Upcoming TIAA-CREF Visits

Dan Battcher with TIAA-CREF will be on campus September 16-17 in the CMU. To schedule an individual retirement consultation, please go to http://www.tiaa-cref.org/moc Appointments fill up very quickly so don’t delay! If there are questions, or to be placed on a waiting list, please call Anjali at 800-877-6602 ext 45 3118. Dan will be back on campus October 6-8 and December 1-3.

Work-study Update

If you have work-study positions you need filled for the 2009-2010 academic year, please send the position descriptions to Sumi Lehman at lehman@mnstate.edu to be posted on the dragonjobs website. Students are looking at the website to find work-study jobs.

Faculty News

Paul Harris, History, gave a paper entitlted “An African American Looks at African Customs: Alexander Camphor’s Missionary Story-Sketches and Folk-Lore from Africa” and Raymond Rea, Film Studies, had his film “Straightboy Lessons” screened over the summer at Festival IdentiT.

Women’s Business Seminar Sept. 19

Minnesota State University Moorhead and the Small Business Development Center, along with US Bank, will host a Women’s Business Seminar on Saturday, Sept. 19 from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the university’s Comstock Memorial Union Ballroom. Keynote speaker will be Jill Blashack Strahan, founder and CEO of Tastefully Simple. In 1995 she started the company in a 1,200-square-foot shed with no running water, using a pool table as a packing station.