Why setting up a MnSCU endowment is tricky
"The University of Minnesota is lucky (to be independent from the legislature). I’ve tried to set up scholastic endowment for MnSCU -- but as soon as we’d set it up we’d steal it from them."
-- Rep. Tom Rukavina (DFL-Virginia) on politicians' habit of using higher-education appropriations for other purposes.
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