Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM) is a four-year, public university and part of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) located in Moorhead, Minnesota. Its athletic teams are called The Dragons. The campus newspaper is The Advocate, formerlyThe Moorhead State Mistic (closed by the administration in 1970). The school also publishes a yearly literary magazine, Red Weather. It is primarly an undergraduate institution, although the school does confer some graduate degrees. MSUM offers in-state tuition for all students.

The school's college radio station is KMSC.

History

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The plans for what would become MSUM were laid down in 1885, when the Minnesota State Legislature passed a bill declaring the need for a new state normal school in the Red River Valley, with an eye on Moorhead. The State Senator who proposed the bill, State Senator Solomon Comstock, donated six acres and appropriated the funds that would go to form the campus which opened in 1888. In 1921, the State authorized the school to confer bachelor's degrees and the school became Moorhead State Teachers College.

With the arrival of World War II, the college contracted to teach aviation students of the Army Air Corps to train aviation students. As a result the school began broadening its offerings and by 1957 the name was changed to Moorhead State College. In 1969, the school joined a cooperative cross-registration exchange with neighboring Concordia College and North Dakota State University, creating the Tri-College University. The school continued to increase its number of programs and by 1975, the State Legislature that year permitted the institution to change its name to Moorhead State University. On July 1, 2000, the school changed became Minnesota State University Moorhead.

Facts

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• Enrollment: approximately 7,500 students
• Top Majors: elementary education, mass communications, business administration, art, biology, accounting, psychology, criminal justice, special education, and graphic communications.
• Average Scholarship: about States dollar|$" target="_blank" >^*850
• 9% of freshman participate in intercollegiate athletics.
• More than 1,600 students live in campus residence halls.
• MSUM offers more than 100 Student Organizations

The MSU Moorhead Student Government is the Student Senate, composed of the Executive Branch (President, Vice President, Treasurer), Student Senators, Committee Chairs, Campus Liaisons, and employees.

MSU Moorhead has had six Minnesota Case Professors of the Year, more than any other higher education institution in Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Iowa, or Wisconsin.

Notable alumni

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• Leif Enger
• Nikita Koloff
• Collin Peterson
• Ed Schultz
• Kevin Sorbo
• Kevin R. Shores
• Jerry verDorn
• Patrick Volkerding

External link

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• Minnesota State University Moorhead official website

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