Minnesota State University – Moorhead President Edna Szymanski tells The Advocate student paper why she ended on Monday the university’s $37 million fundraising campaign to establish a hockey program after generating about half of the financial goal:
“The other half wasn’t about to materialize in the next few days.”
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