Our Level I Safe Zone Training serves as an introduction to LGBTQ+ identities, experiences, and issues, providing a foundation of knowledge and skills for participants to become qualified Safe Zone Contacts. Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to sign a Safe Zone Contract and receive a Safe Zone Sticker for their office showing that they are a […]
Anton Treuer, a professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University, will deliver two talks at MSU Moorhead as the College of Education and Human Services visiting scholar. His first presentation, titled “Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask,” will be 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25 in Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium. The event will […]
Microaggressions are commonplace, thinly veiled comments or actions that impact individuals based upon facial identity, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, or ability. These comments, whether intentional or accidental, can affect the psychological well-being of people from marginalized communities. This discussion will make historical connections to some microaggressions, explain their impacts, and what we can do to reduce the use of them. […]
In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Monday, October 10, 2022, Linda and Luke Black Elk will take you on a foraging walk at the MSUM Regional Science Center. Linda and Luke specialize in teaching about culturally important plants and their uses as food and medicine. During the walk, they will show us medicinal and edible plants/herbs located around the science center. […]
Selected from a pool of statewide applicants, criminal justice/political science/pre-law student Amanda Schermerhorn has been accepted into the eight-month Minnesota Partners in Policymaking® leadership training. Participants include adults with disabilities and parents raising children with developmental disabilities. Schermerhorn is the mother to four children. Her youngest child, Richard, has autism. He is nonverbal and cognitively delayed. He requires constant supervision […]