St. Cloud State University is a four-year public university founded in 1869 on the banks of the Mississippi River

Mississippi River

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 in St. Cloud, Minnesota

St. Cloud, Minnesota

St. Cloud is a city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the largest population center in the state's central region. The population was 65,842 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Stearns County...

, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. The university is the largest member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system which is the largest single provider of higher education in the state of Minnesota. With more than 18,000 students, St. Cloud State has Minnesota's second-highest university enrollment. St. Cloud State has more than 100,000 alumni worldwide; Notable alumni include John Stumpf

John Stumpf

John Stumpf became Chairman for Wells Fargo & Company in January 2010. He was named Chief Executive Officer in June 2007, elected to Wells Fargo’s Board of Directors in June 2006, and has been President since August 2005....

, president

President

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 and CEO of Wells Fargo & Company, and James B. Bullard

James B. Bullard

James B. Bullard is the 12th president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He is currently serving a term that began on March 1, 2011. Dr. Bullard succeeded William Poole as president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank on April 1, 2008....

, president

President

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 and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

History

St. Cloud State University opened its doors to students in 1869, under the name Third State Normal School. The school consisted of one building, the Stearns House, a renovated hotel purchased by the state Legislature for $46,000. Classrooms were on the first floor, the "model school" was on second floor and a women's dormitory was housed on the third floor. The five-member faculty was headed by Principal Ira Moore. Of the 53 original students, 43 were women. In 1898, the school began offering a junior college curriculum.

In 1914, the school dropped its secondary education program entirely. The legislature authorized a name change in 1921, allowing the school to adopt the name St. Cloud State Teachers College (the word "teachers" was deleted in 1957). The first bachelor's degrees were awarded in 1925, with master's degree programs offered beginning in 1953.

In 1975, St. Cloud State became a university, comprising five colleges and a graduate school. The G.R. Herberger Business School is recognized as one of the top business colleges in the country and is one of only four in the state that is nationally accredited. Within the past decade, the College of Science and Engineering established and gained full accreditation for its Computer Engineering program. It is the only university in Minnesota that offers an ABET accredited Manufacturing Engineering Program. It also offers ABET accredited Electrical and Mechanical Engineering programs, along with Computer Science. St. Cloud State University's Master of Engineering Management is the only program in Minnesota that is certified by the American Society of Engineering Management (ASEM).

In 1987, men's hockey became an NCAA Division I program. Two years later the team moved into a new two-rink arena called the National Hockey Center. In 1998, the university added a women's hockey team at the Division I level.

In 2010, the university teamed with the private sector to build a welcome center and student housing complex adjacent to campus. The university leases the Welcome Center and Coborn Plaza Apartments.

Previous school names

• St. Cloud Normal School 1869–1921
• St. Cloud State Teachers College 1921–1957
• St. Cloud State College 1957–1975
• St. Cloud State University 1975–present

Academics

The university was created as a Normal school

Normal school

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, then developed college-level programs for teachers. Today it offers more than 200 majors, minors and pre-professional programs in five academic colleges. The School of Graduate Studies offers more than 60 graduate programs and certificates leading to specialist, Master of Arts, Master of Business Administration, Master of Engineering Management, Master of Music, Master of Science degrees and an Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration. A new graduate program of note is the master's in regulatory affairs & services, one of five programs offering classes at the university's Twin Cities Graduate Center in Maple Grove, Minn.

St. Cloud State has about 20 education-abroad programs, including a year-around program at Alnwick Castle

Alnwick Castle

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 in northern England

England

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.

Colleges and schools

St. Cloud State offers more than 200 undergraduate and more than 60 graduate programs of study through two colleges and six schools. The academic structure described below takes effect July 1, 2011.

College of Science and Engineering College of Liberal Arts School of Education, NCATE accredited. School of Health and Human Services G.R. Herberger Business School, AACSB accredited. School of Computers, Engineering and Environment School of the Public Affairs School of the Arts

Student life

At the beginning of each academic year students are invited to "Mainstreet," an event held on campus, to peruse student organizations and groups as well as those offered by the community.

