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MSU-Moorhead is the sixth of seven state universities whose unionized faculty have formally expressed a lack of confidence in Steven Rosenstone, who has been in a dispute with them over his plan to overhaul the system. Read more →
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Last week, Minnesota State University – Moorhead President Anne Blackhurst went through a much tougher fund-raising stunt: Run 12.5 miles to raise money for the school. Read more →
MPR News’ Dan Gunderson writes about the hands-on nature of Minnesota State University-Moorhead‘s Music Industry and Entertainment Studies program: For students in the program, the assignments are a little unusual: search for local music talent, record and produce a new CD and manage the release for student-run Undeclared Records. “The record company is meant to Read more →
Earlier this month, Minnesota State University – Moorhead President Edna Mora Szymanski told the Star Tribune that part of the campus’ enrollment decline — a factor in its $4.9 million budget deficit — was due to a tightening of admission standards: The harsh truth, Szymanski said, is that for many years, about 15 to 20 Read more →
Minnesota State University – Moorhead President Edna Mora Szymanski told the Star Tribune that some of its decline in enrollment was intentional: In 2010, Minnesota State University Moorhead decided it was admitting too many unqualified students, and it started referring “large numbers” to community and technical colleges, said Moorhead President Edna Szymanski. … The harsh Read more →
I’ve been told that faculty and administration have just finished meeting over cuts proposed for the campus to solve a $5 million budget deficit. I’ll be on the horn with the president in a few minutes, but for now, here’s the announcement: Administrative proposal would eliminate projected deficit Posted on December 05, 2013 A plan Read more →
Minnesota State University – Moorhead officials are taking issue with a Slate article that says the campus, as well as University of the District of Columbia, are gutting academics to solve budget problems: Soon these regional public universities may have no departments of English, physics, or history—nor a host of other programs often associated with Read more →
I lost my father to cancer when I was a sophomore in college. I lost my mother to cancer when I was in grad school in 2009. It was crushing, but both times certain faculty members helped me get through my courses. So memories flooded me when I read this piece by Matt Gleeson in Read more →
Just when you think university finances might be stabilizing — with the state pumping more money in to MnSCU this year — Minnesota State University – Moorhead has announced a $4.9 million budget deficit. And that means the university will offer early retirement to faculty members, The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead reports. (Clarification: MSU-Moorhead spokesman David Read more →
I’ve been trying to find out how students are comping at Minnesota State University – Moorhead ever since professor Elizabeth Kirchoff told me how her students have been suffering in dorm rooms that lack air-conditioning. So I contacted one of her students, senior education major Matthias Valan, and asked him to take a look around Read more →