Kennedy Meyer
newsMay 6, 2019
Southeast’s enrollment suffers after 18 years of growthFor the last four years, Southeast Missouri State has experienced a decline in its number of students. It comes on the heels of 20 consecutive years of increased enrollment. There are a few things that have led to the decline in enrollment including lower birth rat...
newsApril 30, 2019
Vacant faculty positions and failed job searches root problems for the universityCurrently posted on Southeast’s official website is just under 50 job listings for both faculty and staff — the majority of them being vacant faculty positions. In 2017, and more recently in January 2019, Southeast launched two voluntary retirement buyouts. The Vol...
newsApril 30, 2019
Wood remains popular choice for leadershipDiane Wood has not only spent 16 years at Southeast in the Biology Department, but she has a history of being active in Faculty Senate, both on the executive board and as a representative. People have told her of the impact her voice has on the campus, but she said...
newsApril 16, 2019
When it rains it poursIt seems, hundred-year floods are becoming a common occurrence in Cape Girardeau and other places around the nation. According to Kellerman Foundation for Historic Preservation historian Frank Nickell, a retired professor of history at Southeast, the Mississippi Ri...
newsApril 2, 2019
Second voluntary retirement program underway at SoutheastSoutheast is in the midst of its second Voluntary Retirement Incentive Program (VRIP) in three years after there were no plans for another one in 2017. A plan was originally implemented in 2017 with the intention of it being a one-time program, but similar programs...
newsApril 1, 2019
Faculty Senate discusses 5-Year Academic CalendarFaculty Senate voted to support a proposal from Southeast president Carlos Vargas to shorten Thanksgiving break and add a two-day fall break during its meeting March 27. In 2015, Southeast ended its two-day fall break and added a weeklong Thanksgiving break to acco...
entertainmentApril 1, 2019
Alger Designs: dance instructor doubles as small business ownerBesides being an instructor of dance at the River Campus, Alyssa Alger has a business she owns and operates from her home designing and making leotards. Alger Designs provides numerous vibrant and detailed leotards for dancers locally and internationally. While she...
featuresMarch 4, 2019
Senior Kaetlin Lamberson aims to lobby for the arts in MissouriSoutheast dance major and political science minor Kaetlin Lamberson has had her mind set on lobbying for the arts in government since she was a senior in high school, and her college years have been devoted to that goal. The Poplar Bluff, Missouri, native has a pas...
newsFebruary 18, 2019
Ready, Set, BuildAfter 16 years on the road with Disney on Ice, Matthew Buttrey returned to Southeast to finish his undergraduate degree in theatre technology, got his master’s from the University of Maryland, and now lives in New York doing freelance set-design work across the nat...
newsFebruary 18, 2019
SupportNET helps strengthen campus communicationSupportNET is a new online program that connects Southeast students with faculty, staff and other services on campus such as the Writing Center and Textbook Rental. Coordinator of online advising Leah Michel said she would describe SupportNET as software that helps...Advertisement
