Vice President of Strategic Enrollment Management candidate Brandon Vinson will be on campus Friday, Dec. 1. His all-campus open forum will be from 2 to 3 p.m. in CMU 105. Campus visits provide an opportunity for faculty, staff and students to meet each of the candidates and offer feedback. President Downs encourages in-person participation, but a Zoom link is available […]
Bioscience Department faculty members, Alison Wallace and Ellen Brisch, collaborated with colleagues from Colorado State University to publish a paper entitled “Boosting student performance with inclusive writing-to-learn assignments through graphic organizers in large enrollment undergraduate biology courses” in the Tips and Tools section of the Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education.
This session will focus on how faculty can effectively conduct course evaluations with supported core tools at MSUM. The supported tools covered include the D2L Survey tool and Microsoft 365 Forms. Participants who attend will be able to: 1) Identify supported tools and processes for implementing course evaluations 2) Choose a method of conducting course evaluations that will best fit […]
Keri DeSutter Nominated for Dragon Pride Recognition We recognize Keri DeSutter, director of teacher education in the School of Teaching and Learning, for her involvement in community programs across Minnesota to bring diverse teacher candidates to campus. Julia Poplin says, ” She takes seriously the task to recruit, train, and support teachers in this time of education crisis. In addition […]
Tanner Weyer, a student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, gave a talk at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, held Nov 2-4 in Boston, MA. His presentation “An Unfortunately Constant Star Field,” was about a search for variable stars in a patch of the sky in which there are no known variable […]