Hotline 11.2.20

This week’s Hotline includes the following articles: COVID-19 testing to be held today at Winter Show VCSU to host 9th Annual Solo Song Symposium Put Care19 Alert app to work for you Coronavirus update Viking sports update What’s happening at VCSU and around Valley City… COVID-19 testing to be held today at Winter Show A free COVID-19 testing event for ...

Hotline 10.19.20

This week’s Hotline includes the following articles: • COVID-19 testing to be held today at Winter Show • Put Care19 Alert app to work for you • Coronavirus update • Viking sports update • What’s happening at VCSU and around Valley City… The VCSU Hotline online newsletter is published weekly during the academic year. Deadline to submit articles (photos encouraged) ...

Planning, activities, and collaboration

Alan LaFave, D.M.A Greetings from Valley City State University! Many outside higher education might think that the summer months on a college campus are slower paced, but folks on the inside know better. While the atmosphere is certainly different this summer on campus without students, faculty, camps and in-person workshops, we are moving forward at an increased pace with a ...

Groundbreaking for the Center for the Arts

Greetings from Valley City State University! We celebrated a major milestone in the history of VCSU this past week — the official groundbreaking for the Center for the Arts. We were so pleased to be joined by faculty, staff, students, local and state leaders, and friends of the university, along with representatives from HGA Architects, JE Dunn Construction and Strata ...

Norwex Fundraiser for VCSU Scholarships

Unfortunately, due to the Corvid-19 virus, VCSU was unable to hold their annual scholarship auction. Jennifer Lang an alum of VCSU is in her 13th year with Norwex, a company whose goal is to radically reduce the use of chemicals in our homes and personal care products. Norwex allows you to clean your entire home with 2 cloths and water. ...

Opening campus this fall

Greetings from Valley City State University! As you might imagine, the most frequent question I’m asked these days is whether or not VCSU will be opening this fall and resuming face-to-face instruction. I am very pleased to enthusiastically answer with a resounding yes! In response to the pandemic, our campus Emergency Management Team is meeting twice weekly to complete our ...

VCSU offers online skill and career training courses

Valley City State University is now offering a wide variety of courses for adults in partnership with Ed2Go, a leading provider of online continuing education. Two types of courses are available: skill development courses that offer advanced training in a number of subject areas and career training courses that include industry-standard certification exams. “We’re very excited to provide these new ...

Center for the Arts construction begins

Greetings from Valley City State University! The vision came years ago, and then came the funding from the legislature with the governor’s approval. Next was the design process, and then the redesigning and value engineering. Now we’re entering the home stretch, as the construction process for our new Center for the Arts begins in earnest. Construction fencing is being installed, ...

Important end-of-semester messages

This past week spring semester 2020 came to an end. I think we all breathed a sigh of relief to have pushed through the challenges the coronavirus presented us, but it was something of a bittersweet ending without many of the festive gatherings that typically abound this time of year. We didn’t skip the celebrations, but the events were held ...

Prof. Stickler Earns Governor’s Trailblazer Award in Tourism

Joe Stickler, Ph.D., professor emeritus of science at Valley City State University, received the Trailblazer Award for Tourism Innovation on May 4, 2020, as part of the 2020 Governor’s Travel and Tourism Awards. Stickler was cited for leading the development of Medicine Wheel Park in Valley City. Work on the park, which sits above a wooded hillside overlooking the main ...