The Women’s Studies Department invites you to celebrate Women’s History Month! Here is a link to our calendar of events: www.mnstate.edu/women Our biggest event will be Jane Curry’s Presentation of “Miz Wizard’s Science Secrets” Tuesday, March 23 at 7:30 p.m. in King Hall 110. Click headline for more information.
A Minnesota State University Moorhead Vacancy Notice was recently posted to our web site (www.mnstate.edu).
PROVOST AND SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
http://www.mnstate.edu/vacancy/1022X-Provost-VP.pdf
Students enrolled in record numbers this spring at the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, resulting in an increase of 14,338 students, or nearly an 8 percent gain, over a year ago, officials said today. MSUM’s enrollment is up .9% or 60 students in headcount from spring 2009 to spring 2010, and up 1.2% or 70 students in full year equivalent from spring 2009 to spring 2010. Click headline for full story and a pdf of the spring enrollment numbers.
The names of three semifinalists for president of North Hennepin Community College in Brooklyn Park have been submitted to James H. McCormick, chancellor of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. The semifinalists are John O’Brien, Patrick Schmitt and Laura Urban. Click headline for more information.
Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson’s experimental documentary, Sveit, will premiere at the Walker Art Center as part of the Women with Vision 2010 International Film Festival. Sveit will screen daily from noon during gallery hours March 2 through March 31. A geneography of memory and place, Sveit was shot in a rural village on the north coast of Iceland. The filmmaker traces her family’s history and emigration from Iceland to the United States, while unpacking memories and stories of her grandfather’s experience as a New American in North Dakota. Meanwhile, Kristjansson negotiates the relationship between landscape, language, mythology and ritual with the help of the local first through fourth grade Icelandic children. Sveit was funded in part by the Bush Foundation, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Fulbright Association, and Skaftfell Menningarmidstod. Click headline for more information.