Given Minnesota’s higher education woes, it would be understandable if the emotional climate at Minnesota State University Moorhead were bleak. But it’s not, in large part because of the focused, responsive and open leadership of President Edna Szymanski and her administrative team. In an era of budget-cutting bad news, the latest good news for MSUM is that enrollment projections are […]
Minnesota State University Moorhead President Edna Szymanski literally jumped for joy Tuesday. Szymanski was ecstatic to deliver news to faculty and staff during an all-university meeting that enrollment projections are up and fundraising last year was at a record high. Click headline to read more.
A 95-year-old time capsule opened Tuesday provides a link to a part of Minnesota State University Moorhead’s past that was destroyed in a 1930 fire. University archivist Terry Shoptaugh said there was no record of the time capsule in Weld Hall, likely because President Frank Weld’s papers were destroyed in the fire of Old Main. Shoptaugh opened it Tuesday in front of about 200 people and found well-preserved photographs, course catalogs, a diploma and other documents from 1915 and earlier. Click headline to read more.
Bachmeier Pottery, aka MSUM art Professor Brad Bachmeier, was commissioned to create this significant monumental brick relief sculpture work and began researching and developing design ideas for the mural in December of ‘09. The mural imagery had to depict the history, mission, training as well as the local and global execution and performance of the North Dakota National Guard troops […]
Film Studies Professor Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson was presented with the Award of Merit for Documentary Filmmaking at this year’s annual University Film and Video Association Conference. The Award of Merit is the association’s highest honor for artists, and is determined through a formal jury process. The award recognized her recent work, Sveit, a non-fiction video about memory, place and family history that K-Nelson produced in northern Iceland. Click headline to read more.