Resilient Moorhead

MSUM is a founding member of Resilient Moorhead which seeks to advance community resilience, enabling Moorhead to thrive in the future.  Community resilience-building is focused on developing the qualities that enable the community to adapt quickly and thrive amidst uncertainties, stresses, and shocks.  Resilient Moorhead is currently focusing on Social Equity and Environmental Health. MSUM will be hosting the group’s […]

MLK event was a great success

More than 150 students, employees and community members were inspired, entertained, and challenged at MSUM’s Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. event on January 17 in the Center for Arts. This year’s theme focused on Social Responsibility as we think about our shared human collective. MLK stated that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught […]

Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Faculty Learning Community – Jan. 30 – Apr.23

Faculty are welcome to sign up for the upcoming Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Learning Community through the Network for Educational Development (NED) at MinnState. The limit for participation is 30 people, so you are encouraged to sign up soon, and no later than January 27. In this learning community, you’ll have the opportunity to examine how well our current practices align […]

Discipline Specific Learning Communities for Faculty: Accounting, Health & Exercise Science, Economics, Math, and Cross-Discipline

Minnesota State received funding through the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund to support faculty members within disciplines to come together to explore culturally responsive teaching practices. This spring the discipline-specific learning communities are Accounting; Health & Exercise Science; Economics; Math; and Cross-Discipline (prior approval required). All participants will receive the e-book for Zaretta Hammond’s Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain. […]