Governor candidates discuss tuition

What are Minnesota’s candidates for governor saying about tuition? You can find out at  www.fan.mnscu.edu/electionguide/tuition.html. Earlier this month, Scott Thiss, chair of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Board of Trustees and student leader, Caitlin Stene, sat down with the three major candidates for governor in individual interviews to discuss the candidates’ views on higher education issues.

Study Abroad in Galapagos, Ecuador

Spring Break 2011 Join Professor Cecilia Mafla-Bustamante, Department of Languages and Cultures, as she leads a Spring Break Tour to the Galapagos Islands, UNESCO World Heritage Site, during Spring Break 2011. The group will leave on Friday, March 11th, and return on Sunday, March 20th. Participants will visit the colonial city center in Quito, also World Heritage site, one of […]

MFA graduate named Communicator of Achievement

Karen Stensrud, Fargo, was recently named the National Federation of Press Women “Communicator of Achievement,” the high­est honor bestowed by the organization, at the national conference in Chicago. The award is present­ed annually to an indi­vidual, nominated by his or her affiliate, in recognition of outstand­ing work in the communications field and contributions to the organization at state or national […]

Professor emeritus James Kaplan publishes book

Dr. James M. Kaplan, professor emeritus at MSUM, has published a book about Birger Sandzén, a Swedish immigrant artist who came to America in 1894. In Birger Sandzén on Art, Music and Transcendence, published by Nordic Studies Press, Kaplan describes a brief cultural Camelot in America when immigrant artists, musicians and authors, nourished by the culture of the Old World, […]