President Joan Gabel discussed the salary for incoming Provost Rachel Croson, the ongoing effort to create procedures around renaming and a potential budget request to the Legislature in her final sit...
In their final meeting of the decade, the University of Minnesota Board of Regents focused on a new real estate plan, a record year for research funding and continued a discussion about how to approach...
Three robbers attempted to steal a person's phone just before 3 p.m. on Friday in Dinkytown, according to a SAFE-U alert sent to students — the second alert of the day.
The suspects are only described...
The University of Minnesota Board of Regents approved a more than half-million dollar contract officially installing Rachel Croson as the next executive vice president and provost.
The approval did not...
Two attempted armed robberies were reported on the University of Minnesota campus over the weekend, according to all-campus alerts.
One of the incidents occurred at 12:45 a.m. on Sunday near the...
Students are being told to use caution after an attempted robbery on the University of Minnesota campus late Thursday night.
The alert was sent to students just before 11 p.m. on Thursday, saying...
A monthslong search to find a new head of human resources at the University of Minnesota has failed.
In an email to the University community Thursday, President Joan Gabel postponed the search that started...
A disciplined Humphrey School of Public Affairs professor will not teach classes for the rest of the academic year.
The Minnesota Daily reported in October that, according to his faculty mentor Ragui...
Research from the University of Minnesota shows having a low-level felony conviction adds a significant barrier to accessing a higher education.
The study, published in October, found applicants with a...
Rachel Croson liked Star Trek growing up, but while most of her friends were in love with Captain Kirk, she was drawn to Mr. Spock. His logical and analytics-based approach appealed to her.
Economics...
Minnesota is one of the few states that have moose, and researchers are trying to ensure the population stays stable.
A partnership between the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and the University...
President Joan Gabel spoke about reckoning with the University of Minnesota’s past, the school's role in combating climate change and what Rachel Croson, the next provost, will bring to the University,...
Last month, several swastikas and the phrase “white power” were graffitied in a bathroom stall at the University of Minnesota Law School.
Law School Dean Garry Jenkins was quick to condemn the vandalism...
The University of Minnesota has ties to slavery, even owing money to one of the largest slaveholders in South Carolina when the Civil War broke out.
Last Thursday, Christopher Lehman, chair of the Department...
The University of Minnesota Board of Regents unanimously approved a contract extension signed by football head coach P.J. Fleck in a rather empty special board meeting Thursday.
The deal, signed by Fleck...
Rachel Croson will be the next executive vice president and provost at the University of Minnesota, pending Board of Regents approval.
In a systemwide email on Wednesday, President Joan Gabel heralded...
Minneapolis police are telling residents to be aware and avoid suspects — four to five men, one wearing a mask — after a midnight robbery in Dinkytown, according to an all-campus safety alert.
Shortly...
As Faculty Consultative Committee chair, nearly every big decision at the University of Minnesota seems to have Amy Pittenger’s involvement.
Pittenger, in her 15th year as a professor in the College...
Students of color report having a lower sense of belonging at the University of Minnesota when compared to their white peers.
President Joan Gabel’s response: “We have work to do.”
But efforts...
University of Minnesota regents are looking to refresh board policies governing themselves.
In a robust conversation at the October meeting, regents discussed what changes, if any, they feel are...
The 2019 freshman class is the largest in 50 years and has the most Minnesota residents in 30 years.
The majority of the students are female, and the class has the highest percentage of students...
In December 2015, the University of Minnesota purchased about 22 acres of land across the railroad tracks, just northeast of campus. At the time it was called a “very strategic acquisition” by regents,...
Editors note: there has been an update to this story. James Ron is currently a University employee and performing faculty duties.
James Ron, a tenured professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs,...
President Joan Gabel discussed hiring the next provost, campus climate and the undefeated Gopher football team in a sit-down with the Minnesota Daily this week.
[The Gopher football team has] not...
The University of Minnesota could be better at producing public records when requested and has outlined ways to improve how it turns over records to the public, a new report says.
The Data Practices Review...
University of Minnesota officials presented statistics about campus climate, adding numbers to a continued discussion from a Board of Regents retreat in July.
The takeaway: The University is not...
Real estate, food service, procedures for renaming and campus climate were among the topics explored by the University of Minnesota Board of Regents during its October meeting.
The board took several actions...
A professor disciplined for alleged sexual harassment by the Humphrey School of Public Affairs is slated to be the sole instructor teaching the only human rights capstone class next spring, leading some...
