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At Minnesota State University Moorhead, information and instructional technologies are considered essential components to fulfill the mission of the university. Higher Education is a distinct enterprise continually reaching out to find leading-edge implementations of information technology to transform the administrative, teaching, research, and service missions of the institution.

The First Congregational Church of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was organized in 1872 by the Reverend Hiram N. Gates. Gates was the minister of the Congregational Church in Connecticut when he received a commission from the American Home Missionary Society to establish Congregational churches in settlements along the newly constructed line of the Northern Pacific Railroad in northwestern Minnesota. Before leaving the East, Gates met Colonel George H. Johnston, who, as president of the New England Military and Naval Bureau of Migration, was in the process of establishing a colony at Detroit on lands purchased from the Northern Pacific Railroad Company (the name of the town that was to Detroit Lakes in 1926). Many of the original settlers of the “New England Colony” were Congregationalists, and Johnston convinced Gates to settle there.

MSUM LGBT+ students frequently asked questions.

The University may determine that it is necessary for the student to be involuntarily withdrawn from the University for the protection of the University community. Such withdrawal must be conducted according to the standards and procedures described in this policy.

Jacquelyn M. Schaefbauer donates a generous gift in memory of her father, Floyd W. Brown, a proud Dragon, Navy Veteran, and former director of Admissions.

Mary Osterfield, born in 1911, was a British musician and music teacher. She taught music at Moorhead State University from 1967 to 1977 and played with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra. She died in 2012 at 100 years old.

The Moorhead [Minnesota] Jaycee Women were chartered 1964 under the title of The Mrs. Jaycees of Moorhead. This group limits its membership to women of the ages 18-35. The Jaycee Women is a non-profit group that contains itself with fundraising projects related to community service.

The Vietnam protest movements in Fargo, North Dakota and Moorhead, Minnesota began slowly in 1966 and 1967, and grew to be among the most active anti-war movements in the rural upper Midwest. The movement peaked in 1970 with protests against the Kent State incident. Much of the anti-war activities in these two communities originated at the Moorhead State College campus.

Tammy Miller, CEO & Board Chair, Border States Electric Supply | Accounting & MBA "A good leader is someone who can inspire his or her team to do more then what was ever thought possible. Always give people something more than they expect."

The Service to Success Internships are funded through the Yellow Ribbon Advance grant and are designed specifically for military-connected students. This includes veterans, active-duty service members, enlisted personnel, spouses, and dependents.