News Releases
October 2007
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President Barden to Retire in Summer of 2008
Author talks on teaching in the urban classroom
MSUM fall enrollment: 7,491
Sandersons named accounting educators of the year
Comedy Central's Loni Love on stage
New Rivers Press launches four new books
Snakes Alive! program 11 a.m. Oct. 11
"24 SONGS" in Weld Hall Oct. 11-13
Poet featured in McGrath Series
Symphony on stage
Grad student deans lecture
MSUM hosts orchestra festival for 800 area h.s. students
Minnesota State University Moorhead |
PRESIDENT BARDEN TO RETIRE IN SUMMER OF 2008
“Now that I am 65 years old, Carolyn and I have decided we are closing in on the time in our lives to start a new adventure. Though mature in years, we are blessed with good health. Thus we look forward to new beginnings, pursuing family history, traveling, exercising, and continued public service. We especially look forward to more time for enjoyment of the experiences of our three children and their respective spouses, each engaged in successful professional careers, and of our five young grandchildren…In short, this is the right time for Carolyn and me to make this change.”
In his announcement today, President Barden cited the successful re-accreditation visit by the Higher Learning Commission in March of this year: “Our highly competent faculty, staff, and student self-study members diligently prepared the campus for review. MSUM received a strong affirmation of the quality of its academic, student service, and facility programs.”
President Barden noted “with appreciation the leadership of District 9 legislators, led by Senator Keith Langseth, and the support of the Minnesota Legislature and Governor in providing for MSUM’s improvements. I believe the confidence in this University, and in the people of this region, shown by the state leaders is not only well-placed but also well-earned, by all of us…MSUM’s heritage is to serve the people and the societal needs, of our place…Public higher education is truly a great public benefit, to Minnesota and to our country.”
He was appointed the ninth President of Minnesota State University Moorhead on July 1,
1994. Prior to that, he had served as the University’s Vice President for Academic Affairs for five years. President Barden came to MSUM from the University of Wyoming, where he began in 1971 as a faculty member in the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and was subsequently appointed to administrative positions.
He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of North Dakota and his masters and doctoral degrees in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Case Western University and directed research as a scholar of enzyme chemistry and surfactant solutions.
He has been an active contributor and leader in professional organizations in higher education, including service as a consultant, evaluator, and team member for the North Central Association. He serves on the Leadership Council of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system and the Board of Directors for the Tri-College University. He is a member of Rotary International, the Lutheran Church, the American Chemical Society and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
President Barden made his retirement announcement in the same location that he accepted his presidential appointment—the Mass Comm Forum.
At 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Nov. 6…..
CHICAGO TEACHER, AUTHOR TALKS ABOUT EDUCATION IN THE URBAN CLASSROOM
Gregory Michie, author of “Holler If you Hear Me” and “See You When We Get There,” both award-winning books about teaching in the urban classroom, will talk about his books and his experience as a teacher at 8:30 a.m. and again at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6 in MSU Moorhead’s student union ballroom.
Free and open to the public, it’s a visiting scholar lecture sponsored by the university’s College of Education and Human Services.
Michie is an assistant professor of education at Illinois State University where he works with student teachers in Chicago public schools. He taught for nine years in Chicago and received that city’s annual Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching. For the past six years he’s worked as a teacher educator, preparing undergraduates and career-changers for work in urban classrooms.
Both his books have received critical praise. His latest, “City Kids, City Teachers for the 21st Century,” a collaborative effort, will be published later this year.
MSUM ENROLLMENT: 7,491
BASED ON 30TH DAY COUNT
Fall semester enrollment at Minnesota State University Moorhead sits at 7,491 students, up a fraction of a percent from last fall’s total of 7,442, according to preliminary figures released on the 30th day of classes.
MSUM Registrar Jayne Washburn said the 30th day count is the most significant snapshot of enrollment the university tallies before releasing final semester numbers because most students have competed registering by then.
