The Library has added Readers’ Guide Retrospective to its WilsonWeb subscription. To access directly, use this URL:
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The names of three semifinalists for president of Inver Hills Community College in Inver Grove Heights have been submitted to James H. McCormick, chancellor of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. The semifinalists are Bradley Ebersole, John O’Brien and Tim Wynes. Click headline to read more.
Campus Campaign volunteers have their packet assignments and will be delivering your campaign packet soon! The goal of the 2010 Campus Campaign is $155,000. Last year, our overall participation was 47 percent and we raised more than $158,000. We hope to do even better this year! Participation really is the key to a successful campaign. If you have never participated in the campaign, try giving just a dollar or two each pay period and see how easy it is. Every gift matters and together we can accomplish great things for our students! Click headline to read more and see who the MSUM Campus Campaign volunteers are.
The Rainbow Dragon Center: Serving LGBTQIA has been added to the Campus Campaign: R741 Rainbow Dragon Center. The Rainbow Dragon Center is providing a welcoming and safe space for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, intersex, asexual (LGBTQIA) and allied collective community at MSUM. The center offers safe and supportive surroundings for learning about LGBTQIA issues; plus works toward reducing homophobia, heterosexism and genderism while fostering a campus environment of acceptance and understanding.
Award-winning filmmaker and festival programmer Skizz Cyzyk will be visiting the MSUM Film Studies department this week, Feb. 24-26. Since 1983, Cyzyk has made more than 50 films and videos, many having won awards and screened at festivals all over the world. Cyzyk is also a film festival programmer, serving as both advisory board and jury member for the Atlanta, Sidewalk Moving Picture, Maryland and Slamdance Film Festivals just to name a few. While at MSUM he will be visiting Film Studies classes and conducting workshops. Cyzyk will also be screening a variety of his work on Friday, Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. in King Hall 110. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.