How Minnesota has changed its views on funding higher ed

"In those days we acted like a nation that looked out for one another, and we prospered together. Today we act more like a pack of wolves, except that wolves do not eat their young."

-- Southwest Minnesota State University associate history professor Jeff Kolnick in a MinnPost essay on how America and Minnesota are crying poor to mask their refusal to fund higher education adequately.

Read his full commentary here.

 

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