Passport to Workday, Passport #3

 How to Speak Workday, Passport #3 The Passport to Workday will be a key onboarding resource to prepare and inform future Workday users. Workday is the cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tool offering unified finance, procurement, human resources, student, and staff lifecycle management. Its implementation at Minnesota State is one component of the NextGen Project.   All MSUM employees will […]

English Professor Visits Moorhead High School

Kevin Zepper (English) was invited to speak and teach at Moorhead High School on March 26th-27th. Zepper covered the concepts of creativity, creative courage, and pop culture impact. Instructor Aimee Hilger’s students wrote prose and poetry with prompts, connecting their creative writing to McBeth and college research papers. Zepper also discussed expectations of college level writing and student responsibility on […]

March 27 budget open forum recording, slides available

A recording and slides of the March 27 University Planning and Budget Open Forum are available on President Downs’ webpage. You can view the presentation by selecting the link, “News & Notes” and clicking “Budget Open Forum | March 27, 2024” under “Campus Updates.” Employees must be logged into myMSUM to see the link. Watch the budget open forum.March 27 slide […]

Meet MSUM’s Goldwater nominees

Anthropology student nominated for prestigious Goldwater Scholarship | Computer Science Student Cracks the Code for National Scholarship Nomination MSU Moorhead had two 2023-24 Goldwater Scholarship nominees: Judah Nava (Computer Science) and Samantha Peterson (Anthropology). The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Program is a nationally recognized and prestigious program designed to provide support to highly qualified students who are planning on pursuing […]

Academic Progress Checks as a Retention Predictor

In a recently completed study of the effectiveness of academic progress checks, weeks 5 and 10 progress checks were consistent, significant predictors of student retention and student responsiveness was associated with decreased future deficiencies and increased retention rates. Key findings include: Deficiency percentage was a consistent significant predictor of retention after controlling for demographic variables; on average, for every 1 […]