The 2018 Frontline Conference will take place May 23-24 at Normandale Community College! The annual statewide staff training and development conference for Minnesota State AFSCME and MAPE employees offers a broad array of professional development sessions, presented by Minnesota State employees and outside speakers. Attendees attend breakout sessions on a wide variety of professional development topics, and networking opportunities are provided throughout […]
President Anne Blackhurst, along with Joyce Ester, president of Normandale Community College; Connie Gores, president of Southwest Minnesota State University; and Barbara McDonald, president of North Hennepin Community College, wrote a commentary featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The commentary is titled, “The Benefits of Gender Balance in a System’s Presidential Offices.”
Kevin Zepper, MFA in the English Department, presented at the Minnesota Writing and English Conference at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minnesota April 5. The theme for this year’s conference was “Writing Cultures.” Zepper’s presentation topic was “Prose Poems as Teaching Resources.” His program encouraged instructors to incorporate their own creative writing examples to generate assignments and prompts for English […]