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Earlier this month, Minnesota State University - Moorhead President Edna Mora Szymanski told the 

 -- 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 percent of the freshmen admitted to Moorhead didn’t meet its published admissions standards. It was a common practice at many universities, she said, as they struggled to keep their classrooms full. The problem, she said, was that many of those students were failing.

 of Fargo-Moorhead says that may not be the case:

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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 

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 →


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