A look at how Big Ten schools are handling reopening
Jasmine Snow, City Reporter
September 20, 2020
The fourteen Big Ten schools have faced unique difficulties with reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The University’s COVID-19 dashboard is live, but officials warn it’s incomplete
September 7, 2020
The University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) recently implemented a virtual dashboard that includes data on the prevalence of COVID-19 on the Twin Cities campus. The dashboard was discussed among administrators over the past several months and at the August Board of...
Graduate and professional students facing greater disparities due to COVID-19
July 18, 2020
Graduate and professional students face disparities and added financial hardships based on first-generation status, caretaking responsibilities of family members and social class, according to new data. More than 7,500 graduate and professional students at five large public research universities participa...
Nearly a quarter of spring classes taken pass/fail
July 9, 2020
Nearly 50,000 class grades were given as pass/fail at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities campus this past spring. This means that nearly a quarter of all classes taken at the University were taken as pass/fail. This total reflects a 142% increase in the total classes taken S/N in the spring 20...
UMN launches study measuring University impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic
July 2, 2020
The University of Minnesota is continuing work on a study that measures the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students, faculty and staff. The ongoing study observes participants’ feelings towards the University’s response to the pandemic and how their school, work, family and social lives have been...
Locked and loaded: the University’s mechanisms for securing data
November 21, 2019
By the end of the month, all University of Minnesota students, faculty and stakeholders will be required to use dual authentication when logging onto any University server, including MyU, G Suite and Canvas. An effort nearly a year in the making, the roll-out of Duo Security was prompted by the ...
Interactive: A look at bike traffic and growth at the University of Minnesota
David Clarey
May 4, 2017
On any given day, more than a thousand bikers zip across the Washington Avenue Bridge.The bridge is one of the busiest spots for bikers in Minneapolis, which is considered one of the nation’s top biking ciites. The University of Minnesota is one of the city’s busiest biking hubs. The University’s Pa...
UMN joins nationwide effort to archive public data
Raj Chaduvula
February 27, 2017
Coders, technology experts, librarians and archivists gathered for a two-day event to collect, copy and archive public federal data, web pages and studies.Data released by governments isn’t always immune from change or being taken down from easy public access, so volunteers from the University of Minnes...
See which classes fared best in their course evaluations
Ethan Nelson
November 16, 2016
The data behind students' courses evaluations has been requested for years, but only recently became publicly available. Some of the data is not public under the Minnesota Data Practices Act, but in 2014 the University compromised with requesters and agreed to publish some evaluations. These are the q...
Interactive: What kills Minneapolis residents?
Ethan Nelson
September 13, 2016
Cancer has overtaken heart disease as the leading cause of death in 22 states, a trend that mirrors numbers in Minneapolis.According to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, cancer was the leading cause of death in only two states — Minnesota and Alaska — in 2000. In 2014...
