What MnSCU students want done with campus buildings

It’s that time of year — the time when students cry out for lawmakers to give colleges enough money to fix their facilities (to replace bad pipes, heat cold, drafty classrooms — that sort of stuff).

The program to fix all that is called HEAPR (“HEE-per”), an acronym for a rather clumsy title: the Higher Education Asset Preservation and Replacement.

The Senate higher-education committee is meeting today to discuss the proposed bonding bill, and students are pushing legislators to focus state money on fixing and renovating buildings. (Hence, the letter above.)

It’s an evergreen issue.

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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.