Jane Jeong Trenka, a writer and activist whose controversial views on transnational and transracial adoption challenge the Korean government’s adoption policies, will kickoff the spring semester Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series. She will talk on the writer’s craft at 4 p.m. and read from her work at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 15 in Comstock Memorial Union 101. For more info: http://news.mnstate.edu/?s=Jane+Jeong+Trenka
President Szymanski will host campus Town Hall meetings on Thursday, February 18. The campus will be briefed on: Flood Planning (hopefully, just in case); Budget Planning Update; and Update on Changes. The same information will be presented at each of the following times: 6:30 a.m., Owens Hall 201; 10:30 a.m., Comstock Memorial Union Ballroom; 3:00 p.m., Comstock Memorial Union Ballroom. Everyone on campus is encouraged to attend a meeting convenient with their schedule.
View the 1-26 APAC minutes for M&C at http://www.mnstate.edu/acadaff/APAC/20092010APAC/apacagendasminutes.htm
Linda Lein, an online English instructor at MSUM, will be presenting at the Minnesota Council Teachers of English Conference in Duluth in April. Her workshop topic is “Teaching Writing and Literature Online: When, How, and Why.”
V-Day Minnesota State University Moorhead 2010 will present a benefit production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues Sunday, Feb. 14 at 9 p.m. in the Center for the Arts Hansen Theatre. For tickets, $3 single or $5 couple, contact the MSUM Box Office, 477-2271. More than 40 women from MSUM will participate in the production. Sponsored by MSUM Theatre Arts Department/Blackfriars, the benefit hopes to raise awareness to stop violence against women and girls and raise funds for our beneficiary—the Rape and Abuse Crisis Center of Fargo/Moorhead. Click headline to learn more.