Carol Fierke, the current provost at Texas A&M University, is the final candidate to be the next executive vice president and provost at the University of Minnesota.
Fierke has a local connection,...
All four candidates for the University of Minnesota's provost position have been announced.
Two of the candidates have already spoken at public forums, and the remaining candidates will participate in...
Rachel Croson, a current dean at Michigan State University, is the third of four candidates to fill the role of the University of Minnesota’s executive vice president and provost.
With a degree from...
In a meeting last April, the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents voted against renaming four buildings on campus, ending a campaign endorsed by then-President Eric Kaler to visibly reckon with...
The second of four candidates to be the next University of Minnesota provost was released Tuesday, the result of a monthslong search process to find the next chief academic officer for the system.
The...
Miranda Soppeland started her education at a private college in California before she transferred to the University of Minnesota to study anthropology.
She now has about $140,000 in student loans and it...
This is part two of a two part story.
Some students are demanding policy changes at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs following the return this fall of two tenured professors...
Antonio Tillis, the first of four candidates vying to be the next University of Minnesota provost, talked of the importance of shared governance and diversity at a public forum on campus Tuesday.
The current...
Antonio Dwayne Tillis, current dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Houston, is the first of four candidates vying for the job as the University of Minnesota’s...
The University of Minnesota has four candidates to be the next executive vice president and provost.
The candidates, yet to be named, will participate in public forums on campus in the coming weeks kicking...
Joan Gabel will be inaugurated as the first female president of the University of Minnesota Friday after a week of events, culminating with a live streamed ceremony and speech on the steps of Northrop...
The University of Minnesota Board of Regents wrapped up its first meeting of the academic year Friday after beginning its final session with an unexpected guest — a brief protest from a campus...
In her first monthly sit down with the Minnesota Daily, President Joan Gabel discussed promoting diversity, student mental health and the next steps in the process of reckoning with the University's history....
In 2008, Erica Barnes welcomed a new member of the family. Fourteen months into her daughter Chloe’s life, Barnes started to notice she had some neurological abnormalities. She was reassured by the pediatrician...
As students flood back to campus, University of Minnesota regents are preparing to dive into Joan Gabel’s first semester as president by outlining several priorities for the year.
Baked into nearly all...
In a first of its kind visit for a University of Minnesota president, Joan Gabel met with the Minneapolis City Council on Wednesday.
The stop at City Hall is another milestone for Gabel, who earlier...
As some Democratic presidential primary candidates are prescribing drastic higher education policy ideas, President Donald Trump sees pushing a workforce-oriented education system as the best way to “Keep...
At the regents retreat earlier this month, members of the Board of Regents and President Joan Gabel discussed the University of Minnesota’s research goals as a pillar that will ultimately go into the...
The University of Minnesota’s School of Music held the nation’s first International Summer Institute for Reggae Studies last month, a significant first step in increasing the overall education and...
Although the University of Minnesota Board of Regents and President Joan Gabel came to consensus on few things at a retreat in Faribault, Minnesota on Thursday and Friday, they agreed on two things: The...
The University of Minnesota's Board of Regents welcomed President Joan Gabel in her first board meeting since taking the reins as president on July 1.
In her first report to the board, Gabel said she has...
Debt and the cost of college are the focus of several Democratic presidential candidates' campaigns ahead of the 2020 Democratic primary.
Policy statements range from offering student loan refinancing...
As the University of Minnesota’s new president, Joan Gabel emphasizes collaboration and shared governance as pillars in her leadership style.
Gabel’s previous experience in higher education and focus...
At the University Senate meeting in May, senators thanked then-President Eric Kaler for his work with the governing body during his eight years at the University of Minnesota. The prolonged standing ovation...
University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler reflected on his time at the helm of the state’s flagship school in an email to the University community Friday as his “remarkable and productive journey”...
Approval by the Board of Regents is the final step in a nearly year-long endeavor to develop the University of Minnesota’s budget — a process that will ramp up again for next year in just over a month.
Created...
A committee tasked with overhauling the University of Minnesota’s liberal education requirements has three draft plans making their way around the University community, including several major changes...
A University of Minnesota Medical Center visitor was robbed after being approached in a parking garage by two suspects on Monday, according to an email sent to the University community.
The two suspects...
After a back-and-forth discussion, the University of Minnesota Board of Regents approved an amended version of the president’s budget, featuring a 2 percent tuition increase.
The budget will go into...
