Before you bring students back to classrooms, you have to put their chairs back. That’s what some student workers will be doing over the next few weeks: Returning from storage some 4,000 chairs and … [Read more...]
The exit interview
April 27, 2021 By Leave a Comment
Retiring University President Richard Davenport sat down for a talk about 19 years at Minnesota State Mankato—during which the university became the flagship of the Minnesota State system. What … [Read more...]
KMSU and Me
April 26, 2021 By Leave a Comment
I’m sure they’re around, somewhere, the old cassette tapes containing a lot of my firsts in journalism: My first news stories, first clumsy interviews, first broadcasts and first major mistakes. All … [Read more...]
The retirement of Rick Robbins
April 12, 2021 By Leave a Comment
In charting the growth and success of creative writing at Minnesota State Mankato, the open-mic series known as Writers Bloc is hardly the first thing that comes to … [Read more...]
Maverick time signatures
April 12, 2021 By Leave a Comment
At first blush, there might not seem much beyond blood that would connect recent University graduate Cullen Mitchell, ’20, and his late grandmother Arlys Bonderman, ’71. Bonderman, her … [Read more...]
Law enforcement’s big picture
April 12, 2021 By Leave a Comment
After George Floyd died under the knee of a Minneapolis Police officer, Pat Nelson was worried about her students. The Floyd incident happened on May 25, and within weeks Nelson, … [Read more...]