Based on those numbers, MSUM has 7,052 undergraduate (up about a half percent) and 439 graduate students (up about 11 percent) enrolled this semester.
Overall, new entering freshmen total 1,223 this fall, up 13 percent from last fall’s total of 1,077 freshmen.
New transfer students number 637, down 5 percent from last year’s 670.
The total number of credits taken by students, however, is down about one percent.
GEORGE, MARLANE SANDERSON
NAMED ACCOUTING EDUCATORS
OF THE YEAR BY N.D. CPA SOCIETY
The husband and wife team of George and Marlane Sanderson have been selected as North Dakota’s Outstanding Accounting Educators of the Year by the North Dakota Society of Certified Public Accountants.
The award recognizes excellence and innovation in teaching along with continuing service to students.
George has taught at MSUM for over 30 years, including two separate stints as the accounting department chairperson. Among some of his recognitions is the MSUM Academic Affairs Excellence Award for Service and the Midwest AAA chapter award for Creative Contribution to Accounting. Students have consistently nominated him for the Distinguished Faculty Award and he has served on several NDSCPA committees.
Last spring Marlane retired from MSUM after 24 years of teaching. During that time, she has served as the accounting department internship coordinator and the MBA program coordinator. She served on several university committees and received the Award for Excellence in Service to the University. She also significantly modified the fundamentals in accounting courses to incorporate accounting software, taking the class from the old school paper, pen method of accounting, and adapted it to current technology and to meet the needs of employers.
Past MSUM recipients of the award include Carol Dobitz and Mary Bader.
COMEDY CENTRAL’S LONI LOVE
ON STAGE HERE OCT. 22
Comedy Central comedian Loni Love is on stage at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 22 in MSU Moorhead’s student union ballroom, a free public event sponsored by the university’s Campus Activities Board.
A Detroit native, Love has been working the comedy scene for nine years. A former engineer by day and comic at night, she got her first break when she stood in line for five hours at an open call for the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival. She beat out 600 comics to earn a spot for the festival. She was also awarded the Jury Prize for best stand up at the 2003 US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen and voted one of Variety's 2003 “10 Comics to Watch.”
She’s a regular on Comedy Central and has also appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Hollywood Squares and The Best Damn Sports Show.
NEW RIVERS PRESS KICKS OFF
TWO-DAY LITERARY FESTIVAL
Four authors whose books are being released this fall by New Rivers Press will present a panel discussion on their new work at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24 at Barnes & Nobel in Fargo, kicking off a two-day literary festival sponsored by the Minnesota State University Moorhead publishing house.
New Rivers Press is a not for profit literary small press founded in 1968 by C.W. "Bill" Truesdale that has published over 300 books. Now headquartered at MSUM, its dual mission is to publish enduring literature and provide academic learning opportunities for students.
The four new authors whose books will be released by NRP are:
* John Chattin's "Cars go Fast" (short stories). The author was born in Seattle and spent his youth in Kentucky. He’s a graduate of Western Kentucky University’s journalism program and the creative writing program at The New School in New York City. He’s done some reporting and painting, and his fair share of retail bookselling, java slinging, and paper pushing. He now lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Marijo,. His first car was a ’64 Ford Falcon Futura.
* Marianne Hermann's "Signaling for Rescue" (short stories). The recipient of a Bush Artist Fellowship and a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship, she grew up in Winnetka, Ill., and is a graduate of Georgetown University. She received her master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and has taught art history in Florence, Italy. She lives in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, with her husband and two daughters.
* Diane Jarvenpa's "The Tender, Wild Things" (poetry). She’s a Minnesota native whose grandparents all emigrated from Finland. Her first book, “Divining the Landscape,” was published by New Rivers Press in 1996. She has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and, under the name Diane Jarvi, is a versatile performer of folk and world music heard throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States.
