Take a look at the Maurices building on Superior Street. Sure, it’s the corporate headquarters for a retail fashion chain. But it’s also sign of where the University of Minnesota – Duluth may be going. You may remember that when the company announced it was donating the building to UMD last month, Chancellor Lendley Black Read more →
It’s 7 a.m., and UMD student Scotty Ducharme is having breakfast with me in the dining hall. He’s wearing a T-shirt, pajama bottoms and flip-flops. Why? Heck — because he can. It’s really toasty in the buildings here at UMD. And unlike a lot of college campuses, almost all of the buildings are connected by Read more →
After a bit of break, it’s time to visit another campus — this time the University of Minnesota – Duluth. It hasn’t been a stranger to On Campus. You may have heard that it’s grappling with a multimillion-dollar deficit that will require some cuts over the next five years. And Gov. Mark Dayton — among Read more →
The University of Minnesota-Duluth will cut up to $1.1 million in programs and services this spring in an initial round of budget reductions to help close a deficit of about $9.4 million over five years. The proposed reductions (see full list below), which campus leaders discussed Monday, include cuts to the IT department, library staffing Read more →
The University of Minnesota – Duluth has the seventh-largest number of on-campus arrests per capita for drug and alcohol violations, according to a study publicized in The Huffington Post. The campus logged 14.3 arrests per 1,000 students — behind first-place University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh, which had 22.41. The data is limited — and a little Read more →
On the heels of the list of the coldest colleges in the U.S. comes this ranking — using Accuweather data — that places the University of Minnesota – Duluth in fifth place among colleges that receive the most snow. The campus gets almost 86 inches of snow each year. According to The Post Standard in Read more →
University of Minnesota – Duluth officials say they’re preparing an initial round of budget cuts for the campus. They haven’t identified exactly where the $4 million in reductions will occur. But Chief Academic Officer Andrea Schokker said they could include the elimination of up to two low-enrollment degrees, the layoff of part-time faculty and the Read more →
The University of Minnesota – Duluth is set to demolish an iconic student residence complex next month. When the Stadium Apartments were built in 1972, they offered the first apartment-style student living in Duluth. University demolition project manager John Kessler says they remained popular years later with their two-story apartment layout, spiral staircases and views Read more →
I got a call today from Andrea Schokker, executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, who gave me her take on this fall’s sweeping evaluation of campus services and academic programs at University of Minnesota – Duluth. She emphasized that the scrutiny on the Duluth campus will be unusually fair: “A lot of the prioritization efforts Read more →
A group of University of Minnesota – Duluth students were walking down the street in Washington, D.C., recently, when some dude in a passing car yelled out: “Duluth, Duluth!” That dude ended up being Democratic U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan of the 8th District, who got out and chatted with the students, and then posed for a Read more →
Alex Friedrich