Residence Halls

Nearly 20 percent of St. Cloud State students live in one of the eight traditional residence halls or in an apartment-style hall on campus. In August 2010, as a part of Fifth Avenue Live, St. Cloud State opened the Coborn Plaza Apartments, a new residence hall that is capable of housing 455 students in high-amenity apartments with underground parking.

Traditional residence halls:

Apartment-style residence halls:

• Stateview
• Coborn Plaza Apartments

Student organizations

St. Cloud State allows students to join an array of 250 student organizations. Click on the following link to access a list of the organizations at St. Cloud State.

• St. Cloud State Organizations

Greek life

Students can also join one of the nine houses that represent the Greek population

Fraternities and sororities

Fraternities and sororities are fraternal social organizations for undergraduate students. In Latin, the term refers mainly to such organizations at colleges and universities in the United States, although it is also applied to analogous European groups also known as corporations...

 at St. Cloud State.

Sororities

Fraternities

Delta Phi Epsilon Delta Phi Epsilon (social) Delta Phi Epsilon is an international sorority founded on March 17, 1917 at New York University Law School in New York City... Delta Zeta Delta Zeta Delta Zeta is an international college sorority founded on October 24, 1902, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Today, Delta Zeta has 158 collegiate chapters in the United States and over 200 alumnae chapters in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada... Kappa Phi Omega

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Student Media

KVSC-FM is a public radio station licensed to St. Cloud State University. The station first started on May 10, 1967 and expanded broadcasting times in September 1994.

The University Chronicle is the student newspaper and is published twice a week. It has been published since 1921.

University Television Station (UTVS) is a student-run television station, which airs live newscasts and other programming. The station is broadcast on Charter Communications

Charter Communications

Charter Communications is an American company providing cable television, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to more than 4.7 million customers in 25 states. By revenues, it is the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, behind Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox Communications...

' cable channel 21 in the greater St. Cloud area. Broadcasts of sporting events, including men's hockey, are also aired on other Charter franchises.

Student Media Awards

In the spring of 2009, student-run media outlets received awards from five different competitions that garner national, regional, and state recognition. Husky Productions received the Global Media Award for College Sports "Best Live Game or Live Event" for its telecast of a November hockey game between Wisconsin and St. Cloud State. At the Broadcast Educators Association Awards in Las Vegas, UTVS, Husky Mag, and Husky Productions received three out of the 17 awards recognized. Husky Mag took first place in the studio competition, two students received first place in the music video category, and Husky Productions took second place in the studio production category. In March 2009, KVSC-FM received four awards from the Minnesota Associated Press Broadcasters for work done in 2008. The honorees were: Aaron Bjokrstrand's "Rage Against Abuse", received Best in show; "Husky Hockey Review", first in Sports Reporting; Jenna Wundrow's "SCSU Recycling Program: Green or Guilt?"; first in documentary/investigative; and Peter Tomala and Patrick Sullivan's "Husky Sports Friday"; honorable mention in sports reporting. Students with the University Chronicle received 11 Better Newspaper Contest awards for their work in 2008 from the Minnesota Newspaper Association; the University Chronicle received second place for its typography and design.

Minnesota State University Student Association

Each student attending St. Cloud State University pays a .43 cent per credit fee to fund the Minnesota State University Student Association

Minnesota State University Student Association

The Minnesota State University Student Association is an independent, non-profit organization funded and operated by students. MSUSA serves nearly 70,000 students attending Minnesota's seven state universities: Bemidji State University, Minnesota State University Mankato, Metropolitan State...

, a student-led non-profit that advocates on behalf of all Minnesota state university students.

Athletics and Activities

The university currently sponsors 21 Division II teams and is a member of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference

Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference

The Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference is a college athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern United States. Nine of its members are in Minnesota, with two members in South Dakota and one member each in the states of Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota. It participates in the NCAA's...

. The St. Cloud State's men's and women's ice hockey teams also compete in Division I as a member of the WCHA

Western Collegiate Hockey Association

The Western Collegiate Hockey Association is a college athletic conference which operates over a wide area of the Midwestern and Western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as an ice hockey-only conference....

 division. The mascot is the Husky

Husky

Husky is a general name for a type of dog originally used to pull sleds in northern regions, differentiated from other sled dog types by their fast hard pulling style...

.

