LSC students, faculty and staff enjoyed Fiesta de Navidad festivities, where LSC Spanish students shared holiday traditions from Spanish-speaking countries, including alfajores (cookies), horchata (beverage), music and crafts. Thanks to everyone who stopped by and helped organize this fun celebration.

The Erickson Library hosted an Artist Talk with artist Nancy XiáoRong Valentine discussing her artwork titled, The Audacity to be Asian in Rural America: we owe you no apologies. It's a series of 12 watercolor and Chinese ink scroll paintings on rice paper that visually tells the story of the artist's Chinese American immigrant ancestors' experience in rural western Minnesota. Six of the paintings are now on display at LSC's Erickson Library, with the remaining six on display at UMD. The exhibit runs through December 17.

Exhibit examines the 'Audacity to be Asian in Rural America' at LSC and UMD in the Duluth News Tribune.

Artist shares family's Chinese immigration story at LSC, UMD on WDIO.

Vaccinations: Minnesota State is following the guidance from the State of Minnesota and Minnesota Department of Health on vaccinations of our students and employees. An all employee email went out on September 8, and is also available on the website.

As a reminder, please do not come to campus if you're feeling sick, symptomatic and/or had any exposure to COVID-19. This includes those mandated under Policy 1446 to complete weekly testing on campus. If you are feeling sick or feel you may have been exposed to COVID-19, please contact your healthcare provider and/or use community testing sites rather than coming to campus for testing, as we are not setup like a community testing site. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

The most effective way we can reduce the spread of COVID-19 and avoid further restrictions is to get vaccinated.For more information and how to find a vaccine location, please visit mn.gov/covid19/. 

For more information and to continue to stay up to date on the latest COVID-19 related info, please visit: lsc.edu/coronavirus.

As always, if you have story ideas, pictures/videos you'd like us to share and/or any other updates/promotions and/or student/alumni/employee success stories, please submit a marketing request (or email marketing@lsc.edu but it's best to submit a request if you want your request tracked) so we can include it in the newsplash, on LSC's website and on social media. Thanks for helping promote all the positive things happening in #IceHawkNation.

Individuals with disabilities may request reasonable accommodations by contacting LSC's Disability Services, (218) 733-7650/(800) 432-2884, S155, or Georgia Robillard at georgia.robillard@lsc.edu