“The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne.” Chaucer, “Parlement of Foules” In the fall of 1995, Moorhead State University offered its first MFA-level courses. Fifteen years later (and a university name change in 2000), seventy-eight people hold the MFA in Creative Writing degree from Minnesota State University Moorhead. We think it’s time to celebrate. The MFA faculty […]
We’ve lost a remarkable alumnus. Thomas Proehl (Class of ’88) passed away Wednesday night. His death by natural causes caught his family and friends totally off guard; only a couple of weeks earlier, he’d undergone a routine physical. On his last night, he had dinner with friends. An hour after he left the restaurant, he was gone at the age of […]
The 2011 Juried Student Exhibition Awards Ceremony will be Thursday, April 7 at 5:30 p.m. in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts gallery. This year the juror was Lisa Elder Melander, an MSUM alum and now a corporate curator in Minneapolis. There were 146 entries for consideration and Melander selected 80 pieces to be included in the exhibit. Thanks to […]
MSUM’s semester long Alumni Mentorship Program is the first program on any of the Tri-College campuses to connect alumni with current students. The program builds mentoring relationships, and mentors and mentees all have one thing in common: They are dragons. Graduate assistant Jennifer Weil developed the program to keep past and present students connected. Mentor Warren Wiese said, “Mentoring is […]
The head of a community college in Iowa has been chosen to lead Ivy Tech Community College’s North Central region. Dr. Thomas G. Coley (’74, political science) will begin his new duties serving Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall and St. Joseph counties June 1. He succeeds Dr. Virginia Calvin, who retired earlier this year. Coley has served since 2005 as president of […]