Professor emerita elected VP of Literacy Research Association

Dr. Doris Walker-Dalhouse, Professor Emerita, College of Education, has been elected VP-elect of the Literacy Research Association (LRA). LRA is a non-profit professional organization of scholars dedicated to promoting research that enriches the knowledge, understanding, and development of lifespan literacies in a multicultural and multilingual world Walker-Dalhouse will assume the presidency of the association in 2022.

MSUM Department of Leadership & Learning publishes open access journal featuring educational research

Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Department of Leadership & Learning has published The Interactive Journal of Global Leadership and Learning (IJGLL), a peer-reviewed open-access journal featuring educational research from the P-12 to postsecondary level. The inaugural issue was released this month and features four articles from recent MSUM doctor of education graduates—Drs. Andrew Burklund, Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson, Anne Marie Leland, and Kathrina O’Connell. […]

Honoring a friend

By Kristin Johnson Bobbi (Jarvis) Mason and Greta (Magnuson) Shawstad had an extraordinary friendship. And it started when the elementary education majors met by chance at MSUM in the 1960s. They became friends when alphabetical seating charts forced them to sit by each other in class; their relationship deepened in the years after graduation even as they lived thousands of […]