TIME IS RUNNING OUT….. Make your pledge today!

MSUM’s 2009 Combined Charities Campaign is in the final stages. The goal this year is $63,000, and to date MSUM employees have contributed $20.674.00. Please consider renewing your past pledge or beginning to donate $1.00 (or more) per pay period. The needs of our community are growing, not declining. We can show Clay and Cass counties that MSUM employees are committed to making our community an inviting and compassionate place to live and work. You can tailor your giving to those community organizations that best reflect your values and priorities. Click the headline to read more.

Author Patricia Hampl on campus Oct. 21 & 22

Best-selling author Patricia Hampl will talk on the writer’s craft at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21 and read from her work at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22 both in MSU Moorhead’s King Hall Auditorium 110 as a feature of MSUM’s Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series. It’s free and open to the public. Click headline to read more.

Dragons After Dark collecting gently used clothes

Dragons After Dark is sponsoring a clothing drive the week of Monday, October 26-Friday, October 30. Clean out your closets and bring your gently used clothes to the CMU Main Lounge or contact us at dragonsafterdark@mnstate.edu and we will arrange for a pick-up. All donations will be given to local homeless drop-in shelters. Your old coat could become somebody’s warmth through the winter. Click headline to read more.

World of Change on campus Oct. 26

The 10th annual World of Change conference for regional teachers of the social and natural sciences and mathematics will be held on campus Monday, Oct. 26. It is sponsored by the College of Social and Natural Sciences. Regional teachers from North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota will attend workshops hosted by faculty and staff members from Biosciences, Chemistry, Mathematics, Psychology, and Physics and Astronomy. Click headline to read more.