Forward Together: Building on Excellence

Greetings from Valley City State University! Homecoming is always a special time to welcome alumni back to campus, invite the community to participate in many events, and engage the students, faculty and staff in fun and memorable activities. The week of September 23-28 is filled with exciting activities and events for our students, faculty, staff, alumni and members of the ...

LaFave Inaugurated as VCSU President, Sept. 27

An inauguration ceremony for Alan D. LaFave, D.M.A., the 14th president of Valley City State University, will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, Sept. 27, at the W.E. Osmon Fieldhouse on the VCSU campus. At the inauguration ceremony, LaFave will receive the formal investiture of office from Nick Hacker, chair of the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education, and ...

VCSU alumni to be honored at 2019 Homecoming

Several Valley City State University alumni will be honored during the VCSU Alumni Association 2019 Homecoming celebration to be held Friday-Saturday, Sept. 27- 28. On Saturday morning, the Alumni Honors Breakfast will be held at the VCSU Student Center cafeteria beginning at 8:30 a.m. The Honors Breakfast provides the VCSU Alumni Association with an opportunity to present fellow alumni with ...

VCSU ranks 2nd in Midwest among public colleges by U.S. News

Valley City State University has been ranked the No. 2 public regional college in the Midwest in the 2020 U.S. News Best College Rankings. VCSU was ranked third in the 2019 rankings. VCSU has now appeared in the U.S. News “Best College” rankings for 22 consecutive years, and the university has been ranked in the top three Midwest public regional ...

Welcome to new staff and those in new roles

In addition to the new faculty I introduced in my previous column, we also have more than two dozen staff members who have joined us in the past academic year or moved to new roles on campus. Although they’re not typically in the classroom, these individuals often have much direct contact with students, and regardless of their responsibilities, they contribute ...

VCSU recognized in Washington Monthly national college rankings

Valley City State University has been recognized in Washington Monthly’s 2019 national college rankings in two categories. VCSU is ranked 51st of 372 schools in the Midwest in Washington Monthly’s Best Bang for the Buck Colleges (Midwest) listings. Among all U.S. bachelor’s institutions — defined by Washington Monthly as “four-year institutions that award almost exclusively bachelor’s degrees” — VCSU ranks ...

Welcome new faculty members

Greetings from Valley City State University! As part of Welcome Week activities on campus, we recently welcomed 10 new members of the faculty to the VCSU community. I’m excited by the energy, enthusiasm and experience they bring to their teaching positions with us, and I’m pleased to introduce them via the biographical sketches below. Note that several are renewing their ...

Interim legislative committee meets at VCSU

Greetings from Valley City State University! On Thursday, July 18, Valley City State University hosted the Interim Higher Education Funding Formula Review Committee on campus. We sincerely appreciate all that the legislature has done for higher education and VCSU during this past session and are very excited to move forward with final design work on our new arts and communication ...

The value of external collaboration

Greetings from Valley City State University! When I interviewed for the VCSU presidency, one of the most consistent and overriding comments I heard from campus and community constituents centered on the strength of the relationship between the university and the Valley City/Barnes County community, and the importance of sustaining and enhancing this relationship. I have found this to be very ...

Great Plains STEM Center hosts Middle School STEM academy

The Great Plains STEM Education Center at Valley City State University recently hosted 33 North Dakota students from New Town and Trenton in its Middle School STEM Academy. The first week of the academy, held June 16-20, brought a cohort of 12 rising eighth graders from New Town Public School back to Valley City this summer; the group had attended ...