“Prairie Post Office: Enlarging the Common Life in Rural North Dakota” (2017, NDSU Press), by authors Steven Bolduc (Economics) and Amy Phillips (formerly Social Work), and photographer Wayne Gudmundson (Communications, retired), was selected by the Notable Documents Panel of the Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT), a division of the American Library Association, as “one of this year’s outstanding state and local […]
Alumni, current students, faculty members and guests of the MSUM Economics program were among more than 50 people gathered in the Twin Cities on April 25, 2019. Economics alumna Sarah Borgerding (2003) hosted current students and faculty members at HealthPartners in Bloomington, an organization offering both health insurance and care through more than 90 clinics and hospitals serving 1.2 million […]
Wednesday, May 1 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | CB 105 You are invited to our first Curt Gudmundson Economics Undergraduate Student Colloquium on May 1 at 3:30 p.m. in the Center for Business 105. Streaming will be available as well. Students Adam Schutt and Rebecca Weir will present the results of their research. Adam studies whether, controlling for other variables, crimes rates are higher in Sanctuary Cities […]
Sanctuary Cities and their Respective Effect on Crime Rates
Over 100 local high school students attended the 21st annual Great Plains Economics Challenge in the CMU on March 19, 2019. Winners of MSUM’s Challenge will advance to the state competition at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve bank and have the potential to advance all the way to NYC for the national final. The Center for Economic at MSUM hosts the […]