University News

Higher Education Administration Assistant Professor Dr. Brittany Williams has been honored for her efforts in providing guidance and support to graduate students in higher education. Dr. Williams was honored with the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Graduate Students and New Professional Community of Practice’s Outstanding Mentor to Graduate Students award during ACPA’s 2022 convention in St. Louis, Missouri on March 6-9. The Outstanding ...

St. Cloud State University has been recognized as one of the top institutions in the nation in 2022 to earn an online master’s degree by OnlineMastersDegrees.org, a research-backed online resource that helps students find scholarships, resources, financial aid, and connect with accredited colleges and universities across the country. OnlineMastersDegrees.org ranked St. Cloud State in the following areas: Best ...

Applied Clinical Research graduate student Linda Hood is Ms. Wheelchair Minnesota.  Hood is using her platform to bring visibility to the need to upgrade public family bathrooms to offer drop-down tables for use by significantly disabled adults and their personal care assistants. If there is no table, those who wear briefs and cannot stand need to lie on ...

St. Cloud State University students connect with faculty and staff in a new, innovative way through HuskiesAdvance to help students explore their majors and their passion through curricular, co-curricular and real-world experiences.

The St. Cloud State Speech & Debate team and multiple student members took home top honors at the 39th Minnesota State Speech & Debate Championship Tournament on Feb. 18-19 held at the University of Minnesota. As a team, St. Cloud State took first place in Team Sweepstakes, with six students also placing in the top six ...

Accessibility Awareness Week is Feb. 21-25 and Student Accessibility Services is hosting a week of events raising awareness of accessibility at St. Cloud State University. Throughout the week there are several events to attend and learn about accessibility at the university.  Beyond the Label (postponed) Beyond the Label brings disabled voices into the diversity and inclusion conversation through panels in ...

Fulbright scholar and Geography-Geographic Information Science graduate student Patrick Ken Kalonde is part of a winning team in the Copernicus Master’s University Challenge. Kalonde’s team was named one of three winners in the competition for their project “Carbon Monitoring Using Earth Observation Satellites”, which uses Sentinel-2 data to monitor, measure and verify carbon storage in forests ...

St. Cloud State University was well-represented in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China in February, with numerous current and former Huskies taking on the global stage. BEIJING, CHINA – FEBRUARY 6: Team USA – Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games at National Indoor Stadium on February 6, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Andre Ringuette/HHOF-IIHF Images) Five ...

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Minnesota is seeking mentors to serve in the Dr. Potter’s Bigs on Campus program this spring and next academic year.  Seven Tech High School students are awaiting mentors in the program. Mentees are bused to campus two Wednesdays each month over the noon hour to meet with their mentor. Mentors engage ...

Emily Goenner St. Cloud State University assistant professor Emily Goenner has made regular appearances as an expert panelist on WalletHub, a website offering customized credit-improvement advice, personalized savings alerts and 24/7 wallet surveillance, making her latest appearance on the website using her expertise to discuss and review Geico Insurance. Goenner, an assistant professor of business communications in the Marketing Department within ...

SCSU Earns National Recognition Colleges of Distinction advocates for schools whose undergraduate experiences are grounded in a philosophy of well-rounded, individualized engagement. St. Cloud State University has excelled at having students graduate and enter the workforce with solid, well-developed critical thinking skills as well as the ability to adapt in an ever-changing society. Now, more than ever, ...

Fall courses now posted St. Cloud State University’s Fall 2022 courses are now available to view in the course schedule. Students can start planning now by viewing what courses are available and making an appointment with your advisor. Undergraduate Registration windows begin opening March 14 by credit hour. As you prepare for Fall 2022 registration here are some tips and ...

St. Cloud State University’s School of Health and Human Services has evolved to become the College of Health and Wellness Professions. This new name reflects our mission to prepare students to be leaders, scholars and professionals in promoting optimal health and wellness in our communities. The college is focused on delivering inter-professional education where students learn from ...

Research by professors Dr. Jennifer Lamb and Dr. Matthew Davis made a splash in February when it was published in Scientific Reports. They had found biofluorescence, where organisms emit a fluorescent glow after absorbing light energy, may be widespread in amphibians including salamanders and frogs. Biofluorescence had previously been observed in only one salamander and three frog ...

The annual St. Cloud State University Bryce Lecture this February features both a speaker and a film, both of which are related to a three-minute family vacation film taken in 1938 of Jewish life in a small town in Poland.  The lecture starts off with a presentation by Dr. Glenn Kurtz on “Personal Story, Public History: ...

Mathematical Statistics and Mathematics student Sean Cranston is celebrating his abstract accepted by the National Conference on Undergraduate Research.  He did the research project “Build an artificial intelligence-based movie recommendation engine with machine learning algorithms” under supervision of Dr. Mengshi Zhou, assistant professor of Data Science/Analytics. In this project, Cranston used multiple data science tools such as recommendation ...

Publicly announced in April 2021, the campaign set a goal of $32 million with the hope to promote academic distinction, a university of teacher-scholars, student success, annual support and expanding regional reach as well as other priorities for St. Cloud State.  With the start of 2022, the St. Cloud State University Foundation is excited to announce ...

Selling is an evolving field and the need for professional sellers is more important than ever as technology, the internet and social media converge. Sales education is also evolving quickly, and St. Cloud State University’s Professional Selling Specialization is among those leading the way. Launched in 2014, the certificate program has graduated more than 200 students ...

St. Cloud State University announces The Minnesota Institute of Technology at St. Cloud State University (TMIT@SCSU) marking a significant expansion of interdisciplinary research and development of emerging technologies designed to solve problems and meet workforce demands. The first of its kind in the State of Minnesota, TMIT@SCSU creates learning environments across campus with technology at the heart of ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Community Celebration returns in 2022 with multi day, multi-generational, and hybrid events that raise up the theme “Trust & Healing in the Beloved Community.” All activities take place Jan. 15-17. “We are so incredibly excited for all that is planned this year, and to commemorate Dr. King’s dream of a ...