Paper: MnSCU must not hide its actions

The Winona Daily News chastises the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system for lack of transparency in how it handled its chancellor’s new contract — as well the under-the-radar granting of a $2 million consulting contract for its system overhaul:

At a time when MnSCU is charting its future, its first building block – with taxpayers and students and parents and legislators – should be transparency.

That’s how you build trust with the people who pay taxes that help support our universities and colleges.

Read the full editorial 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.