Support for Rural Teachers & Teachers of Color

Bemidji State University’s School of Education received grant funding to recruit and support future teachers. This includes adding a high school concurrent enrollment course and funding to support teacher candidates of color. We would like to express our gratitude to the Collaborative Urban and Greater Minnesota Educators of Color Grant (CUGMEC) and the Rural Schools Collaborative Grant. These grants will be implemented under the new Amikwiish initiative to support rural teachers and teachers of color. Amikwiish is an Ojibwe word meaning a beaver lodge.

For more information, visit our Amikwiish page.

Contact: Amikwiish@bemidjistate.edu

2nd Annual Diverse Texts Conference

Bemidji State University’s School of Education received grant funding from the Minnesota Humanities Center to support their 2nd annual Diverse Texts Conference. Thanks to this grant funding we are able to provide the conference for FREE! This work is funded in part by MHC with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.

The Diverse Texts Conference will be held on the BSU campus on July 23rd from 8am-3:30pm.

Register for the Diverse Texts Conference today!

BSU receives 2023-2024 Catalyst Initiative Grant:

As part of Bemidji State University’s five-year strategic plan, “Inspired by Place, Enriched by Diversity,” the School of Education at BSU is hoping to better engage and empower aspiring teachers in the Anishinaabe American Indian communities, on whose ancestral home BSU is located. The teacher corps will seek to accomplish this through a network of peer and school mentors, and funded opportunities to visit BSU’s campus.