The risk that one MnSCU trustee was willing to overlook

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities trustee James Van Houten tells MPR’s Tim Post why the choice of Steven Rosenstone for chancellor was very risky:

My concern is if there’s a big learning curve to get ready to carry out whatever those visions would be, they’re not going to be implemented very quickly. I think the board just has to be aware that we need a different style with this particular choice.

(Van Houten ended up voting for Rosenstone.)

Read Post’s story here.

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Alex Friedrich

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Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.