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April 1, 2010

Ignite and Unite for the Dragon Fire Walk April 17

Brush off your winter blues and tap into spring fever during the April 17th Dragon Fire Walk. Thanks to the 33 teams already signed up to help raise vital scholarship dollars for Dragon Athletics. Have you been drafted? If not, you still have time to join a team or start your own team. Consider joining Edna’s Hurricanes! We’d welcome some more members. The walk alone will make you feel good, plus knowing you are contributing to the success of our prized resource—students! And if that isn’t enough, some fabulous prizes can be won by participants. Do you like to travel or eat? Your participation provides a chance to win airline tickets, jewelry or restaurant gift certificates. To date, $75,000 has been raised toward our $150,000 goal. For more information, go online to https://appserv.mnstate.edu/athletics/dragonwalk/ Please participate on behalf of our student athletes. I hope you’ll join me Saturday morning, April 17 at Nemzek to support Dragon Athletes. – President Edna

Athletics
March 1, 2010

MSUM launches Indian Center

A new center at MSUM aims to improve recruitment and retention of American Indian students. MSUM sponsored a grand opening ceremony Wednesday for the American Indian Research and Resource Center in Holmquist Hall. In addition to providing a resource library and a hub for research projects, the center will be a gathering place for students. MSUM has about 100 Native American students, or about 1 percent of the student body, said Donna Brown, assistant vice president of student affairs for diversity and inclusion. Read the full inforum article by Amy Dalrymple at http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/270197/

Employee News
February 11, 2010

Town Hall meetings Feb. 18

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.

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January 19, 2010

MSUM Launches “Educational LEAN” Initiative

At our December Town Hall meetings, I announced the “Educational Lean” concept as an important new initiative for MSUM. Lean will help us succeed in the “new normal” environment at MSUM that resulted from the recent budget cuts. It will help us understand our current environment (“how do we operate today”) and create improved future processes (“how can a process better serve our customers”). At the January 20th Town Hall meetings, I will explain how Lean is one tool within the broader context of organizational change for MSUM. After that discussion, members of our Lean team and the Winona Lean directors will provide more detail on Lean and how we will roll it out at MSUM. Supervisory staff will have attended a half-day session the day before and will have received more detailed information to be shared with their teams. Communication sessions, facilitator selection, training and project selection will follow in the coming weeks. A dedicated Educational Lean website will be set up so that new information can be easily and quickly shared. Click headline to read more of President Edna’s comments about LEAN. The Facilitator Application is at the bottom of the full article on Dragon Digest.

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