Student Athletic Training Club successfully hosted annual “Student Symposium”

This past weekend, January 29th & 30th, the MSUM Student Athletic Training Club successfully hosted the Minnesota Athletic Trainer’s Association annual “Student Symposium” education event. One hundred and thirteen students from seven different universities and colleges across the State of MN attended the symposium — an educational event that consisted of a social gathering on Friday evening, along with two keynote speakers […]

SLHS students and faculty involved in American Sign Language Santa service work

MSUM student organization National Student Speech Language Hearing Association/Collegiate Sertoma and MSUM faculty member Bruce Hanson assisted at the Fargo Moorhead Sertoma and the Fargo Quota Club ‘Signing Santa’ event on Sat. Dec. 12 at Blue Stem event center. The event served over 150 children and their families across the region from the Deaf community. Santa communicated with the children […]

Overcoming Obstacles

How one MSUM student defied all odds to graduate By Nate Gilbraith, MSUM Marketing Intern The alarmingly high dropout rate of American Indian students is not a new reality. According to the National Indian Education Association, the national dropout rate for American Indian students is 15 percent. However, Minnesota State University of Moorhead criminal justice major Cera Swiftwater refused to […]

MSUM EXPECTS MORE THAN 425 STUDENTS TO GRADUATE DEC. 17

Weather keeping you from getting to campus to attend commencement? Watch the ceremony live on WDAY’Z Extra. Or, watch it on your computer. MSU Moorhead will award degrees to more than 425 students during its fall commencement program Thursday, Dec. 17 at 1 p.m. in the university’s Nemzek Fieldhouse. The ceremony will be broadcast on WDAY’Z Extra and will include […]

Women in Demand

Constructing their futures BY TRENT ZBICHORSKI Like a lot of women who choose a professional career in construction management, Minnesota State University Moorhead student Elly Lehn grew up around the business. “My dad started as a diesel mechanic at Veit and is now the executive of fleet operations,” said Lehn, a junior in MSUM’s construction management program. “I couldn’t tell […]