Second Life® open house

Faculty interested in using Second Life® are invited to an open house on Friday, December 11 at 11:00 AM CST at the Second Life® – Teaching Island Large Group Facility http://slurl.com/secondlife/MnSCU%20Teaching%20Island/135/176/26/ Please join us as we tour the teaching, learning and research spaces in Second Life®. We will have the virtual world equivalent of cookies and coffee waiting for you (some free objects) and we look forward to discussing how to help you resource.

MnSCU News Watch

A sample of recent news stories: He just can’t give it away, Laboratory Jobs Open As Recession Eases, BSU launches new 360-degree center and more at
https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:29823.2625826240/rid:91ee80cf7055e64fc4949f6adbb5c1b9

APAC meets Dec. 1

The Academic Policy Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet on Tuesday, December 1 at 3:00 p.m. in Owens 201.The agenda can be found at http://www.mnstate.edu/acadaff/APAC/index.htm#agendas

MSUM Guitar Ensemble performs Dec. 3

The MSUM Guitar Ensemble performs on Thursday, Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Center for the Arts Fox Recital Hall. It’s free and open to the public. The High Plains Reader calls it a ‘Best Bet’: “The MSUM guitar ensemble consists of five or six guitar players, a bass player, and a percussionist. Past performances have been refreshingly original, playing seldom heard works.”

Math team places 9th at NCS/MAATeam Contest

The MSUM Mathematics Department is pleased to announce that the team Syntax Error placed 9th out of 92 teams that participated in this year’s NCS/MAA
Team Contest. The team consisted of the MSUM students Tony Batesole, Kathryn Bergee, and Haewoong Jeon, and earned a score of 88 out of a possible 100 points. Five teams (14 students) from MSUM participated in the contest. The Team Contest is an annual competition sponsored by the North Central Section of the Mathematical Association of America consisting of 10 challenging math problems. This year’s contest took place on Saturday morning, November 14 and included teams from 29 different institutions. We congratulate all of our students who gave up three hours on a Saturday morning to participate in the competition.