* Holaday Mason's "Towards the Forrest” (poetry). She’s the author of two chapbooks: “Light Spilling from its Own Cup” (Inevitable Press, 1999) and “Interlude” (Far Star Fire Press, 2001). She lives in Venice, Calif., and sometimes serves as artist-in-residence for the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, for which she co-edited the anthology Echo 681.
The schedule of events:
Wednesday, Oct. 24:
4 p.m. A panel discussion on publishing at Barnes and Noble with authors and New Rivers Press editors.
8 p.m. Fiction reading by Chattin and Herrmann in MSUM’s student union, room 101.
Thursday, Oct. 25
4 p.m. Poetry reading by Mason at MSUM’s student union, room 101.
8 p.m. A poetry reading and music by Javenpa in MSUM’s Roland Dille Center for the Arts Fox Recital Hall.
SLITHER UP TO ‘SNAKES ALIVE’
PROGRAM 11 A.M. THURSDAY
Tom Kessenich, a native Wisconsin herpetologist who’s been involved with reptiles for over 35 years, will present an educational program called “Snakes Alive” at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 11 in MSUM’s student union. It’s a free program hosted by the university’s Campus Activities Board.
Kessenich was head zookeeper at the renowned Serpent Safari Reptile Zoo and also maintains a private collection.
He says reptiles are a misunderstood group in the animal kingdom. Snakes, in particular, instill fear in most people. “The fear of snakes is learned behavior and has been exaggerated by such things as misrepresentation and myths,” he says. “My goals are to help educate the public and provide services so man and animal can live in harmony. Reptiles are a good indicator on the condition of the environment. When the environment is no longer suitable for them, it will no longer be suitable for us; for all parts of nature are interconnected.”
MUSIC THEATRE F-M STAGES
“24 SONGS” AT MSUM OCT. 11-13
Music Theatre Fargo-Moorhead (MTFM) announces its upcoming production of “24 Songs” to be presented October 11, 12 & 13 at 7:30 pm. in MSUM’s Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium.
“24 Song”s is a new musical revue featuring 24 of Broadway’s best songs. As with MTFM’s prior edition of “24 Songs,” audiences can expect to hear a mix of music from contemporary and classic shows including, among others: Fiddler on the Roof, Kiss Me, Kate, West Side Story, A Little Night Music, The Last 5 Years and Wicked.
Artists participating in the production include MTFM co-founders Craig Ellingson Adam Pankow, Angie Schulz and Mathew Thibedeau. Completing the cast are MTFM new comers and local favorites Kathy Hanson and Brandy Lee. Jo Marie Fike accompanies the production.
Tickets are $8 dollars for adults, $7 for seniors (55+) and $6 for students and children. All seats are general admission and available at the door or by calling 701-237-5627.
Music Theatre Fargo-Moorhead is a new theatre organization aiming to produce professional quality musical theatre for the audiences of Fargo-Moorhead and its surrounding areas. Now in its second season, the organization intends to stage a mix of classic, audience favorites as well as contemporary shows and local premieres.
‘SKIRT FULL OF BLACK’ AUTHOR FEATURED IN MCGRATH SERIES READING, TALK OCT. 11
Poet Sun Yung Shin, Twin Cities author of “Skirt Full of Black” and currently a Bush Artists Fellow for Literature, will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11 as a feature of MSUM’s Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series. She’ll also give a talk on the writers’ craft at 4 p.m. that day.
Both events will be held in Comstock Memorial Union 101.
Born in Seoul, South Korea, she grew up in a Chicago suburb and now teaches English at the Perpich Center for Arts Education. She’s co-editor of Outsiders Within: Racial Crossings & Adoption Politics and author of Cooper's Lesson, a bilingual (Korean/English) illustrated book for children. For her work in poetry she has received a Minnesota State Arts Board grant and two Jerome Foundation grants. Shin also co-edits WinteRed Press with Rachel Moritz.
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ON STAGE OCT. 12
MSUM’s Symphony Orchestra is on stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12 in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Hansen Theatre.
