It’s not too late to donate

To date, MSUM employees have donated $50,755.64 – 80.6% of this year’s $63,000 goal – to the 2009-2010 State Employee’s Combined Charities Campaign. (Last year, $61,319.96 was donated by MSUM employees.) This illustrates the generosity of faculty and staff who are able to look beyond their own needs and comforts to ensure that the needs of others can be met. Because of your generosity, people in our communities who find themselves in need will be helped. Victims of violence will be protected, homeless families will be fed and sheltered, children will be nurtured. Click headline to read more.

Dragons Salute Veterans

November 11 is Veterans Day—a day to remember the sacrifice of Americans who served in the armed forces. Dragon veterans can pick up a “Dragon Veteran” pin at the physical plant, the president’s office or the human resources office. Thank you, veterans!

“Pinocchio” showing at MSUM Nov. 21

“I want to be a real boy.” Carved from a piece of pine by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a small Italian village, the puppet Pinocchio dreams of becoming a real boy. Join us for this adventurous piece of physical theatre, complete with masks, clowning and child-like imagination, Saturday, Nov. 21 at 1 p.m. and again at 4 p.m. in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Hansen Theatre. It’s fun for the whole family! For ticket information, please contact the MSUM Box Office at 218.477.2271.

Twin City jazz vocalist Lucia Newell and celebrated recording engineer Steve Wiese will be featured guests at MSUM Music Industry Summit

The third annual MSUM Music Industry Summit is set for November 11-12 at Gaede Theatre in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts on the MSUM campus. The event begins at 7:30 pm on November 11 when Lucia Newell will join jazz faculty Tom Strait, Nick Fryer, Allen Carter, Simon Rowe and Bill Law in concert. An outstanding Tri-College jazz combo will open the show. This concert event will also mark the official launch of MSUM’s student record label “Undeclared Records”. Admission to the show is adults $5/students free. Click headline to learn more.