline.
Join us in Kise Commons on Tuesday, January 26 from 1-2:30 p.m. and pay only $2.00 plus tax. Kise’s delicious meal options include hot entrees, pasta, pizza, fresh vegetables, salad bar, desserts and much more. The variety and quality of Kise’s All You Care to Eat dining facility rivals that of many area restaurants. All students, faculty and staff are invited.
The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Board of Trustees today approved changing the name of St. Cloud Technical College to St. Cloud Technical and Community College. The name change, which takes effect immediately, complements the board’s decision in November to expand the mission of the college to that of a comprehensive technical and community college. The new mission will enable the college to offer the first two years of a liberal arts degree so students can transfer to a four-year institution, such as St. Cloud State University, and continue its various technical and career programs. Click headline to read more.
The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Board of Trustees today appointed Darrel Huish vice chancellor and chief information officer for the system. Huish, 53, has been vice chancellor and chief information officer for Maricopa Community Colleges in Tempe, Ariz., since 2004. From 1996 to 2004, he was assistant vice provost for information technology at Arizona State University. Click headline to read more.
At our December Town Hall meetings, I announced the “Educational Lean” concept as an important new initiative for MSUM. Lean will help us succeed in the “new normal” environment at MSUM that resulted from the recent budget cuts. It will help us understand our current environment (“how do we operate today”) and create improved future processes (“how can a process better serve our customers”). At the January 20th Town Hall meetings, I will explain how Lean is one tool within the broader context of organizational change for MSUM. After that discussion, members of our Lean team and the Winona Lean directors will provide more detail on Lean and how we will roll it out at MSUM. Supervisory staff will have attended a half-day session the day before and will have received more detailed information to be shared with their teams. Communication sessions, facilitator selection, training and project selection will follow in the coming weeks. A dedicated Educational Lean website will be set up so that new information can be easily and quickly shared. Click headline to read more of President Edna’s comments about LEAN. The Facilitator Application is at the bottom of the full article on Dragon Digest.