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Boys and Girls State Minnesota instills civics in students who create a government in a week

Boys and Girls State Minnesota instills civics in students who create a government in a week

Boys State and Girls State are separate, weeklong programs run by the American Legion and American Legion Auxiliary, respectively and they are a crash course on the inner workings of government.
by Cathy Wurzer, Alanna Elder and Ellen Finn

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Second-chance smells? Gustavus Adolphus College’s corpse flower is also a reluctant bloomer

Second-chance smells? Gustavus Adolphus College’s corpse flower is also a reluctant bloomer

If you weren’t one of the 20,000 people to catch a whiff of Horace at Como Park Zoo and Conservatory, you might get a second chance with Gemini, Gustavus Adolphus College’s corpse flower. But like Horace, it’s taking its time to bloom.
by Megan Burks

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University of Minnesota delays plan to hire genocide studies director

University of Minnesota delays plan to hire genocide studies director

The University of Minnesota will likely wait more than a year to hire a new director for its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, after pausing a hiring process amid controversy. A new search committee will include further community input.
by Estelle Timar-Wilcox

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University of Minnesota raises tuition for next school year

University of Minnesota raises tuition for next school year

In a split vote on Thursday, the university’s Board of Regents approved tuition increases as part of a $5 billion budget. It’s the university’s highest tuition increase in over a decade.
by Estelle Timar-Wilcox

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While women outnumber men on campus, their later earnings remain stuck

While women outnumber men on campus, their later earnings remain stuck

On college campuses, women are making inroads in male-dominated fields like engineering and business. But that is not eliminating the earnings gaps in leadership and income in the workplace.
by Jon Marcus

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Minneapolis resolution passes, school focused on Native cultural education to get new home

Minneapolis resolution passes, school focused on Native cultural education to get new home

A Minneapolis elementary school dedicated to American Indian cultural education is on track to move into its own building for the first time since the school opened almost a decade and a half ago. Students’ families and school leaders are also asking the district for dedicated busing.
by Melissa Olson

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Cuts to St. Cloud State University degrees, faculty get final approval

Cuts to St. Cloud State University degrees, faculty get final approval

The university will eliminate about 90 programs and 13 percent of its full-time faculty, or 54 positions. SCSU’s acting president said the cuts are necessary to correct a structural budget deficit caused by years of spending that outpaced student enrollment.
by Kirsti Marohn

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With short-term budget fix in hand, Minneapolis school board turns to long game: school closures

With short-term budget fix in hand, Minneapolis school board turns to long game: school closures

District leaders will begin walkthroughs of campuses this summer, as part of a study that will inform a school closure plan, the school board chair tells MPR News. A budget passed Tuesday relied largely on one-time funding to close a $110 million deficit.
by Cathy Wurzer, CJ Younger and Megan Burks

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