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Winona State President Scott Olson named chancellor of Minnesota State system
The next chancellor of the Minnesota State college and university system will be Scott Olson, a state university president and longtime insider who intends to keep advancing current priorities while...
View Article2023 high school grads could take on $37K in college debt
As millions of Americans with federal student loan debt hang in the balance, waiting to learn whether some of what they owe will be forgiven, the machine that has churned out this debt for decades is...
View ArticleMN state tuition freeze and free college included in higher ed funding bill
The Legislature will tap $650 million from the state’s budget surplus to freeze tuition at Minnesota State institutions for the next two years and provide free college to some students. House lawmakers...
View ArticleRosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan voters OK state record $493M school bond referendum
Voters in the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan school district on Tuesday approved a combined $493 million bond referendum, the largest successful public school funding request in Minnesota history....
View ArticleUMN Duluth, Morris, Crookston campuses hope tuition experiments will stem...
Three University of Minnesota campuses are experimenting with tuition and financial aid in hopes of turning around a downward trend in enrollment. Compared to 2019-20, enrollment is down 30 percent at...
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Judge finds ‘troubled track record’ on gender but no discrimination in UMN...
The University of Minnesota School of Music has a “troubled track record for promoting and hiring female professors,” but the stalled career of a tenured faculty member who sued the U is not the result...
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UMN researchers are tracking coyotes in the metro. Here’s where they are most...
Two coyotes travel through the old rail yard at the former Ford plant in the Highland Park neighborhood in St. Paul on March 13, 2021. Tim Regan first noticed the coyotes there in 2017, and has been...
View ArticleAfter a dispute over procedure, House DFLers delay vote on preschool funding
Tensions boiled over briefly in the Minnesota House on Saturday as Democrats in control of the chamber tried to push through a preschool funding bill that Republicans argued wasn’t given the required...
View ArticlePhotos: New graduates from the University of Minnesota brave the rain
An estimated 4,600 students attended the University of Minnesota’s commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 13. The new graduates were clad in caps, gowns and ponchos. Around 20,000 attendees watched the...
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‘Love, kindness and giving back’ inspires sock design competition, Woodbury...
Students from Woodbury to Los Angeles designed their own socks for a competition focused on paying it forward. Led by a local sock company, the competition was judged by a former “Bachelorette.” More...
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St. Paul district plans East African magnet school to compete with charters
In fall 2021, St. Paul Public Schools angered nearby families with East African roots by announcing plans to close Highwood Hills Elementary due to low enrollment. Two years later, Highwood Hills...
View ArticleHere’s what’s in the giant education bill that passed the MN House and Senate
Minnesota schools will see a surge in state funding, along with new course requirements, teacher diversity grants and changes to reading instruction, under legislation that will become law with Gov....
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Stillwater High School senior had same paraprofessional for 13 years
Emily Kargel met Cindy Williams-McClung on her first day of kindergarten at Lake Elmo Elementary School in the fall of 2010. Emily loved horses and art projects and music; she had long hair....
View ArticleUsing ‘he/him,’ ‘she/her’ in emails got 2 dorm directors fired at small New...
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — Shua Wilmot and Raegan Zelaya, two former dorm directors at a small Christian university in western New York, acknowledge their names are...
View ArticleReport finds Hamline University violated professor’s academic freedom in...
Hamline University’s response to a Muslim student’s art class complaint last fall violated the professor’s academic freedom, according to a new report by the American Association of University...
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City and school officials eye Barker’s Alps Park as possible site of new...
The city of Bayport started leasing the area now known as Barker’s Alps Park from the state in the 1970s and purchased the 48-acre parcel in 1985. The land, formerly part of the Minnesota State prison...
View ArticleSt. Paul school surveys after stabbing death show desire for tougher student...
Students, staff and parents want tougher consequences for student misbehavior, along with more mental health support and perhaps the return of school resource officers, according to St. Paul Public...
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Post-it power: Lake Elmo teacher lifts student with supportive messages
With Finn Helwig, 10, at her side, fourth-grade teacher Pam Mohs goes over a civics project with students at Lake Elmo Elementary School on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. (John Autey / Pioneer Press) When...
View ArticleSt. Paul school budget plan calls for more spending than revenue
Even with a big increase in state aid coming, St. Paul Public Schools plans to spend more than it takes in next year. The second round of federal coronavirus relief grants expires in September, and...
View ArticleWhat’s in MN’s $72B budget: Preschool gets $300 million boost
Families with young children in child care will benefit from multiple new laws approved by the Minnesota Legislature. Appropriations in the early learning bill grew by $300 million over four years, of...
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