St. Cloud State University provides free admission to all sports for students (including football and hockey). This is possible through an athletic fee

The school operates a radio station, KVSC

KVSC

KVSC 88.1 FM in Saint Cloud, Minnesota is part of Minnesota's Independent Public Radio network. It is operated by St. Cloud State University and broadcasts a freeform radio format...

 88.1 FM. Students publish a newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

, the University Chronicle. Students also run a television station known as UTVS, which recently won first place for best student news and productions from the Society of Professional Journalists

Society of Professional Journalists

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, as well as honorable mention at a New York competition in 2004.

The school operates a theatre called Theatre L'homme Dieu. The theatre produces a ten-week season of plays and musicals each summer. The theatre employs professional actors, directors, and designers usually from the Twin Cities

Twin cities

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 theatre community. The theatre also employs a resident intern company of twenty student apprentices. Most of the student apprentices are theatre majors from SCSU and other Midwestern universities.

Coborn Plaza opens in 2010

Construction of a St. Cloud State welcome center and 455-student housing complex at Coborn Plaza was completed in August 2010. The welcome center and apartment-style housing are part of the first phase of Fifth Avenue Live, a private development adjacent to campus. Student apartments will be on the upper floors of the north and south buildings. Retail will be on the ground floor of the north building. The welcome center is slated for the ground floor of the south building. The university is leasing the apartments and welcome center from the J.A. Wedum Foundation.The two buildings combined are called Coborn Plaza in honor of the community contributions of the Coborn family, whose grocery chain formerly had a store on that site.

Twin Cities Graduate Center opens

In July 2009, St. Cloud State added a presence in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area

Metropolitan area

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 with a graduate center in Maple Grove, MN. The Twin Cities Graduate Center uses the cohort instructional model of learning, in which small groups of student proceed through the program together. Classes from programs such as business administration, higher education administration, counseling and regulatory affairs and services are offered.

Riverview Renovated

Lawrence Hall renovated

After an extensive restoration project in 2002 and 2003, St. Cloud State reopened the doors to historic Lawrence Hall to host a cultural melting pot of international and American Students studying foreign languages. The hall was first built in 1895 housing women students and later housing men for a few years. After originally being touted as fireproof, the building burned beyond repair and a new Lawrence Hall was built in 1905. It once again served as housing until it was retired in 1974 with exception to the basement floor which was used to facilitate a Math Skills Center. The Math Skills Center was forced out of the hall in 1999 after the structure was deemed unfit. After being distinguished as a campus eyesore efforts began to start a restoration campaign of the hall with funding for the project coming from the state's Legislation's bonding bill in 2000.

Hockey program to Division I

In the 1986-1987 season, Herb Brooks

Herb Brooks

Herbert Paul Brooks, Jr. was an American ice hockey player and coach. He notably coached the United States' men's hockey team to a 4-3 upset of the heavily favored Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York on February 22, 1980...

, the 1980 USA men's Olympic

Olympic Games

The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

 hockey coach, became the coach of the Huskies and helped St. Cloud State hockey team achieve Division I status. He also helped lead efforts to build the National Hockey Center

National Hockey Center

The National Hockey Center is a 5,763-seat hockey arena in St. Cloud, Minnesota. It is home to the St. Cloud State University Huskies men's & women's ice hockey teams, and the Saint John's University Johnnies ice hockey team. The main rink is now named for former SCSU President Brendan J....

. A small street near the National Hockey Center was named for Brooks shortly after his death.

Notable alumni

• Van Nelson - 1968 Olympic Track and Field Athlete. 5k and 10k winner at the 1967 Pan American Games.
• Tyler Arnason
  Tyler Arnason
  Tyler Arnason is an American professional ice hockey center who is currently a Free Agent. He most recently played with the Texas Stars of the American Hockey League. He has previously played in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Blackhawks, Ottawa Senators and the Colorado...
  
   - Professional hockey player
• Todd Bouman
  Todd Bouman
  Todd Bouman is an American football quarterback who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Minnesota Vikings as an undrafted free agent in 1997. He played college football at St. Cloud State....
  
   - National Football League quarterback, Jacksonville Jaguars
  Jacksonville Jaguars
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• Dick Bremer
  Dick Bremer
  Richard J. Bremer is a sports broadcaster for Fox Sports North. He does the play-by-play announcing for the Minnesota Twins and Minnesota Gophers men's basketball and other Minnesota sports...
  
