Setting up camp across town “It will be the biggest thing we’ve done since this campus.”
— Metropolitan State University President Sue Hammersmith on plans to establish a campus in the west metro area to centralize a number of programs now being held at sites all across the Twin Cities region.
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.
Alex Friedrich