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FACULTY & STAFF E-UPDATE |
This is a reminder that ALL employees are required to submit their monthly timesheets by the designated deadline each month to ensure timely and accurate payroll processing. A quick guide can be found on the experience portal: SDBOR Employee Dashboard Quick Guide - Timesheets.
If you supervise student employees, please be sure to clearly communicate timesheet submission deadlines to them and confirm their timesheets are accurate and submitted on time.
Thank you for your attention to this requirement and for your continued cooperation. Please reach out to the System Payroll Center (PayrollSSC@sdstate.edu) for assistance or questions.
Congratulations to our newly promoted team members!
We appreciate their continued commitment and look forward to supporting them as they take on these important leadership roles.
Come support the Lakota Omniciye Indian Taco Sale fundraiser.
Tacos will be sold 02/04/2026 under the BHSU Student Union bookstore at 11 am until sold out.
All proceeds will support the annual Wacipi held in April 18th, 2026. Thank you!
The BHSU Alumni Association is sponsoring the 35th annual Spirit of BH Award and is requesting nominations for this year's recipient. This award will be presented during the Student Volunteer Awards Celebration on Monday, April 20th.
On behalf of the Alumni Association, I am requesting your help to identify a student who has demonstrated an enthusiasm for learning while making significant contributions that reflect favorably on the university and larger community. The selection committee is made up of faculty, staff, and board members.
Please use this nomination form. Deadline to submit an entry for the Spirit of BH Award is Tuesday, March 10th.
Looking for support as you get started with exercise or have questions about gym equipment? The Exercise Is Medicine® on Campus internship program at BHSU is here to help! Led by Exercise Science students, this program puts classroom learning into action by offering free, one-on-one assistance in the gym.
What we can help with:
Getting started with exercise
Spotting
Blood pressure and heart rate checks
Equipment assistance
General exercise questions
Available hours:
Monday: 2:00–3:30 PM
Tuesday: 8:00–11:00 AM & 3:00–7:00 PM
Wednesday: 2:00–5:30 PM
Thursday: 8:00 AM–1:00 PM
Friday: 9:00 AM–1:00 PM
Follow @BHSU_EXERCISESCIENCE on Instagram for more information and updates.
Come see how exercise is medicine, right here on campus!
Two options; both via Zoom.
Learn more about Panopto at BHSU here: Panopto learning tool is coming to BHSU
Assistant Director, Taylor Phillips, will be departing the BHSU Office of Admissions team this week. She'll be moving on to a great new opportunity in the Rapid City area.
On behalf of the entire Admissions team, we want to thank Taylor for her years of dedicated service to BHSU - she has made a very real difference and will be greatly missed!
Please join us in the Admissions Office (Woodburn 107) from 3:00-4:00PM this Friday, February 6th to wish Taylor well and enjoy some light snacks.
Please join us on Mondays at 4:00 p.m. in Jonas 110.
(We're also looking for Geek Speakers for fall 2026, too, so please send a note my way if you're interested.
February 9: Ezekiel Bucks: “The History and Impact of the Typewriter: An Analogue History.”
Come and look at some amazing relics from our analogue past! There will be real typewriters on display during this presentation to help connect with a piece of technology that used to rule the world but has become obsolete in less than a century. If you happen to own a typewriter, please bring it to show it off and to learn more about it! Let’s turn Jonas 110 into a LOUD, clicky, clacky newsroom! Together we’ll explore the development of the typewriter during the industrial revolution, its wide acceptance and standardization, and the way it affected society and culture in the twentieth century. The typewriter has had a substantial yet overlooked role in the development of digital technology we take for granted today.
February 23: Dr. Lesleigh Owen: “Race: A Very Serious Fiction”
Spoiler: It’s All Made Up (and Why That Still Matters)
How many racial categories do we recognize in the U.S.? Isn’t “ethnicity” just the PC way to say “race”? What the heck does “Caucasian” mean, anyway? Join Dr. Lesleigh Owen as she hops feet first into the messiness, ridiculousness, and consequences of pretending we can divide human beings into distinct “racial” subcategories.
March 2: Dr. Katelyn Kelly: “The Girl at the Edge of the World: What Miyazaki Can Offer Us on Hope”
In a world increasingly unreal and precarious, many to turn to realism or pessimism to stay grounded. However, these frames rarely help us imagine alternatives. In this talk we’ll explore what it might mean to ground ourselves in hope instead. We will look to the animator Hayao Miyazaki and his use of an active demanding hope. His movies hold beauty and violence–ruin and small acts of care–and the young as a model of hope within a damaged world.
