December - 2014
December 2, 2014
SVSU students to perform one-act opera Friday
Saginaw Valley State University students will perform works of opera Friday, Dec. 5. The hour-long event begins at 12:30 p.m. in SVSU's Founders Hall; it is free and open to the public.
December 15, 2014
SVSU Board Grants Degrees to 521 Graduating Students
The Saginaw Valley State University Board of Control approved granting degrees to some 521 students during the Board’s regular meeting Friday, Dec. 12. The graduating class consists of 399 students who are expected to complete bachelor’s degrees and 122 students expected to receive master's or education specialist degrees.
December 16, 2014
Youth Leadership students to present gifts to children at First Ward Community Center
Students from high schools across the Great Lakes Bay Region and from Saginaw Valley State University will make the holidays a little brighter for children who participate in after school programs at Saginaw’s First Ward Community Center.
December 17, 2014
STEM expert and university president to keynote regional MLK event at SVSU
Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, president at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and noted thought leader on STEM education, will be the keynote speaker for the Great Lakes Bay Regional Martin Luther King, Jr. event at Saginaw Valley State University. He will speak Wednesday, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. in the Malcolm Field Theatre for Performing Arts.
December 17, 2014
Leading Educators Selected for 2015 Gerstacker Fellowship at SVSU
This year, 11 outstanding Michigan educators have been selected for the Gerstacker Fellowship at Saginaw Valley State University. They will receive concentrated leadership training over a one-year period, including a capstone international experience that will send the Fellows to Poland in April.
December 17, 2014
SVSU educator secures $5K grant to develop middle school Spanish language lessons
Marlena Bravender, a Saginaw Valley State University assistant professor of teacher education, has received a $5,000 grant recently from the National Education Association Foundation to research ways to integrate online language simulations into Spanish foreign language lessons.
December 19, 2014
SVSU student receives national honor for peer health education
Matthew Walla recently was named one of six students nationally to receive the Outstanding Student of 2014 award from BACCHUS Initiatives of NASPA, a collegiate peer education organization with members from more than 340 colleges and universities nationally.
December 19, 2014
SVSU students tops at forensics competition, qualify for national tourney
Four Saginaw Valley State University students qualified for a national forensics competition after earning high placement in a recent tournament.
March 10, 2015
Professional Profile for December 2014
Julie Foss, assistant professor of modern foreign languages, presented the session “Implementing Extensive Reading” at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages’ Annual Convention, Nov. 21-23 in