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January 14, 2013
HEED award recognizes diversity and inclusion <img style='padding: 0px 10px 0px 15px; text-align: right; vertical-align: text-top;' alt='Distinctions' src='https://outlook.stcloudstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/redleaf_micro.png' />

St. Cloud State University is recognized for its commitment to diversity and inclusion in the December issue of Insight Into Diversity magazine. St. Cloud State is honored along with 47 other Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) award recipients for its ongoing efforts to include all aspects of diversity such as gender, race, ethnicity, veterans, people with disabilities and members of the LGBT community. Other Minnesota ...

January 14, 2013
Photo gallery: WPA wall dedication event

A crowd of about 100 onlookers watched Oct. 30 as master mason Brian Kostreba mortared into place a granite sign that reads “WPA 1936” as the final element of a two-month, $200,000 restoration project to help preserve St. Cloud State’s First Avenue Walls.

January 14, 2013
WPA wall restored and dedicated

  A crowd of about 100 onlookers watched Oct. 30 as master mason Brian Kostreba mortared into place a granite sign that reads “WPA 1936” as the final element of a two-month, $200,000 restoration project to help preserve St. Cloud State’s First Avenue Walls. Related links View a photo gallery from the WPA Wall dedication event. Built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), ...

January 14, 2013

Thanks to Super Storm Sandy the St. Cloud State women’s hockey team members were beneficiaries of an extended stay in Providence, R.I. The Huskies played Providence College in a non-conference series and were scheduled to leave Oct. 29. As the team loaded the bus for Boston’s Logan Airport, they learned it had been closed and all flights cancelled. The teams spent the ...

January 14, 2013

Video from UTVS Watch coverage of former President Bill Clinton’s visit courtesy of UTVS. A line of about 4,000 campus and community members snaked through Atwood Memorial Center and past the Miller Center just days before the November election to see former President Bill Clinton speak on behalf of President Barack Obama’s Minnesota campaign. The grassroots gathering was the first time a ...

January 14, 2013
Weems is quick to make her voice heard

To listen to Director of Athletics Heather Weems speak is to hear her passion for the student athlete experience. Since stepping into her new role six months ago at St. Cloud State, Weems’ days and evenings have been filled with meetings from greeting her coaches and staff to introductory sessions with individual teams, campus and community members and booster groups. Weems began her journey to athletics director as ...

January 14, 2013
Douglas H. Vinzant named vice president

President Earl H. Potter III named Douglas H. Vinzant, a veteran administrator, as the next vice president for finance and administration. Vinzant replaces Steve Ludwig who retired in June after 25 years of service with seven years as vice president. Len Sippel has filled the vice president position as an interim. Vinzant has more than 25 years of experience in public higher education leading budget, strategic planning, administration and finance, and information technology operations at ...

January 14, 2013
Education Prof Kathy Johnson attends CGI <img style='padding: 0px 10px 0px 15px; text-align: right; vertical-align: text-top;' alt='Distinctions' src='https://outlook.stcloudstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/redleaf_micro.png' />

Kathy Johnson, associate professor in the Department of Special Education, recently accompanied Zhao Chin Li, known to many as Angel, to the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) annual meeting in New York City. They attended the CGI meeting on behalf of Ginkgo Academy Partnership, a P-16 community initiative among Minnetonka Schools, St. Cloud State, Yangshuo Mountain Retreat creator Chris Barclay and others who ...

January 14, 2013

Shawn Jarvis, professor of German and chair of the foreign languages department, has compiled a 368-page hardcover book of 19th century fairy tales written by German women writers. “In the Realm of Wishes” (“Im Reich der Wünsche”) is a collection of tales with classic motifs. “The history of the German fairy tale is being rewritten in this anthology,” according to ...

January 14, 2013
Multimedia Services wins Telly Award <img style='padding: 0px 10px 0px 15px; text-align: right; vertical-align: text-top;' alt='Distinctions' src='https://outlook.stcloudstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/redleaf_micro.png' />

St. Cloud State was a winner of a 2012 Telly Award for the video entry “Earth Science Here and Abroad” featuring Kate Pound, associate professor of atmospheric and hydrologic sciences. The online commercial highlighted Pound’s core sampling research in Antarctica. The Multimedia Services department produced the promotional piece, earning an Online Video Bronze award. The University’s video production team, headed by Jim Bertram ’88, ...

January 14, 2013

St. Cloud State is one of 487 participating universities involved in the Project Degree Completion: A Public University Initiative with a commitment to increasing the number of undergraduate baccalaureate degrees granted by public universities and colleges by 3.8 million between now and 2025. President Earl H. Potter III signed a commitment to the future statement as part of the initiative through the Association of Public and ...

January 14, 2013
Construction on track

Renovation of the half-century-old Case-Hill residence hall is delivering more student-friendly comfort, features and space. The $12 million project, completed in August, returned 326 beds to service, ahead of schedule and under budget. Among the many updates are larger, more private bathrooms and air-handling equipment that improved air quality and control of room temperatures. Get more information at scsu.mn/TfKm1l. The Integrated Science and ...

September 21, 2012
Holocaust survivor speaks about medical ethics

Author Eva Mozes Kor shared her Auschwitz survival story at presentation

August 16, 2009

The Master of Science in Information Assurance program is a joint development between the College of Business and the College of Science and Engineering through the Departments of information Systems and Computer Networking Applications.

April 10, 2009

St. Cloud State University has been designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAEIAE), 2009-2014, by the National Security Agency (NSA).

April 10, 2009

St. Cloud State University is hosting the Information Assurance, Network and Software Security Symposium (IANSS) from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, May 1, in the Cascade Room, Atwood Memorial Center, on campus.

January 16, 2009

St. Cloud State University has submitted the application for Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAEIAE) to the National Security Agency (NSA) on Jan. 15.

June 16, 2008
St. Cloud State awarded for CNSS courseware mapping

The Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have certified that St. Cloud State University offers a set of courseware that has been reviewed by National Level Information Assurance Subject Matter Experts and determined to meet the National Training Standards for the duties and responsibilities of both Information Systems Security ...

April 16, 2008

On April 14, 2008, CIAS/SCSU was notified that the courseware submission (Submitted: January 15, 2008) has been certified to map 100% to the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) National Standards 4011 and 4016E.

January 16, 2008

Center for Information Assurance Studies, St. Cloud State University has submitted the application for Information Assurance Courseware Evaluation Program to the National Security Agency (NSA) on Jan. 15, 2008.

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