March 9: Rosalie Aslesen and Katherine Kemp: “Transitioning the Meier House and Property into the Spearfish Museum”
This Geek Speak presents the dream for a community-run Spearfish Museum and will introduce you to the people fundraising for the project. Hear about their vision for how this museum can contribute to the city of Spearfish and why it matters now.
The Spearfish Museum is an emerging project that will transform the historic Meier House and its property into a museum celebrating the stories, people, and ingenuity that shaped the Spearfish area. Its mission is to acquire, preserve, and share the historic, cultural, and innovative spirit of Spearfish. The goal is to create a museum that feels engaging, memorable, and meaningful for residents, students, and visitors.
The Museum Board’s fundraising mission is to build on the $1.5M+ bequest from Johanna Meier Della Vecchia by rallying community support and raising the matching funds needed to open the museum within the next 4–6 years.
Ultimately, the vision is simple: a museum built by the community, for the community—one that tells Spearfish’s story and strengthens its future.
March 23: Dr. Tina Van Kley:“Hitler's British Fangirl: Unity Mitford and the Appeals of Fascism”
Unity Mitford was an English debutante in the 1930s, the youngest daughter of a minor British aristocrat. Her name is not one that most Americans are likely to know, unless you’ve seen the recent UK tv series Outrageous (2025). Her story is wild, however, and she is infamous for her commitment to fascism and, most notably, her obsession with Adolf Hitler. At one point, she was rumored to be his fiancée and is thought to have met with him more often than any other British person. Her diaries from 1935-1939 were published in January 2025 in The Daily Mail, and offer new insights into her pursuit of “the dear Fuhrer,” as she referred to Hitler. More broadly, her diaries and letters shed light on the appeal of fascism to young women at the time, and can help us better understand the resilience of this ideology, even after WWII.
March 30: Greg Strobel: “Slow Tourism and Human Powered Travel”
This Geek Speak will discuss the concept of 'Slow Tourism' and emphasize human powered travel as the method for the concept. It will provide insight into understanding the mindset, introduce different methods of travel, and highlight some fun examples from personal experience.
April 13: Dr. Courtney Huse Wika (Please note the change in date): “A Poet’s Guide to Foraging: Creating Found Poetry”
In honor of National Poetry Month, this hands-on workshop will introduce the art of Found Poetry. Together, we’ll practice two distinct approaches, foraging from texts that already exist: the overheard, the discarded, the official and the everyday, and the overlooked. We will test how meaning shifts when language is lifted, reordered, and reframed. No prior experience is required. Bring yourself (and maybe a friend!)—and a desire to create.
Questions? Contact Courtney.HuseWika@BHSU.edu
Please join us in welcoming Hailey Broders and Daisy Ramirez to BHSU! Hailey began her role on January 26th as a Financial Aid Assistant, and Daisy started her position as Program Assistant I - Sim Civic Grant on the 26th as well! We’re excited to have them both on board and look forward to the positive impacts they will bring to our students and campus community!
Come support the Lakota Omniciye Indian Taco Sale fundraiser.
Tacos will be sold 02/04/2026 under the BHSU Student Union bookstore at 11 am until sold out.
All proceeds will support the annual Wacipi held in April 18th, 2026. Thank you!
BHSU Blood Drive! - All blood types are needed, you don't need to know your blood type. Bring a picture ID. Bring a friend and donate together!
WHEN: Wednesday, February 4th from 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
WHERE: Jacket Legacy Room (3rd floor of Student Union)
Walk-ins are welcome, but you can schedule an appointment at www.Donors.Vitalant.org with Blood Drive Code: BHSU
BHSU will be hosting the Spearfish Middle School Science Fair on Wednesday, February 11 in the Young Center Field House. We need volunteers to help judge the students' projects. Students, faculty, and staff are welcome to judge. No science expertise is needed to be a judge. Please complete the form in this link to sign up: https://forms.gle/LFjJnewpVhCwBKmp7
Each judging session is 1 hour long. Please plan to arrive at the field house 10-15 minutes before your first judging session to receive assignments and instructions. You may sign up for multiple sessions. The session schedule is as follows:
8:30-9:30 AM 6th Grade
9:30-10:30 AM 6th Grade
10:30-11:30 AM 8th Grade
11:30 AM-12:30 PM 8th Grade
12:30-1:30 PM 7th Grade
1:30-2:30 PM 7th Grade
Thank you for helping make the Science Fair a successful event!
Greetings.
Our new system for BHSU Disabilty Services, JacketAccommodate, is up and running. At the following link you will find PDF handouts that will assist with accessing the system and signing accommodation letters. https://support.bhsu.edu/TDClient/30/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=657
We are hopeful this new system will streamline the process and allow for ease in accessing letters. I am here to assist with any questions and/or concerns, do not hesitate to reach out to me directly.