Tuition for in-state undergraduates at the University of Minnesota will stay flat in the fall, after regents Friday passed a budget that includes the first tuition freeze in a generation. Regents praised the two-year freeze, which University President Eric Kaler won funding for from the legislature. But a few regents, including, expressed concern over the Read more →
Steve Sviggum says he will resign from the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents. The board met today (THURSDAY) to vote on a resolution asking Sviggum to either resign his position on the board, or to leave his position as spokesperson of the state Senate Republican caucus. Sviggum was emotional, often choking back tears, as Read more →
The student-oriented Minnesota Public Interest Research Group calls on University of Minnesota regent Steve Sviggum to choose either his position as regent or his staff job with the state Senate Republican Caucus: Because of the partisan nature of his new position, it is hard to reconcile how he can execute the Regents mission while fulfilling Read more →
Internal documents from the University of Minnesota don’t show any violations of the state’s Open Meeting Law during the school’s recent presidential search. But critics say the U’s board of regents violated the spirit of the law when they met privately with the final candidate for the job. Back in November the University of Minnesota Read more →
After this week’s interviews to see who could fill openings on the University of Minnesota Board of Regents, the Regent Candidate Advisory Council recommended the following candidates, whose names they’ll send to the Joint Legislative Committee for consideration. RCAC staffer Diane Henry confirmed they are: At-Large: Allen Anderson, Steven Hunter and Robert Kennedy Second District: Read more →
The state legislature’s Regent Candidate Advisory Council has released its list 18 interviewees for four slots on the University of Minnesota Board of Regents: At-Large: Allen Anderson, Gordon Bailey, Steven Hunter and Robert Kennedy Second District: Laura Brod, Thomas Devine, Kelly Smith, Steven Sviggum, Robert Vogel and Leon Westbrock Third District: David Larson, Norman Rickeman Read more →
The Minnesota Daily argues that the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents is a rubber-stamp body that has long been complacent: Meet the Board of Regents. There are only 12 of them, and they’ve been responsible for approving the president’s proposed tuition hikes year after year. Very few of them chirp a word in healthy Read more →
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