Here’s what University of Minnesota regent Steve Sviggum told me yesterday about a university committee’s decision last year to not allow him to be both a regent and a Humphrey School of Public Affairs fellow: “I think it was wrong. I think if you would have pressed it, there was no prohibition to being a Read more →
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// To fund programs in an era of tight finances, the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs is using a model that may be a bit unusual in the academic world of public policy: the self-funded fellow. The salaries and benefits of the school’s 30-plus tenured and tenure-track faculty are funded by the Read more →
Just got this from the U: Humphrey School to announce Oberstar scholarship at the University of Minnesota What: Announcement of the creation of the James L. Oberstar Fellowship When: 2:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 19 Where: Humphrey Forum, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 301 19th Ave. S., Minneapolis On Monday, Sept. 19, the University of Minnesota Read more →
This just in from the U: Eric P. Schwartz named dean of University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs Schwartz will apparently replace interim dean Greg H. Lindsey, a Humphrey professor who was also going for the job. The official announcement: University of Minnesota Provost Tom Sullivan today named Eric P. Schwartz, assistant secretary Read more →
Just got this from the University of Minnesota: Tom Sullivan, the University of Minnesota’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, today appointed a committee to begin the search for a new dean for the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. In January 2011, current dean Brian Atwood will take leave from the university to Read more →
“It’s definitely not a full-time thing. It’s not like he’s coming in as a professor, but he’s very interested in some role. He has this rich history in transportation and we wanted to tap into that.” – Lee Munnich, director of the Humphrey Institute’s State and Local Policy Program at the University of Minnesota, explaining Read more →