Jewish ERG Meeting

In light of the recent events unfolding in Israel, our Jewish Employee Resource Group is moving up their kickoff gathering to take place tomorrow, Oct 13, from noon – 1:00p.m.  In these challenging times, we believe in the power of coming together, offering a safe place and space to process and support one another. If you are unable to participate […]

Sabbatical Leave Applications 2024-2025

Applications for 2024-2025 sabbatical leaves are due to department chairs by the end of the day October 31. The sabbatical application form is available on the Academic Affairs website at https://www.mnstate.edu/mymsum/academic-affairs/reference/ A faculty member wishing to apply for a sabbatical should forward his/her completed sabbatical application to their department chair. After reviewing the application and consulting with the department, where […]

Call for Halloween One-Shot GMs!

Do you like to run TTRPGs such as Dungeons & Dragons, Sleepaway, Dread, Kids on Bikes, etc.? Want a low-stakes opportunity to run a game for the first time? Never played a TTRPG and looking to try something new? D&D Adventurer’s Guild is looking for volunteer Game Facilitators (GMs, DMs, etc.) like you to run an approximately 3.5 hour one-shot […]

Student Flu Shot Clinic

Essentia Health will hold a Student Flu Shot Clinic on October 18th from 1-3 p.m. in the CMU Room 205. Please bring a copy of your insurance card. You will need to complete a registration form onsite which will be provided upon arrival. Please consider RSVP’ing in DragonCentral on our event page but this is not necessary to attend.

Dr. Caitlin Johnson co-authors an article in the English Journal

Dr. Caitlin Johnson, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, co-authors an article in the English Journal titled, Teaching with Indigenous YA Boarding School Texts: Unsilencing Indigenous Voices. The authors argue for the teaching of Indigenous boarding school texts as part of a broader call for decolonizing pedagogies and disrupting whitestream definitions of literature as a path to unsilencing Indigenous perspectives. The article […]