This month, the University of Minnesota – Rochester will graduate its first crop of students.
I’m visiting the school to see how far it has come since its founding, and will post about that later in a story.
But I hope to post on a few impressions I gather throughout the day, so stay tuned.
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