Alex FriedrichStudent research is booming where you might not expect it – Minnesota’s two-year community colleges. Once known as places that taught only introductory science courses, they’re conducting research with a level of sophistication that faculty members say wasn’t seen as recently as five years ago. The surge is part of a national movement that faculty Read more →
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Elizabeth BaierOfficials with the University of Minnesota Rochester continue to move ahead with plans to build a campus just south of the city’s downtown district. Read more →
University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler says he will form an outside panel to review how the U treats human subjects in clinical trials. His announcement followed a faculty resolution today requesting a review of the U’s practices. (See Item No. 10 on the second-to-last page above.) The panel is a response to the 2004 Read more →
Just came across this nice Vine video — a 360-degree shot of snow on the Bemidji State campus. It is the first one I’ve seen in Minnesota, but if you have seen others, send them in. Time to get in to the spirit — or at least get used to it. Update: I may have Read more →
Two University of Minnesota students have launched an online petition calling for a greater police presence on campus. Prompted by the recent rash of crimes, the petition has gained more than 3,100 signatures. It warns: If steps are not taken immediately, we, the students, will take matters into our own hands. Many of us are Read more →
Got this late yesterday from Minneapolis Community and Technical College. It’s in response to news-media attention over a confrontation during a class discussion of structural racism. The gist: At MCTC, we believe it is essential for our faculty to actively engage students in respectful discussions in the classroom regardless of topic and to create an Read more →
University of Minnesota students say they’re unnerved by a recent rash of crimes — especially a sexual assault Sunday in which the man appears to have posed as a uniformed officer. The early-morning assault prompted the third crime alert for the university community since the attempted daylight robbery of a student in Anderson Hall on Read more →
MPR News reporter Annie Baxter writes how a shakeup in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis that ousted two economists — both University of Minnesota professors — may have implications for the U. She writes that critics are questioning the future of the special relationship between the regional bank and the U’s Read more →
Bethel University will send the Department of Education the results of its FY 2013 audit this week, which campus officials say shows the university is financially healthy. The university has been in a battle with the feds over the results of a national college financial-health test, which the government says Bethel flunked. But campus officials Read more →
Former Dinkytown property owner Jeffrey Meyers tells the Star Tribune that Dinkytown — the urban neighborhood next to the U — has lost its flavor and could be re-energized by developers: “A lot of (family businesses) have been gone for a long time — including my father’s. “I don’t think there’s any charm. . Dinkytown needs Read more →