GRAD STUDENT DEANS’ LECTURE OCT. 10
Kristin Ostlund, Speech-Language Pathology, presents a Graduate Student Deans’ Lecture on “Evidence-Based Practice: Environmental Cues and Modifications Used in Special Care Units to Enhance the Quality of Life for Residents with Dementia” at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10 in Comstock Memorial Union 227.
The lecture will document various environmental cues and modifications used in local dementia special care units in long-term care facilities.
MSUM HOSTS INVITATIONAL ORCHESTRA
FESTIVAL FOR 800 AREA STRING STUDENTS
The Third Annual MSUM Invitational Orchestra Festival will be held Monday, Oct. 15 and Tuesday, Oct. 16 in MSU Moorhead’s Roland Dille Center for the Arts.
This year’s festival includes 16 school orchestras totaling 800 string students. Schools from Fargo, West Fargo, Moorhead, Crookston, Coon Rapids, Andover, Plymouth and Minneapolis will participate.
“The festival,” said event founder Kirk Moss, an MSUM music professor, “is aimed at encouraging the musical growth of area orchestra programs by providing teachers and students with a unique opportunity for performance and feedback early in the school year.”
Each orchestra will receive written and recorded comments (no scores or ratings) from a guest clinician David Littrell and Moss. Following each performance, the adjudicators will present an in-depth, on-stage clinic.
Participants may also attend a special workshop entitled “Meeting National Standard 3: Improvising Melodies, Variations, and Accompaniments.” The MSUM string faculty will lead this workshop: Benjamin Sung, violin/viola; Elise Buffat Nelson, cello; and Alexander Pershounin, double bass and bass guitar. Sung is the new Concertmaster of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra.
Littrell, the guest clinician for the festival, is a University Distinguished Professor of Music at Kansas State University where he conducts the university orchestra and teaches or plays the cello, baroque cello, five-string cello piccolo, double bass, viola da gamba, and Zeta® electric cello. In 2007, Littrell received the Kansas Professor of the Year Award from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Twice previously, he received the Stamey Undergraduate Teaching Award at Kansas State University.
The performance schedule follows:
Monday, October 15
8:00 am Moorhead Middle School 6th Grade Orchestra
Moorhead • Brian Cole & Doug Neill, directors
8:55 am Coon Rapids High School Concert Orchestra
Coon Rapids • Michael Watson, director
9:50 am Moorhead Middle School 7th Grade Orchestra
Moorhead • Brian Cole & Doug Neill, directors
10:45 am Andover High School Concert Orchestra
Andover • Nancy Stutzman, director
12:35 pm Moorhead Middle School 8th Grade Orchestra
Moorhead • Brian Cole & Doug Neill, directors
1:30 pm Crookston High School Chamber Orchestra
Crookston • Valdin Buchmeier, director
2:25 pm Fargo North High School Orchestra
Fargo • Daniel J. Italiano, director
3:20 pm Wayzata High School String Orchestra
Plymouth, MN • Mark Gitch, director
4:15 pm Wayzata High School Chamber Orchestra
Plymouth, MN • Mark Gitch, director
Tuesday, October 16
8:55 am Moorhead High School Chamber Orchestra
Moorhead, • Jon Larson, director
9:50 am Discovery Middle School 7th Grade Orchestra
Fargo • Bill Slechta, director
10:45 am Cheney Middle School 8th Grade Orchestra
West Fargo • Suzanne Larson, director
12:35 pm South Campus II 9th Grade Orchestra
Fargo • Denese Odegaard, director
1:30 pm Fargo South High School Chamber Orchestra
Fargo • Tim Nelson, director
2:25 pm Ramsey International Fine Arts Center Chamber Strings
Minneapolis • Stacy Aldrich, director
3:20 pm Carl Ben Eielson 8th Grade Orchestra
Fargo • Ann Schuler, director