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University News
- “Disclosing Disclosure Day”: Music Faculty Member Explores Blockbuster Score
- Bemidji State Nursing Grads Lead Minnesota in Success on National Licensing Exam
- New and Reimagined Programs at BSU Support Student and Regional Workforce Needs
- More Than 400 BSU Students Earn President’s Honor Roll Honors for Spring 2026
- More Than 600 BSU Students Earn Dean’s List Honors for Spring 2026
- School of Music’s Opera Night Gala Again Delivers Opportunity and Excellence
- Bemidji State University Celebrates its Graduating Class of 2026
- BSU’s 107th Commencement: Mortar Board Gallery
- Brent Larson to Address Graduates at BSU’s 107th Commencement, May 8
- $8.1M Gift Establishes the Sunderman College of Creativity, Enterprise and Place
Beaver Athletics
- Men’s Golf earns seventh consecutive GCAA Team Academic Award
- Bemidji State Soccer adds veteran coach Ryan Raufus to soccer staff
- Volleyball takes 13th in NSIC Preseason Coaches’ Poll
- Four Beavers recognized by GCAA as All-America Scholars
- Beaver Football slated seventh in NSIC Preseason Coaches Poll
- Three current and former Beavers named to 2026 U.S. Women’s National Festival Staff Roster
- Bemidji State Athletics launches ‘Beaver Brew’ for fans to support student-athletes
- Volleyball earns AVCA 2026 Team Academic Award
- The staff leading Beaver Football into Season 100
- Track and Field earns USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honors
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Alumni & Foundation partners with FreeWill for estate planning, free will documentation
The Alumni & Foundation has partnered with FreeWill to offer free planned giving resources to alumni and friends, including legally binding will documentation.
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Who We Are
Our alumni body of more than 50,000 Beavers started with just four students who earned their diplomas in June 1920.
Two years later, the BSU Alumni & Foundation was formed at Sanford Hall in conjunction with that year's graduation. Then an all-female body, it was first called the Bemidji State Teachers College Alumnae Association before being renamed to the Alumni Association in 1927. The BSU Foundation was founded in 1969 as a separate, nonprofit entity. In 2016, the separate Alumni Association board and the BSU Foundation board merged to establish the Bemidji State Alumni & Foundation.
