Median net farm income dropped 63 percent in 2009 among more than 3,000 Minnesota farms, a new joint report by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system and University of Minnesota Extension shows. Click headline to read more.
Today is the Spring “Poker” Walk for Fitness (and Walk The Dragon), from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. This is a great opportunity to familiarize yourself with the MSUM campus and get some exercise to boot! Prizes will be awarded for the top 3 hands. Click the headline for details.
Works on Paper Guild (WOP) art sale today, April 15th in MacLean student lounge area from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Three Philosophy majors submitted papers and were accepted to present at the 2010 Minnesota Philosophical Undergraduate Student Conference at Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minn., on April 17. The students are Tatiana Gracyk (“The Ethics of Physician-Assisted Suicide”), Daniel Grosz (“Coercion and the Argument from Hiddenness”), and Jennifer Jaszczak (“A Consideration of the Oppression of Women”). There were over 40 submissions, and 31 will be presented with 17 schools being represented at the conference.
Lisa H. Stewart, Psychology/School Psychology, planned and presented a Tier 1 Strand at an RTI conference in Bloomington April 7 & 8. She coordinated a two-day strand focusing on Tier 1 (Core) implementation and evaluation of the Response to Intervention (RTI) model in schools. She presented key sessions on the importance of high quality Tier 1, evaluation of Tier 1 programs, and problem solving at the Tier 1 level as part of the strand. Click headline to read more.