Minnesota Southeast grad returns to help students in Red Wing, Winona meet basic needs
January 27, 2021 7:29 PM Mike Tighe
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Akilah Childs, a 2016 graduate of Minnesota State College Southeast, is concentrating on expanding and organizing the college’s food pantries during her first semester as a basic needs outreach specialist. (Minnesota State College Southeast photo)
RED WING, Minn. (WKBT) Akilah Childs was a BPOC when she was a student at Minnesota College Southeast, and she’s back as a big person on campus again, as well as on the college’s Winona campus.
Childs, who graduated from the college’s Early Child Education program in 2016, was on the Red Wing school’s Student Senate, served as a peer tutor, helped plan campus-wide events and assisted Student Services with recruiting and admissions.
A local state college is getting a grant to help high school students in the area. Minnesota State College Southeast announced this week they received a $516,513 grant from the National Science Foundation.
Minnesota State College Southeast gets $516,513 grant to expand high school credit program
January 6, 2021 6:16 PM Mike Tighe
WINONA, Minn. (WKBT) Minnesota State College Southeast has received a $516,513 grant from the National Science Foundation to expand its partnerships that provide college credits and credentials to high school students.
Through the project, entitled “Rural Electronics Education Hub Pilot in the Upper Mississippi River Basin,” Minnesota State College Southeast will expand the pipeline of skilled technicians into electronics careers, according to a news release from the school, which has campuses in Winona and Red Wing.
The grant is modeled after an NSF award of $441,952 to the college in 2019 to establish a rural advanced manufacturing education hub.
Search for new president at MSCSE is under way
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Republican Eagle Editorial Board | 10:10 am, Dec. 27, 2020
In the midst of a global pandemic that spanned the spring and summer sessions, students at Minnesota State earned 26,000 degrees, certificates, and diplomas, and perhaps most importantly, 5,500 of those awards were in the nursing and health professions 350 from Minnesota State College Southeast. The Red Wing and Winona campuses produced students in practical nursing, medical laboratory technician, radiography tech, medical support careers, massage therapy, biomedical equipment technology, and certified nursing assistant.
“These students are critical in meeting Minnesota’s health care workforce needs,” said Devinder Malhotra, chancellor of Minnesota State, a system of seven universities and 30 colleges on 54 campuses in 47 communities.
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Massage therapist Dawn Bennett wrote and published a book about the importance of touch. Photo provided by Bennett.
RED WING Dawn Bennett did not always plan to write a book about touch.
Bennett went to the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire to study international business. While there she met classmates who introduced her to therapeutic touch, a type of energy work. This began Bennett’s journey into massage therapy.
She left the university and went to massage school. She graduated in 1997 and has practiced massage therapy for 23 years.
From massage, Bennett began to focus on emotional healing with her clients. She explained, “I realized that so much of the work that we do on the body also has an emotional component. Because we store a lot of our emotions in the tissues, and our memories and our traumas and our fears and all that kind of stuff.”