Oscar Flores, Economics, presented the paper “The Impact of Participation in Learning Communities on Academic Performance an Retention” at the 43rd meetings of the Eastern Economic Association in New York City. Flores found preliminary evidence that participation in LCs at MSU Moorhead does increase the probability that students would return for the second year.
Please consider encouraging your students to present their research or creative activities at the 19th Student Academic Conference to be held on April 11, 2017. Applications are now open; the deadline for applications is February 26, 2017.
Do you have undergraduate students working on a research project that may be ready to present to Minnesota state legislators in poster form at the capitol on March 2? Minnesota Undergraduate Scholars, a consortium of MN State institutions who support undergraduate research, scholarly works and creative activity is hosting Posters at St. Paul on Thursday, March 2, 2017. MSU Moorhead […]
Open Forum: Thursday, Nov. 17 | 2 p.m. | CMU 205 The first Open Forum to gather initial feedback from the campus community regarding the process of preparing our Higher Learning Commission Reaffirmation criteria documents and for the HLC Site Visit will be at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 17, in CMU 205. Please check the HLC website for information in advance […]
Immigration is a wash on wages, but an overall boost for economy, MSUM professor says, InForum: “Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made immigration a hot topic for the Nov. 8 election with his claims that Mexican illegal immigrants were criminals and ‘rapists’ and that they are stealing Americans’ jobs. But those claims don’t hold up—for the most part—says Oscar Flores, a […]