   - Minnesota Twins
  Minnesota Twins
  The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. They played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and the...
  
   television play-by-play
• James B. Bullard
  James B. Bullard
  James B. Bullard is the 12th president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He is currently serving a term that began on March 1, 2011. Dr. Bullard succeeded William Poole as president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank on April 1, 2008....
  
   - President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis
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• Matt Cullen
  Matt Cullen
  Matthew David Cullen is a professional ice hockey center, who currently is an alternate captain of the Minnesota Wild of the NHL.-Playing career:...
  
   - Professional hockey player, Stanley Cup winner, Minnesota Wild
  Minnesota Wild
  The Minnesota Wild are a professional ice hockey team based in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
  
  
• Jim Eisenreich
  Jim Eisenreich
  James Michael Eisenreich is an American former Major League Baseball player with a 15-year career from 1982–1984 and 1987–1998. He played for the Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Royals of the American League, and the Philadelphia Phillies, Florida Marlins and Los Angeles Dodgers of the National...
  
   - Former MLB outfielder/first baseman with Tourette syndrome
  Tourette syndrome
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• Jeff Finger
  Jeff Finger
  Jeff Finger is an American professional ice hockey defenseman currently playing for the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League.-Playing career:...
  
   - Professional hockey player, AHL
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  The American Hockey League is a 30-team professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental circuit for the National Hockey League...
  
   Toronto Marlies
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• Andrew Gordon
  Andrew Gordon (ice hockey)
  Andrew Gordon is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger in the Anaheim Ducks system.-Playing career:Gordon began his career with the Notre Dame Hounds of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League. In 2004, he was drafted by the Washington Capitals...
  
   - Professional hockey player with the Hershey Bears/Washington Capitals
• Mark Hartigan
  Mark Hartigan
  Mark Hartigan is a professional ice hockey centre, currently playing for the Dinamo Riga. He now lives in Plymouth, Minnesota.-Playing career:...
  
   - Professional hockey player, HC CSKA Moscow
  HC CSKA Moscow
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• John Hawkes
  John Hawkes (actor)
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   - Film and television actor
• Bret Hedican
  Bret Hedican
  Bret Michael Hedican is a retired American professional ice hockey player and a two-time US Olympian.-Playing career:Hedican was drafted 198th overall by the St. Louis Blues in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft. A product of St. Cloud State University, Hedican made his NHL debut in the 1991–92 season with...
  
   - Former professional hockey player, Olympian and Stanley Cup winner.
• Lawrence Heinemi
  Lawrence Heinemi
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   - Professional wrestler who competed as Lars Anderson
• Matt Hendricks
  Matt Hendricks
  Matthew J. Hendricks is an American ice hockey forward who is currently playing with the Washington Capitals of the NHL.-Playing career:...
  
   - Professional hockey player, Washington Capitals
  Washington Capitals
  The Washington Capitals are a professional ice hockey team based in Washington, D.C. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Since their founding in 1974, "The Caps" have won one conference championship to reach the 1998 Stanley Cup...
  
  
• Bonnie Henrickson
  Bonnie Henrickson
  Bonnie Henrickson is the head women's college basketball coach at the University of Kansas. She was born in Willmar, Minnesota, and attended St. Cloud State University where she graduated in 1986...
  
   - University of Kansas women's basketball head coach
• Jodi Huisentruit
  Jodi Huisentruit
  Jodi Sue Huisentruit was a television news anchor for KIMT, based in Mason City, Iowa in the United States. She disappeared in the early morning hours of June 27, 1995 and is believed to have been abducted. She was 27 years old at the time.-Early life:Huisentruit grew up in Long Prairie, Minnesota...
  
   - Former television news anchor who went missing June 27, 1995
• Bruce Hyde - An actor who played Lt. Kevin Reilly on two episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series
  Star Trek: The Original Series
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• Jessica Kresa
  Jessica Kresa
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   - TNA
  TNA
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   professional wrestler known as ODB
• Leo Kottke
  Leo Kottke
  Leo Kottke is an acoustic guitarist. He is widely known for his innovative fingerpicking style, which draws on influences from blues, jazz, and folk music, and his syncopated, polyphonic melodies...
  
