Metropolitan State Summer and Fall commencement

Commencement for Metropolitan State University’s summer and fall 2006 graduates took place at the Minneapolis Convention Center on Tuesday, Dec. 19. Over 900 students were listed to graduate, and over half took part in the commencement itself...

MCTC Public Safety Dept.: Security Alert

The Public Safety Department would like to inform the Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MCTC)/Metropolitan State University community of a reported abduction attempt that occurred near our Minneapolis Campus. On Dec. 13 at 12:30 p.m., a female student reported that a friend drove her to school and that she was dropped off at the intersection of Yale and Spruce Place...

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Also In This Issue:

• Metropolitan State appoints new advisor
• Staff Spotlight: Francis J. Schweigert, Ph.D., new assistant professor to the College of Management
• Women’s Services coordinator named
• Letter to the Editor: What this year’s commencement means to me
• The case for Gore in 2008
• The World In Film: Little Miss Sunshine
• Letters to the Editor: Commentary Policy
• Sporting the Twin Cities: Happy Hockey-days

Ellison’s oath on Quran roils conservatives

Before he became the nation’s first Muslim elected to Congress, Democrat Keith Ellison (Minn.) was called "unfit" for Congress by Alan Fine, his republican opponent. And that was just the beginning... Ellison is setting yet another precedent in January when he takes the oath of office on the Quran — Islam’s holiest book — an event that induced conservatives to accuse him of deviating his allegiance from the United States Constitution to Allah...

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A historical perspective
Staff Spotlight: Professor Michael Boston

In 2003, new Metropolitan State University professor, Michael Boston, Ph.D., was in Niagara Falls, N.Y. He was working on collecting and recording information on the African-American history in the region for the Black Pioneers Club of Niagara Falls. He was researching family histories, jobs people performed, places people lived and how the communities in which they lived have changed over the decades...

Metropolitan State leads with STEM degree graduates

Metropolitan State University has the highest percent of underrepresented students of color graduating with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) degrees in Minnesota. According to the data submitted by the U of M in the LSAMP grant proposal, Metropolitan State had the highest proportion of LSAMP eligible students of color (specifically African-American, American Indian and Latino students) graduating with a baccalaureate STEM degree in 2005...

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