Alex Friedrich
Thirteen University of Minnesota students arrested at a Feb. 9 sit-in of the president’s office have accepted an offer that could lead to the dismissal of their cases in a year. Read more →
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University of Minnesota spokesman Chuck Tombarge had this to say late yesterday afternoon about the dozen or so students who gathered in front of Morrill Hall to voice concerns over diversity at the U: Since late January, several members of the senior leadership team (from both the Office of Student Affairs and the Office for Read more →
Update: I caught up with the group “Whose Diversity?” this morning after it protested in front of Morrill Hall, the U’s main administration building. About a dozen students attended, according to both an onlooker and the group’s spokeswoman, graduate student Joanna Núñez. She summed up the group’s main complaint — that diversity at the U Read more →
Augsburg College sociology professor Tim Pippert tells National Public Radio how colleges and universities try to shape how prospective students see diversity on their campuses. More specifically, in 2011 he and his research team — which included students Laura Essenburg (see video above) and Edward Jay Matchett — found that the whiter the school, the Read more →
I’ve spoken with the two Minnesota admissions directors to get an idea of how today’s Supreme Court ruling in the Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin case could affect how they conduct admissions here. Both said their schools need to study the ruling more before they could say anything definite. But after getting a Read more →
Late yesterday afternoon I attended a screening of “Paying for College: How Minnesota Families Make It Happen,” which I previewed here. About 100 or so higher-ed and K-12 officials saw the 26-minute video, which is a co-production of TPT’s Minnesota Productions & Partnerships, and is co-sponsored by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and the Read more →
“There is a contradiction between the U’s expressed commitment to these sites and its simultaneous disinvestments of these sites.” Senior Sofia Shank, telling the Minnesota Daily that the University of Minnesota likes to think itself sophisticated and diverse — but has disenfranchised cultural groups on campus. About 40 students are filming a documentary, Whose University? Read more →
“If you decide to go to Bates, I’ll be there with you through the whole process next year.” — Bates College “swing dean” Michael M. Martinez in the Chronicle of Higher Education on what he tells those he recruits. Martinez is one of two Bates officials who do multicultural admissions one year — and then Read more →
This fall we read why Winona State University has a higher-than-average rate of diversity compared to its local public-sector neighbors. Recently The Hechinger Report lauded Minnesota private colleges for their success in creating and keeping diverse student bodies, telling U.S. higher-ed institutions: They’d do well to pay a little attention to some Minnesota success stories. Read more →