Two students named to Dean’s List

Karli Kawlewski of New York Mills and Marc Kjos of New York Mills, have been named to the University of Jamestown Spring 2023 Dean’s List. 

Students are named to the Dean’s List for maintaining a semester GPA of 3.50 or better. There were 349 students named to the list this semester.

M-State announces spring honors lists

Minnesota State Community and Technical College has named 498 students to its President’s List and 547 students to its Dean’s List for the 2023 Spring Semester.

Students on the President’s List earned a grade point average of 4.0 while completing a minimum of six college-level credits and 75 percent of the courses in which they enrolled for the semester.

Students on the Dean’s List earned a GPA of 3.50 to 3.99 while completing a minimum of six college-level credits and 75 percent of the courses in which they enrolled for the semester.

Students named to the M State President’s List and Dean’s List are: Alexander Anderson, New York Mills, President’s List; Emma Bartels, New York Mills, Dean’s List; Erin Bishop, New York Mills, President’s List; Jamie Flynn, New York Mills, President’s List; Kaitlyn Geiser, New York Mills, President’s List; Aliya Gerber, New York Mills, Dean’s List; Emma Perala, New York Mills, President’s List; Josephine Piepkorn, New York Mills, Dean’s List; Olivia Pilgrim, New York Mills, President’s List; Kalli Steinbach, New York Mills, President’s List; Trisha Stromme, New York Mills, President’s List; Isabel VanWatermulen, New York Mills, Dean’s List; Kimberly Gonzalez, New York Mills, Dean’s List; Madalin Doll, Ottertail, Dean’s List; Brianna Hofmann, Ottertail, Dean’s List; Cary Ann Juvrud, Ottertail, Dean’s List; Tori Krause, Ottertail, Dean’s List; LaVonne Lindberg, Ottertail, President’s List; Grace Mindermann, Ottertail, Dean’s List and Molly Pearson, Ottertail, Dean’s List.

Local students to graduate from MSUM

Minnesota State University Moorhead will award degrees to more than 800 students during its spring commencement program Friday, May 12, in the university’s Nemzek Fieldhouse. This includes 185 graduate students.

Stephanie Ballard will be the commencement speaker. She is a 2014 elementary inclusive education graduate who earned special education licensures in specific learning disabilities and emotional/behavioral disorders. While a special educator at Camelot Intermediate School in Brookings, S.D., she was awarded Camelot Intermediate School Teacher of the Year. She now teaches 7th-grade math at Mickelson Middle School in Brookings. Ballard received the George S. Mickelson Middle School, Brookings School District, SD Region 1 Teacher of the Year in 2021, going on to be named the 2022 South Dakota Teacher of the Year. Additionally, she was recently named one of five national finalists for the 2023 NEA and Horace Mann Teaching with Excellence Award.

Local students who graduated from MSUM include: Noah Coffey, Ottertail, Construction Management; Sophie Lange, Deer Creek, MS Speech-Language Pathology; Brianna Schwantz, Ottertail, Digital Media Management; Hannah Barthel, New York Mills, Nursing; Sierra Gerber, New York Mills, Nursing and Alexa Leiranm New York Mills, Elementary Inclusive Education.