University News

An off-campus St. Cloud State University athletics facility is now available for public purchase.

St. Cloud State University hosted 700 attendees for the Minnesota Varsity League (MNVL) high school and middle school winter finals last weekend in Atwood Memorial Center.

The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) has awarded St. Cloud State University a $327k training grant in partnership with specialty contractor Veit.

After a successful three-year stint being used to develop safe and effective operation skills, an industry-grade robot has moved to the St. Cloud State University campus to provide students essential hands-on experience.

Erich Rice of St. Cloud State University and Brian Volkmuth of St. Cloud Technical & Community College convened a stakeholder meeting with Wayzata Public Schools. The goal of the meeting was to establish a partnership for cybersecurity education, encompassing student and faculty training, career development, and DoD funding opportunities. The meeting further highlighted the need ...

St. Cloud State University’s Dr. J. Scott Baker has been named one of the state’s top educators. Baker, an associate professor of secondary education, was honored by the Minnesota State Board of Trustees Awards for Excellence as a 2025 Educator of the Year in the Excellence in Teaching category.

Mike Heen has been named the new director of the Central Minnesota Small Business Development Center (SBDC). The SBDC has a long tradition of helping individuals start successful businesses.

St. Cloud State University students from UTVS, Husky Productions and KVSC were recently honored by the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts.

St. Cloud State University will host a Polar Plunge on March 21 at 1 p.m. in the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center parking lot to help raise money for Special Olympics Minnesota.

St. Cloud State University professor Christopher Lehman and alumna Cathy Coats ’13 ’17 have both been named finalists for the 2025 Minnesota Book Awards.

KVSC radio station will hold their 46th annual Trivia Weekend on Feb. 14-16. This year’s theme for the 50-hour trivia marathon is Trick-or-Trivia. KVSC’s first trivia weekend began in 1980, and about 50 teams participate in the annual event.

St. Cloud State University senior Kendall Cross is one of many students conducting invaluable undergraduate research at SCSU, and his work is a key part of setting up success for future cataloging of the region’s various plant specimens.

Erich Rice, an instructor in Information Systems from St. Cloud State University (SCSU), and Brian Volkmuth, an instructor in Cybersecurity and Networking from St. Cloud Technical and Community College (SCTCC) met with several dozen high school students at St. Cloud Technical High School on November 11th, 2024 and Apollo High School on November 15th, 2024 ...

Last summer, the Comprehensive Facilities Plan identified the need to right-size the campus footprint through space realignment. We are writing today to confirm our intent to relocate academic functions from the Performing Arts Center building to Stewart Hall prior to the start of the 2025-26 academic year.

St. Cloud State University alumna Carissa Natalia Baconguis has won the Nine Syllables Press chapbook contest for her book of poetry “Sacred and Perishable”.

St. Cloud State University Esports will host two significant gaming tournaments in March, allowing the region to compete in SCSU’s state-of-the-art Huskies Esports Arena. SCSU will host the third edition of Northstar on March 8-9. The regional esports tournament is the community’s premier on-campus tournament each spring.

Huskies Scholarships are now open and accepting applications! Apply for 2025-26 scholarships now through March 16.  

Holocaust survivor Manny Gabler will speak at 2 p.m. in SCSU’s Atwood Theatre on Feb. 12. The event is free and open to the public. SCSU’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education has organized the event as part of its annual Bryce Lecture Series, which is celebrating its 10th year in 2025.

St. Cloud State University’s former head athletic trainer Julie Alexander has been named a Breaking Barriers Award honoree by 2025 National Girls & Women in Sports Day-Minnesota.

St. Cloud State University recently took first place at the 2025 Minnesota State Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC), held by the Minnesota State IT Center of Excellence. Ten teams from across Minnesota competed at Alexandria Technical and Community College on Jan. 25. SCSU advances to the Regional CCDC on March 14–15, which will be hosted by ...