Tickets for Bemidji State's 45th Annual Madrigal Dinners are now on sale at the Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex Madrigal Dinners ticket office.

Performances of this Yuletide tradition of northern Minnesota will be held Friday through Sunday, Dec. 6-8, and Friday and Saturday, Dec. 13-14, in the Beaux Arts Ballroom in Bemidji State’s upper Hobson Memorial Union.

This year’s Madrigal Dinners production features a new, completely renovated set.

The Madrigal Dinners box office, located in Bangsberg 223, is open from 8 a.m. to noon and from 1-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Tickets also are available online.

Bemidji State's online programs have been ranked among Minnesota’s most affordable in a survey by AffordableCollegesOnline.org.

The organization focused specifically on distance learning options from public and private non-profit institutions with full accreditation. It ranked 27 schools in Minnesota based on tuition levels, and Bemidji State ranked sixth.
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In the spring of 2011, Bemidji State University placed itself ahead of what has become a broad debate on electronic nicotine delivery systems by banning on-campus use of e-cigarette devices as part of its tobacco-free policy.

That forward-looking move was part of the university’s student-driven effort to join hundreds of colleges and universities across the country by going completely tobacco-free.

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Vincent Staples-Graves has been named Bemidji State's recipient of the Mark Welter World Citizen Award by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.

Graves, a junior from Bemidji majoring in social studies education and Indian studies, was one of 20 students across the MnSCU system to receive the $500 awards.
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