From the Women’s Center Desk: Thoughts on Casual Fatphobia during the Pandemic

The recent pandemic has escalated casual fatphobia, particularly online, and the Women’s Center has created a resource to help our community fight back. While memes poke fun at pandemic weight gain, hashtags share damaging diet tips to lose the #quarantine15. While often meant as humor, these trends are fatphobic and damage our collective well-being and mental health. They amount to microaggressions and […]

Schedule rooms in the Student Union

As we did last year, we are allowing student organizations and departments to schedule rooms in the Student Union for the entire academic year. We prefer that all requests be submitted using Virtual EMS. (https://msum.bookitadmin.minnstate.edu/) If you are experiencing difficulties with requesting space using Virtual EMS, or use the fillable PDF form on DragonCentral and email it to cmu@mnstate.edu. Rooms […]

Building Your Skills: Contribution & Influence

While you might think learning about contribution and influence is something you must do in a group, you can practice this from home! Resources from LinkedIn Learning are a great opportunity for students to learn outside of the classroom and it also happens to be home to some of our own-your-own-time Pathway items. Learn from home Leadership Styles: What’s Yours […]

Congratulations, Student Leadership Award Winners!

On Tuesday, April 28, we celebrated with the campus community virtually. We came “together” to recognize student leaders, organizations, and programs from across campus. Even with the shift to distance learning, we had more than 110 nominations! Each of the nominees deserve a round of applause – we have so many wonderful people contributing to MSUM. During the online ceremony, […]