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When you cross the stage to accept your hard-earned diploma, will you be wearing golden cords around your neck? Is graduating with honors one of the goals you have set for yourself? It’s a hard-won honor at Metropolitan State University. To graduate with honors, students must be in the top 10 percent of graduates of their college; no automatic honors are awarded based solely on individual grade point average (g.p.a.). This policy differs from most colleges and universities that bestow honors...
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In 2005, Metropolitan State University and Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MCTC) announced a "co-location initiative." In other words, a shared campus space between the two schools to better serve their spatial needs. For the past year and a half, Metropolitan State University and MCTC have been working together to create a combined campus in downtown Minneapolis. A group made up of faculty and service staff collaborated to ensure a smooth transition to the new location...
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What started off as a dream for one Metropolitan State University student is finally coming to fruition after two and half years of brainstorming. Abdurashid Ali, a native of Somalia, had always yearned for ways to help the broken education system in his native country. On Jul. 1, Ali along with two Somalis and three Americans, two of whom are professors at Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MCTC) and Inver Hills Community College (IHCC), traveled to Somalia on a "fact finding mission." The group, who is self sponsoring, is hoping to... |
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Amy Keenan, a criminal justice major, possesses a quality often lacking at Metropolitan State University, which is made up of very busy students, many who are pursing an education while working full time and raising children. Keenan’s rare quality is school spirit. While talking to Keenan she mentioned FallFest. Keenan could hardly contain her exuberance as she explained FallFest is the largest annual gathering for Metropolitan State University’s community...
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Metropolitan State University has no shortage of student-run organizations, but it may be getting one more. In addition to a modification of its curricula, the Professional Communication Public Relations Program is hoping to establish a chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) this year. Shannon Skarpohl Kaml, the curriculum coordinator of the Public Relations (PR) Program at Metropolitan State University, explained to her Public Relations Writing class that forming a chapter of the PRSSA at the college would be an important and critical step toward accreditation of the PR Program...
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