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<strong>Minnesota State University Mankato Awards Degrees </strong>
Minnesota State University Mankato awarded 2,367 degrees to 2,294 students at the end of the spring 2020 semester, with this spring’s graduates celebrated through a special website that launched Saturday, May 9, the day on which the University’s three traditional graduation ceremonies were scheduled but cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Each graduate also received personalized URL video messages by email on May 9, and “commencement-in-a-box” packages were shipped to each graduate the week before graduation. More information about the Minnesota State Mankato spring 2020 commencement is available at http://mnsu.edu/mavgrad2020.
Students from our area receiving degrees include: <strong>Brandon Bailey</strong>, Belleville, BS, Management; <strong>Brooke Larson</strong>, Belleville, BS, Marketing; and <strong>Jacqueline Burgess</strong>, New Glarus, BS, Dental Hygiene, Summa Cum Laude.
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New Glarus’s Zimmerman Named 2019-20 UW-Whitewater Chancellor’s Scholar-Athlete</strong>
<strong>Landon Zimmerman</strong>, a native of New Glarus and graduate of New Glarus High School and member of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater men’s track and field team, is one of 67 Warhawks to be recognized as 2019-20 Chancellor’s Scholar-Athletes by the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and Chancellor Dwight C. Watson. Zimmerman is majoring in Accounting at UW-Whitewater.
To be recognized as Scholar-Athletes, student-athletes must have maintained a 3.25 cumulative grade point average or above through the end of the 2019 fall semester. Honorees must have participated in a varsity sport for two years, must be of senior academic status and must have accumulated at least 90 degree credits.
The 67 student-athletes recognized in 2019-20 are the most in the history of the Chancellor’s Scholar-Athlete program.
Please visit https://uwwsports.com/news/2020/5/13/general-sixty-seven-recognized-as-c... for the complete list of honorees by sport.