Selena Huapilla-Perez is a long way from home and a long way from the fields where she used to work with her family as a migrant worker. Selected as this year’s MSU Convocation speaker, she is the first Latina in MSU's history to be chosen for this honor. As Convocation speaker, she will represent the 5,677 undergraduate degree candidates who are…
Ellen Moll, an Academic Specialist in the Center of Integrated Studies in the Arts and Humanities (IAH), led almost 50 students from across the university this past semester in a course that provided civic engagement and gave students the opportunity to create materials for the MSU Planetarium. The specific course, Human Values in the Arts & Humanities (IAH 231A), had…
The Citizen Scholars program, which launched in Fall 2016 to prepare the next generation of diverse, high-achieving, and engaged citizen leaders, has graduated its first three students. A collaboration between all departments within the College of Arts & Letters, the Citizen Scholars program aims to help undergraduate students identify and achieve their goals while preparing them for meaningful careers and…
Emily Jenkins is the 2019 recipient of the Professional Writing (PW) Outstanding Major Award, with honorable mentions going to Ellyse St. John and Timothy Snyder. Presented by the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures (WRAC), the Professional Writing Outstanding Major Award recognizes graduating students who demonstrate excellence in the classroom, success in experiential learning, and engagement with the community. “Receiving this…
Nine College of Arts & Letters students each were awarded a $500 scholarship from the Alumni Endowed Student Book Scholarship and Robert L. Fiore Student Book Scholarship funds as a recognition of their academic achievement and to help ease the financial burden of a college education. The funds may be put towards school materials such as books and art supplies.…
Dr. Cara Cilano has been appointed Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education for the College of Arts & Letters, effective July 1, 2019. Cilano has served as Chair of MSU’s Department of English since July 1, 2016. She also is a Big Ten Academic Leadership Program Fellow (2018-19), an intensive program that develops the leadership and managerial skills of faculty who…
Abigail Crick, who will graduate May 5 with a B.A. in English and a minor in Native American and Indigenous Studies, has furthered her activist work in Indigenous communities, expanded her passion for poetry, and connected with like-minded professionals through the College of Arts & Letters’ Citizen Scholars program. Crick will be one of the first three students to graduate from the…
Allison Steffen will be one of the first three students to graduate from the College of Arts & Letters’ Citizen Scholars program, which launched in the fall 2016 to help prepare the next generation of diverse, high achieving, and engaged citizen leaders. “As one of the first students to have completed the program, I think the members of my class were…
Episode seven of season three of the Liberal Arts Endeavor podcast is out! In this episode, Dean Christopher P. Long discusses why language changes over time with Suzanne Wagner, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Linguistics program in the Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages. She is also Core Faculty member at the Center for Gender in…
Graduating senior Cassie Feith has been selected as the student speaker for the spring 2019 College of Arts & Letters commencement ceremony to be held on Sunday, May 5, at 9:30 a.m. at the Breslin Student Events Center. At the same time, she also will receive the Alumni Award for Undergraduate Excellence, one of the top awards presented by the…