Listen: What it’s like to be Muslim in Minnesota
They are students, activists, welders and artists. They’ve grown up in Egypt and Yemen and north Minneapolis. They are daughters and brothers and fathers and mothers.
Huskies in the news
SCSU to host 7th weekend leadership seminar
Hundreds of students will take part in the 7th annual Power in Diversity Leadership Conference this weekend at St. Cloud State University.
A world tour offered for young cooks
Chad DeMatte ’93 will look to share the bond of cooking during a number of community education cooking courses for youth in February and March at Apollo High School.
Wells Fargo’s John Stumpf beats out Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to win CEO of the Year
There’s more to being a CEO than stock performance. That’s the message Morningstar apparently sent when it announced its 2015 CEO of the year award winner Tuesday, choosing Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf ’76 over the two other nominees, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and GE CEO Jeff Immelt.
Event highlights the importance of developing mentors
Business and community leaders in Central Minnesota are attempting to change those statistics by offering a morning event to helping young women network with seasoned professionals from a variety of industries. Times Media, in conjunction with St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud Federal Credit Union, Marco Inc. and the Greater St. Cloud Development Corp., sponsored what they hope will become an annual mentoring event for women.
Schools announce MLK speech, essay, art contest winners
A third annual contest and two new ones celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. brought 24 area students awards last week. Those results were “wonderful,” Drake said. The artist said the same about the third annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast at St. Cloud State University, which more than 500 people attended, and an evening ceremony at St. John’s University on Jan. 18.
SCSU releases Women on Wednesday topics for semester
Women on Wednesday is returning to St. Cloud State University with an “On the Pulse” theme.
Curator of history appointed at museum
Matt Anderson ’08 of Sioux City has been appointed curator of history at the Sioux City Public Museum.
Breakdown founder creates a niche
Justin Hegna still has a copy of his first Breakdown USA boys basketball yearbook from 2001 on his desk.
Having tough talks with aging parents
“The only way you’re going to know … is by asking.”
At some point, in normal parent-child relationships, the power dynamic flips. Child is caring for parent. This can be uncomfortable, uneasy, difficult to manage. One or both parties may have trouble accepting that arrangement.
