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Campus stories with Maverick context.
KMSU Minnesota State Mankato Stories follows the practical life of Minnesota State University, Mankato through interviews, campus features, and event previews. It treats alumni gatherings, student leadership, theater, health, international recruitment, journalism history, and Maverick athletics as parts of one civic campus story.
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KMSU Minnesota State Mankato Stories is a local campus chronicle built from interviews, features, and event conversations at Minnesota State University, Mankato. It is practical first. The show often begins with a simple question: what is happening, who is involved, and why should the Maverick community care? From there, it gives guests enough room to explain the details. A counselor fly-in becomes more than a recruitment update, because Alyssa Morrison describes how international counselors need to see classrooms, services, residential life, health services, Mankato itself, and the wider campus environment before guiding students from abroad. Alumni coverage is similarly concrete. A conversation about an exclusive Maverick event at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres covers the show, the venue, registration, scholarships, student engagement ambassadors, and the pleasure of alumni reconnecting in a Minnesota setting. Performing arts episodes keep the same useful shape. A preview of Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka talks through dates, music, family fit, community sponsorship, costumes, scenery, and the experience of seeing student theater on campus. The show also has a strong institutional-memory streak. Its episode on The Reporter follows Kelly Flink's work selecting 22 front pages from a century of student journalism, turning an archive project into a story about student voice and changing campus identity. Student life is treated seriously without becoming grandiose. Leadership Live is framed as a program for all students, with topics like burnout, stress, finances, culture shock, and diversity presented as part of everyday leadership rather than future resume polish. Health coverage reaches beyond campus walls. Brooke Burke's Health Summit segment connects mental health, trauma, rural youth, food systems, education, health care, safe places to play, and interprofessional practice. The sports stories carry a personal charge. Sherry Dickerman's Olympic gold reflection gives the show one of its more emotional arcs, moving from being cut from the 2006 Olympic team to helping Team USA win as an assistant coach. Even then, the show stays grounded in work, memory, and what the experience means back at MSU. It is not flashy audio. It is careful, civic-minded storytelling for people who want the campus explained through its people.
Made for: For MSU Mankato students, alumni, staff, families, and community members who want clear, useful stories about campus life. It also suits listeners interested in higher education, student development, local arts, rural health, and university athletics.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by treating routine campus announcements as small civic stories, adding enough interview context to show how each event or program fits into student life, alumni connection, and the Mankato community.
Discover exciting things that are happening at Minnesota State University, Mankato and find out what it means to be a Maverick.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Campus interviews make research, public policy, and university decisions understandable by following specialist knowledge through to its practical consequences.
KMSU Minnesota State Mankato Stories turns campus interviews into clear introductions to research, teaching, public policy, and university life. The host begins with basic questions, then stays with a guest long enough to connect specialist work to practical consequences.
Campus radio turns disability policy, cancer cells, and copper mining into questions you would actually ask.
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A steady case for replacing Armstrong Hall and preserving the campus learning and support it anchors.
President Dr. Edward Inch makes a firm case for replacing Armstrong Hall, linking the building's condition to the university's long-term needs and to state legislative funding.
A steady, accessible case for protecting the Boundary Waters.
This episode makes a steady case for the Boundary Waters and for the concern that still follows sulfide ore copper mining. Ingrid Lyons is presented as both the executive director of Save the Boundary Waters and someone with a long personal tie to the place, which gives the…
A measured interview that treats Native terminology as a live question, not a settled label.
The conversation starts with a campus book event, then turns to a harder question: how Native identity gets named, and where those labels break down.
A steady case for prevention, power, and disability safety.
This episode argues that the real danger is not disability itself, but the systems that leave people with intellectual disabilities less informed, less included, and less protected.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
Naval Ravikant on epistemology, startups, and crypto, from David Deutsch to Vitalik Buterin.
Alex Theuma interviews SaaS founders and investors on scaling to $10M-plus ARR.
Guy Raz traces founders' origin stories and fields live advice-line calls from entrepreneurs.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
This episode discusses MSU's fly-in program that brings high school career counselors from six countries to campus to showcase the university's offerings and build a global recruitment network.
This episode promotes an exclusive alumni event at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres featuring the play Guys and Dolls, organized by Minnesota State University, Mankato's Alumni Affairs Office.
This episode features an interview with Corey Eggerman from the MSU Department of Theater and Dance discussing the upcoming musical production of Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka, including performance dates, sponsorship details, and its family-friendly nature.
This episode features an interview with MSU student Kelly Flink about her curation of an exhibit celebrating the 100th anniversary of the university's student-run newspaper, showcasing 22 front pages from its history.
This episode discusses the Leadership Live program at MSU, which helps students develop personal leadership skills through interactive sessions on topics like burnout and stress.
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Ingrid Lyons joins the program to discuss threats to the Boundary Waters and a geography colloquium at Minnesota State.
Minnesota State University's Common Read interview frames Anton Troyer and his book.
Karen Wright talks with social work professor Nancy Fitzsimons about her book, Flipping the Story on Disability and Violence, People with Intellectual Disability and Allies Leading the Change, and why the usual explanation for violence against people with intellectual disabilities misses the point.
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This episode features an interview with Maha Abouelenein, a global communications expert and entrepreneur, discussing her background, career, and her book 'The Seven Rules of Self-Reliance'.
This episode features an interview with psychologist Keith Payne about his book 'The Broken Ladder' on inequality's psychological effects, discussing its selection for Minnesota State University's common read program.
A discussion with student activist Cole Koetz and director Jameel Haque about bringing a resolution to student government regarding campus activism related to Gaza and Palestine.