University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler offered regents a plan that lowers the increase of tuition to 2 percent, down half a percent from his initial plan, according to a memo sent to regents.
If...
Several University of Minnesota regents pushed back against a proposed tuition hike ahead of a vote to approve the budget on June 19, expressing a desire for a lower increase.
President Eric Kaler’s...
After working for 16 years in the restaurant industry, Kia Thompson decided she wanted to go back to school. She transferred to the University of Minnesota at age 35 from Minneapolis Community and Technical...
After the University of Minnesota received half of its two-year budget request, and much less than Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, regents are concerned about the growing disparities between...
A proposed tuition increase of 2.5 percent for resident undergraduates on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus will be presented to the Board of Regents for a vote later this month.
Outgoing...
Two University of Minnesota students were sent to the hospital after resisting an attempted robbery on campus early Wednesday morning, according to a campuswide email.
Two male students were on the...
Law enforcement vehicles pack the street in front of the Marshall apartment complex in Dinkytown on Wednesday, May 8. The FBI is leading the investigation with support from the Minnesota National Guard...
Preliminary tests of the substance found in a University of Minnesota student’s apartment at the Marshall “indicated the presumptive potential presence of ricin,” according to a Federal Bureau of...
The room in the Marshall which reportedly contained ricin has been blocked off by police. The room number is censored by the Minnesota Daily to protect individual privacy.
The proposed policy on gender identity passed in the University of Minnesota Senate Thursday.
The vast majority of senators supported the motion with a voice vote, with a handful voting against....
Robert McMaster loves maps. He is surrounded by them: a globe in his office and framed maps on the walls. Maps even decorate many of the ties he wears.
“He’s always reminding us about geography all...
University of Minnesota Police are searching for a suspicious man, possibly carrying a weapon, on the East Bank campus Sunday morning.
An emergency alert sent to students across several platforms...
With sensitive topics circling through University Senate committee meetings, some discussions are shuttered to the public and meeting minutes go unpublished for months.
These committees, composed of University...
An outbreak of African swine fever in China is worrying officials about its potential to spread to the United States, which could deliver a devastating blow to the agriculture industry.
University of Minnesota...
A man died after falling from the Stadium Village light rail station as a train departed early Saturday morning, according to Metro Transit.
Police were alerted to the incident around 1:20 a.m., according...
A University of Minnesota student filed a lawsuit accusing Chinese billionaire Richard Liu of sexual assault last summer, according to a complaint filed in Hennepin County District Court on Tuesday.
The...
Keith Yorek grew up on a dairy farm near Little Falls, Minnesota. In 2006, his parents had a plan: they would rent a barn down the road and put Yorek and his three siblings in charge of a herd of 35 cows....
Seeing inaction on the spread of a neurological animal disease, University of Minnesota researchers are ramping up a new program to bolster policy controlling the health emergency.
The Chronic Wasting...
In her first campus-wide email, President-designate Joan Gabel announced she will appoint a search committee later this month to replace outgoing Executive Vice President and Provost Karen Hanson.
The...
The full University Senate discussed a proposed policy on gender identity and expression for the first time in anticipation of voting on the policy at the May meeting.
The latest draft of the policy, titled...
The University of Minnesota outsources disposal of its old technology, recycling over a quarter million pounds of material in a year — but some wish they could buy retired computers from the college.
In...
Akash Dhotre is a University of Minnesota graduate student from India who just experienced his first Minnesota winter. He's now dealing with winter's lingering effects, as his Dinkytown basement flooded...
The University of Minnesota's search for President-Designate Joan Gabel was one of its most expensive, according to newly released expense reports.
The documents, released on Wednesday, showed that the...
University of Minnesota student Julia Hamburger has been parking on Dinkytown streets for four years without ever getting a ticket. Her streak is now over.
“In the past two days, I got three tickets,”...
Jose Bonete, a traffic control agent for Minneapolis Regulatory Services, was ticketing vehicles in Dinkytown when University of Minnesota student Julia Hamburger stopped him so she could better understand...
Jose Bonete, a traffic control agent for Minneapolis Regulatory Services, answers questions about where residents of Dinkytown should park to avoid a ticket, on Saturday, March 9, 2019.
As budget discussions ramp up, colleges and units across the University of Minnesota system are designating funds for possible reallocation.
The University’s compact process requires different...
The University of Minnesota carves out separate requirements for students to request permission before shooting video in public spaces on campus — guidelines that are more restrictive than those for...
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