Career Center wants students to head to Handshake
Metro State’s Career Center is developing color-coded cards to inform students about Handshake and other career development tools. The cards will be available in advisors’ offices and campus kiosks. Photo by Scott Lindell

Career Center wants students to head to Handshake

Students can log on to Handshake to register for campus job fairs and resume reviews. But Metro State's Career Center says Handshake is much more than a transactional website.

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First-generation students form friendly club
First-Generation College Student Organization members (L-R) Mai Yang, Wendy Vang Roberts, and Winnie Nyange plan future events at their club meeting on Feb. 14 in room L118 of Founders Hall. Photo by Scott Lindell

First-generation students form friendly club

First-generation college students come up against many challenges, but now they have another source of support on campus.

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Networking expert headlines Career Ideas Festival
Marcia Ballinger is the featured speaker at the 2018 Metro State Career Ideas Festival. She is co-founder of Ballinger Leafblad, a St. Paul executive search firm. Photo courtesy of Marcia Ballinger

Networking expert headlines Career Ideas Festival

Minnesota recruiter will reveal nine networking mistakes and how to avoid them.

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Digging into the data and mining for meaning
“Discovery Award” winners Team Alpha United and their instructor. From left to right: Benjamin Sipe, Mohamed Abdi, Khom Redlinger, Dr. Firasat Khan (instructor), David Bowles, and Dahir Mohamed. Photo by Scott Lindell.

Digging into the data and mining for meaning

Metro State students receive award in their first data analytics competition.

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Beat back writer’s block at the Writing Center
Photo by Scott Lindell

Beat back writer’s block at the Writing Center

Metro State stu­dents have reams of writ­ing assign­ments every semes­ter. And the check­list for a qual­ity paper is daunt­ing: cor­rect punc­tu­a­tion, proper gram­mar, flaw­less cita­tions and clear writ­ing. Luck­ily, there’s help to be had on campus.

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