The near future doesn’t look bright for many graduating seniors. Many factors have sent the state and national economies into recessions and work is harder to find. As MSU is about to send a new crop of students into the job market, many wonder if opportunities will still be there.
All MSU graduates have one thing on their minds — jobs. According to a 2008 survey done by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, or NACE, some jobs are hotter than others. Certain undergraduate degrees will give seniors plenty of options after they walk across the stage. The following are the top five most in-demand majors, according to NACE.
TV journalist Dan Rather will be the feature speaker at MSU’s advanced degree commencement May 8, the university announced Wednesday. Rather also will be given an honorary doctorate of humanities degree.
Renditions of Caryl Churchill’s abstract plays, “This is a Chair” and “Far Away,” will wrap up the Department of Theatre’s 2008-09 season this weekend at Snyder-Phillips Hall. The plays, co-presented by the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, or RCAH, opened Tuesday and will continue through Sunday.
College freshmen spend more time hitting the bottle than hitting the books, according to a report by Outside the Classroom. The report surveyed 30,183 college freshmen from 76 colleges and universities across the country enrolled in AlcoholEdu for College, an Outside the Classroom online alcohol education program.
During her time at MSU, Courtney Trezise’s roommates have poked fun at her for watching and keeping pace with the contestants on “Jeopardy!,” the long-running trivia game show. “They’re always like, ‘How do you know all these answers?’” the international relations and Spanish senior said.
After years of watching her daughter excel in sports, Lorraine Robbins noticed most other adolescent girls weren’t as active. She decided she wanted to change their sedentary lifestyles.
MSU police received a report of a sexual assault early Friday morning near the Main Library, and are continuing to investigate the incident, according to a police crime alert issued Friday evening.
Students, area residents and country music fans spent the brief sunny part of Saturday afternoon at the field outside Demonstration Hall, taking in the sights and sounds of the 8th annual Sparty’s Spring Party. But a rainy forecast kept attendance low and forced the party to end early.
The 46th session of ASMSU’s Student Assembly filled its leadership roles Thursday. The assembly elected its next chairs. The office of the chair represents the assembly to administration and state and federal governments.
Break dance crews across the nation met Saturday night in IM Sports-West for the Red Cedar Ransom, or the first jam held by the MSU Breakdance Club. Thirteen crews competed in the event, with the top team winning a first place, $1,000 prize.
When Gov. Jennifer Granholm proposed a $9.1 million cut to MSU’s funding in February, MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon said there would be cutbacks. To compensate for the lack of state funding, she said it would take an almost 9 percent tuition increase or more than 700 faculty and staff layoffs.
RHA passed a revision to its bylaws Wednesday to fix a discrepancy regarding hiring practices. On April 8, RHA’s committee on internal affairs was asked to review bylaws because it was unclear if Chief of Staff David Averill had followed them in recent hiring.
The sequins on the dancers’ long skirts gleamed from the stage as they twirled and bounced to the beat that echoed through the Auditorium at Wednesday’s dress rehearsal for Satrang.
MSU students are expected to have access to $7 million in new scholarship funds and financial aid after the university received an anonymous $10 million donation, the largest anonymous donation for student scholarships in MSU history, the university announced Thursday.
Each group sat around small tables carefully cutting and gluing brightly colored sheets of paper onto posters. This wasn’t an elementary classroom, but one at MSU. The students are getting ready to share information about Arbor Day with middle schoolers.
Lengthy lines and scrambling students could potentially disappear from bookstores at the beginning of a new semester as a result of federal legislation. The legislation requires universities to make lists of course materials available to students by the opening of the enrollment process.
They varied in size, color and style, but the 300 shirts that hung from clotheslines Tuesday in the Union were all interwoven with a common theme: empowerment for the women who decorated them, survivors of sexual violence.
Nine MSU faculty members, graduate students and undergraduate students have been chosen for a committee to review the job performance of the Chicano/Latino Studies program director during the next two months.
One MSU professor’s 30-year project is yielding results that could treat a disease affecting entire regions of the world.