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May 6
Southeast’s enrollment suffers after 18 years of growth
For the last four years, Southeast Missouri State has experienced a decline in its number of students. It comes on the heels of 20 consecutive years of increased enrollment. There are a few things that have led to the decline in enrollment including lower birth rat...
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April 30
Vacant faculty positions and failed job searches root problems for the university
Currently posted on Southeast’s official website is just under 50 job listings for both faculty and staff — the majority of them being vacant faculty positions. In 2017, and more recently in January 2019, Southeast launched two voluntary retirement buyouts. The Vol...
News
April 30
Wood remains popular choice for leadership
Diane Wood has not only spent 16 years at Southeast in the Biology Department, but she has a history of being active in Faculty Senate, both on the executive board and as a representative. People have told her of the impact her voice has on the campus, but she said...
News
April 16
When it rains it pours
It seems, hundred-year floods are becoming a common occurrence in Cape Girardeau and other places around the nation. According to Kellerman Foundation for Historic Preservation historian Frank Nickell, a retired professor of history at Southeast, the Mississippi Ri...
News
April 2
Second voluntary retirement program underway at Southeast
Southeast is in the midst of its second Voluntary Retirement Incentive Program (VRIP) in three years after there were no plans for another one in 2017. A plan was originally implemented in 2017 with the intention of it being a one-time program, but similar programs...
News
April 1
Faculty Senate discusses 5-Year Academic Calendar
Faculty Senate voted to support a proposal from Southeast president Carlos Vargas to shorten Thanksgiving break and add a two-day fall break during its meeting March 27. In 2015, Southeast ended its two-day fall break and added a weeklong Thanksgiving break to acco...
Entertainment
April 1
Alger Designs: dance instructor doubles as small business owner
Besides being an instructor of dance at the River Campus, Alyssa Alger has a business she owns and operates from her home designing and making leotards. Alger Designs provides numerous vibrant and detailed leotards for dancers locally and internationally. While she...
Features
March 4
Senior Kaetlin Lamberson aims to lobby for the arts in Missouri
Southeast dance major and political science minor Kaetlin Lamberson has had her mind set on lobbying for the arts in government since she was a senior in high school, and her college years have been devoted to that goal. The Poplar Bluff, Missouri, native has a pas...
News
February 18
Ready, Set, Build
After 16 years on the road with Disney on Ice, Matthew Buttrey returned to Southeast to finish his undergraduate degree in theatre technology, got his master’s from the University of Maryland, and now lives in New York doing freelance set-design work across the nat...
News
February 18
SupportNET helps strengthen campus communication
SupportNET is a new online program that connects Southeast students with faculty, staff and other services on campus such as the Writing Center and Textbook Rental. Coordinator of online advising Leah Michel said she would describe SupportNET as software that helps...
News
February 5
Master templates: the expansion of online courses
The master template program is making waves at Southeast in the psychology and business administration departments, having both supporters and detractors to the structured, team-based approach to expand online courses. The master templated courses are created on a ...
News
January 26
Faculty Senate discusses hot-button topic ‘master courses’
Faculty Senate discussed copyright infringement and the implementation of master courses at Southeast while touching on collegiality at its first meeting of the spring semester in the University Center Redhawks Room on Jan. 23. A master course is a templated course...
Opinion
December 3
Ariana Grande highlights growth in “thank u, next”
I’d be willing to bet that a good amount of young women across the nation have seen Ariana Grande’s newest music video for “thank u, next” at this point, and not many were mentally prepared. The song has been on the charts and breaking records since its release on ...
News
December 1
Resource Center and PRIDE hold candle light vigil for transgender remembrance
The Resource Center and PRIDE held a candle light vigil on Thursday, Nov. 29, at the Center for Student Involvement where they read the stories of those who were killed in 2017 based on their gender identities for International Transgender Day of Remembrance...
Entertainment
November 16
“Ivy” wins Best Drama at Fault Line Film Festival
The short film “Ivy” took just over a month to create from start to finish, it required long nights and hard work and some dangerous and suspenseful moments — and it recently won Best Drama at the Fault Line Film Festival on Nov. 9. The four-day festival gives Mid...
News
October 22
Ruth Ann Dickerson to be the first female sheriff in Cape County
In August, Ruth Ann Dickerson was sworn in as the Cape County interim sheriff, and on Nov. 6 she will become the first elected female sheriff for the county as she is running unopposed. Dickerson was sworn in after former sheriff John Jordan resigned over the summe...
Opinion
October 9
Be mindful: Do not leave remnants of your homecoming activities
Homecoming is approaching, and in my time here at Southeast I’ve noticed a trend when it comes to this tradition. With tailgating and school spirit, inevitably comes a substantial amount of trash left in the streets of our home away from home. We need to take bette...
Sports
September 16
Marquis Terry breaks OVC record in win against SIU
Southeast preseason All-American senior running back Marquis Terry broke the school and Ohio Valley Conference records for most rushing yards in a single game, running for 311 yards in the 48-44 victory over SIU in the inaugural War for the Wheel on Sept. 15...
News
September 10
Non-Panhellenic sorority comes to campus
The newest sorority on campus, Kappa Beta Gamma, is one “unique” from others given that it is not in the Panhellenic Council, associate vice president for Student Life Bruce Skinner said. That decision is made on a national level, Skinner said. However, the Kappa B...
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