The “Music at St. Mary’s” choral concert tradition continues with performances by four choirs, a guest organist and the crashing, smashing sounds of thunder and lighting, courtesy of the Percussion Ensemble.

A signature St. Cloud State event, "Music at St. Mary's" is 3 p.m. Nov. 22 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

The concert will open with "O Clap Your Hands," by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958). Accompanying will be organist Charles Echols, a faculty emeritus with more than a quarter-century of experience playing the St. Mary's pipe organ.

Craig Howe will re-tell American history from a unique perspective.

Howe, an Oglala Lakota, presents "Hate Speech, Horses and Hostages: The Untold Story of Lewis & Clark in Teton Territory" 7 p.m. Nov. 5 in the Miller Center Auditorium. A reception will follow.

He is director of the Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies (CAIRNS), on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation near Martin, S.D.

Students from 87 of the world's 193 recognized nations are attending St. Cloud State University this semester.

Top countries sending students to St. Cloud State include Nepal (293), China (134), India (118), Saudi Arabia (57), Malaysia (55) and Republic of Korea (45).  

View a Center for International Studies document (PDF) that details the university's international student body. 

Financial institutions deemed "too big to fail" must be regulated to avoid financial crises, James Bullard told a packed Atwood Theatre audience Oct. 9.

"If you just let the large financial firms fail, as we learned last fall, panic ensues," said the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. "These firms are not necessarily banks. One of the big issues in this financial crisis has been the rise of the shadow banking system -- largely unregulated, much less regulated than your ordinary, corner bank."

The St. Cloud State graduate argued that financial reform should include regulation of systemic risk, a mechanism for shutting down failing financial firms and systems for global cooperation.

The university saw increases in domestic new entering freshmen, new entering transfer students, students of color, graduate students and participants in the Senior-to-Sophomore and Post Secondary Enrollment Option (PSEO) programs, according to Mahmoud Saffari, associate vice president for enrollment management.

This is the largest student body since the school was founded in 1869, eclipsing the 1990 mark of 17,076 students.

In March 2008, James Bullard was named president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Six months later the nation's financial systems began to melt down.

The St. Cloud State graduate's trial-by-fire during our recent economic crisis is part of a public presentation called "The Economy" 1 p.m. Oct. 9 in the Atwood Memorial Center Theatre.

Science Express, St. Cloud State's laboratory on wheels, will bring hands-on experience in science, technology, engineering and math to K-12 students throughout Central Minnesota.

Kicking off a series of one-week visits to area schools, the mobile lab will be at Sauk Rapids Rice Middle School Sept. 21-25.

The middle school is hosting an open house for the Science Express 5-8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23.

Bill Meissner is earning critical praise for his novel about a baseball player who discovers a Native American burial ground beneath a ball field he's building.

"Spirits in the Grass," a University of Notre Dame Press title, won a Midwest Book Award in the general fiction category from the Midwest Independent Publishers Association.

Forward Magazine, a Michigan bimonthly that reviews titles from independent publishers, named the novel a finalist in its general fiction category.

President Earl H. Potter III said today that St. Cloud State University must "be what it teaches" by focusing on the "triple bottom line" of ecological, social and financial outcomes.

In a Ritsche Auditorium address that kicked off Convocation Week, Potter praised people and partnerships that have advanced the university's agenda, including three task forces, a receptionist and a campus-community science initiative.

In August, St. Cloud State University’s new Twin Cities Graduate Center will begin offering professional-level graduate programs in an executive setting at the Dex Building in Maple Grove.

“We’re making five flagship graduate programs available to a critical mass of potential students in the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul area,” said President Earl H. Potter III. “And, we have plans to expand our programming in the near future.”

An October grand opening is planned for the Twin Cities Graduate Center, which is on the first floor of a two-story building at 6401 Sycamore Court N., near the intersection of I-494 and Bass Lake Road.