   - Fingerstyle acoustic guitar virtuoso with a four-decades long recording career
• Ryan Malone
  Ryan Malone
  Ryan Malone is an American professional ice hockey forward currently playing for the Tampa Bay Lightning in the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
  
   - Professional hockey player, Tampa Bay Lightning
  Tampa Bay Lightning
  The Tampa Bay Lightning are a professional ice hockey team based in Tampa, Florida. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . They have one Stanley Cup championship in their history, in 2003–04. They are often referred to as the...
  
  
• Bob Motzko
  Bob Motzko
  Bob Motzko is the head coach of the St. Cloud State University Huskies hockey team in St. Cloud, Minnesota. He was named the WCHA Coach of the Year in 2006 and again in 2007. He has guided the Huskies to four WCHA Final Five appearances , and three NCAA Division I tournament appearances in 2007,...
  
   - Men's hockey head coach at St. Cloud State
• Joe Motzko
  Joe Motzko
  Joseph Andrew Motzko is an American ice hockey forward currently with ERC Ingolstadt of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.-Playing career:...
  
   - Professional hockey player
• Harold J. Nevin, Jr.
  Harold J. Nevin, Jr.
  Harold J. Nevin is a retired Brigadier General in the National Guard of the United States and former Assistant Adjutant General for Readiness and Training of the Wisconsin Army National Guard.-Education:*Graduate - United States Army Officer Candidate School...
  
  , U.S. National Guard general
• Andreas Nödl
  Andreas Nödl
  Andreas Nödl is an Austrian professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
  
   - Professional hockey player, Philadelphia Flyers
  Philadelphia Flyers
  The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Mark Parrish
  Mark Parrish
  Mark Daniel Parrish is an American professional ice hockey right winger in the Ottawa Senators organization. He has played 10 seasons in the NHL for the Florida Panthers, New York Islanders, Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota Wild, Dallas Stars, Tampa Bay Lightning and Buffalo Sabres-Playing...
  
   - Professional hockey player, Buffalo Sabres
  Buffalo Sabres
  The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League .-Founding and early success: 1970-71—1980-81:...
  
  
• John Stumpf
  John Stumpf
  John Stumpf became Chairman for Wells Fargo & Company in January 2010. He was named Chief Executive Officer in June 2007, elected to Wells Fargo’s Board of Directors in June 2006, and has been President since August 2005....
  
   - Chief executive officer of Wells Fargo & Company
• David Swanson - former chief executive officer of R.H. Donnelley Publishing/Dex One (Dex Yellow Pages)
• H. Timothy ("Tim") Vakoc
  Tim Vakoc
  Henry Timothy "Tim" Vakoc was a Roman Catholic priest and a United States Army chaplain during the Iraq War, attaining the rank of major. Vakoc was the first U.S. military chaplain to die from wounds received in the Iraq War...
  
   – the first U.S. military chaplain to die from wounds received in the Iraq War.
• Steve Martinson
  Steve Martinson
  Steven Martinson is a retired American professional ice hockey player. He played in 50 NHL games with the Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, and Minnesota North Stars over parts of four seasons...
  
   - Retired professional hockey player, current professional hockey head coach (Chicago Express)

Notable Faculty and Staff

• Herb Brooks
  Herb Brooks
  Herbert Paul Brooks, Jr. was an American ice hockey player and coach. He notably coached the United States' men's hockey team to a 4-3 upset of the heavily favored Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York on February 22, 1980...
  
  , former St. Cloud State and U.S. Olympic Men's hockey coach
• Bruce Hyde, original cast member of the American TV show Star Trek
• Christopher Lehman, author of history books on African Americans
• Mary Wingerd, author and Minnesota historian
• John Harlander, designer of optical spectrometers used in near-space research
• Heiko Schoenfuss, expert on the effects of man-made contaminants in lakes and streams

Presidents of St. Cloud State

External links

• St. Cloud State website
• St. Cloud State mobile website
• Home of Husky Athletics
• MBA program at St. Cloud State
• University Chronicle, the student newspaper
• 88.1 FM KVSC, a student-run educational public radio station.
• UTVS-TV, a student-run educational public television station.
• Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference
• Western Collegiate Hockey Association