The Graduate Bulletin 2012 university parking lots, academic buildings, residence halls, and the campus grounds 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A major responsibility of the Public Safety Department is educating the university community to realize that protection of self and property is everyone’s concern. To this end, the Public Safety staff conducts various crime prevention programs covering such topics as personal safety, bike safety, and fire safety. The Public Safety Department is responsible for completing the Annual Campus Crime Report. The report also contains policies and procedures concerning safety and security on the campus of Minnesota State University Moorhead. Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Annual Campus Crime Report is available online at www.mnstate.edu/security. This report contains the statistics for the previous three years of reported crimes that occurred on campus; in buildings or property owned or controlled by the University; and on public property within, or immediately adjacent to the campus and reported to the University, Clay County Sheriff’s Department, or the Moorhead Police Department. If you are unable to access this report and want a printed copy, or have other concerns about this report, please contact the Director of Security, Minnesota State University Moorhead, 1616 9th Avenue South, Moorhead, MN 56563 or call (218) 477-5869. Minnesota State University Moorhead enjoys a close working relationship with the Moorhead Police Department and the Clay County Sheriff’s Department. City police officers frequently patrol the parking lots and will occasionally walk through campus buildings.
Facilities and Services Feder Telescope Observatory. The observatory is used by astronomy classes as well as in asteroid research. The Planetarium located in Bridges Hall 167 and containing a Spitz 512 Projector, provides an environment for observing the appearance and motions of the sky at various seasons and from different locations. In addition to the primary star projector, auxiliary projectors and equipment are used to produce a variety of additional effects leading realism and atmosphere to the presentations. The planetarium is used extensively by astronomy classes. It also provides programs for elementary and secondary school classes and for the general public. University students are involved in the Regional Science Center as Honors Apprentices, part-time employees, and volunteers. Students have an opportunity to develop many skills working with the Center, including working on our natural history projects, teaching K-12 students in an outdoor setting, and/or in delivering planetarium programs.
Residence Halls MSUM houses nearly 2,000 students in its six residence halls and one apartment building. Student attendants, known as Resident Assistants, play a huge role working with University management to supervise close to 50 students per floor in the residence halls. Rooms come with some furnishings and amenities such as a bed, cable television and Internet. Students bring personal items, linens, blankets, towels, pillows, and decorations. Facility improvements and maintenance are continuous.
Regional Science Center
The John Neumaier Hall apartment building houses 144 students. Apartments come with kitchen, dining table and four chairs, dishwasher, two bedrooms (two beds per room), two full bathrooms, four desks with chairs, and electric furnace for air conditioning and heating. John Neumaier residents pay electricity per apartment.
The Regional Science Center provides programs at two sites: The Buffalo River Site, which is a 300-acre outdoor classroom that is part of a 5,000 acre tallgrass prairie field station, 16 miles east of Moorhead on Highway 10, and the Planetarium which is located on the MSUM campus.
University Area Directors live on campus and supervise facility staff and services full-time. Housing Desk Managers and Resident Assistants, along with the halls’ student government organizations, plan and coordinate social, recreational, and cultural activities.
The Buffalo River Site provides outreach programs in natural history to area K-12 students. The Buffalo River Site is also used as a field site for university level field science courses and for field-based research. The site is also the location of the Paul P.
Student Housing Capacity Ballard Hall (Built in 1950) Dahl Hall (Built in 1958) Snarr Hall (Built in 1963-1967) Grantham Hall (Built in 1965) Nelson Hall (Built in 1966)
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