By Caitlin Wilts, Marketing Intern MSUM head men’s basketball coach and athletic mentor Chad Walthall and his wife Jenni, senior director of development for the MSUM Foundation, have been a part of the Dragon family for about 10 years. While they work in two different sectors of campus, they have a mutual passion for connecting with students and members of […]
Like many dedicated nursing faculty, MSUM’s Alicia Swanson has worked in various areas within the nursing profession. She brings that experience to her role as program coordinator of the university’s new BS in Nursing (BSN) program. After earning her nursing degree, Swanson worked on the children’s hospital float team (NICU, PICU, PEDS) and, for over 11 years, the adult cardiac […]
The Livingston Lord Library is offering some new databases this year. We hope you will find them useful for your courses. New this year: JoVE Science Education videos Statista Harvard Business Publishing ebook Collection Ebook Central (Proquest) Vault Career Intelligence Titles which have been not been renewed include: Books In Print (Bowker) Gale Academic OneFile Select Gale OneFile: Educator’s Reference […]
Planetarium Director, Sara Schultz, completed her doctoral degree this summer from the University of Wyoming. Her degree is in Curriculum & Instruction with a focus on Science Education, in particular, using the planetarium as a teaching tool. Her doctoral research investigated the nature of formative assessment in the form of assessment conversations (i.e. strategic questioning) present in planetarium presentations across […]
By Kristin Johnson Bobbi (Jarvis) Mason and Greta (Magnuson) Shawstad had an extraordinary friendship. And it started when the elementary education majors met by chance at MSUM in the 1960s. They became friends when alphabetical seating charts forced them to sit by each other in class; their relationship deepened in the years after graduation even as they lived thousands of […]