An annual report issued last week by the National College Board indicates that average tuition at public four-year institutions increased 3.4 percent in 1998-99, the lowest year-to-year increase in a decade. This...

In an attempt to bring caffeine even closer to college students' lips, the University invited Starbucks and Java City to move into prime locations on campus. Both companies' products and logos are now...

Alliance Capital Management, a large investment firm with a location in downtown Minneapolis, announced a $500,000 gift Friday to the Carlson School of Management. The money was recently added to the Golden...

The University financial aid staff breathed a sigh of relief last week after the Internal Revenue Service delayed a law that would have required colleges to collect detailed and extensive information on...

Brian Gabrial, 43, picked up his new car Monday, a 1991 Audi with 119,000 miles and a good body. Before laying out the $4,000 to the co-worker who sold him the car, Gabrial did his homework. To make sure...

It appears that administrators at the Carlson School of Management have proven the saying that "if you build it, they will come." Both undergraduate and MBA programs at the Carlson school enjoyed a surge...

Car companies, retailers and just about anyone who sells things for a profit should be frightened by 26 year-old Marcelo Bertalm¡o. For an American consumer, he has a very unusual habit: Bertalm¡o...

The University has another 10 million reminders of why its business school carries the name of Curtis L. Carlson. The Carlson School of Management announced Friday that it received a $10 million gift on...

Will students be in the mood for a New York strip steak during their evening study breaks? How 'bout some spicy sauces to pour over their entrees? Jim Grell, co-owner of The Modern Cafe in Northeast Minneapolis...

Mark Lindblom isn't being forced out of Dinkytown, he's choosing to leave. Today, Lindblom is clearing out his jewelry shop at its location on 14th Street Southeast, one of Dinkytown's main cross streets....

Nobody told Dinkytown about the boom economy. In the past three years, as the American economic miracle has hit its stride, the normally lively and healthy intersection of Fourth Street Southeast and 14th...

As far as the economy is concerned, this week is an important one for every U.S. consumer and investor. This morning the latest Consumer Price Index data will be released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics...

Researchers at the University's Boobology Center, a renowned breast think tank, concluded yesterday that hairy male breasts in female undergarments look "like something you'd nuzzle," "something like soft...

In agreements with universities in China and Austria, the Carlson School of Management expanded its international program scope earlier this month. The two new programs will be modeled after the Carlson...

After gaining only about 1 percent in its first year of operation, the Carlson School of Management's Golden Gopher Growth Fund hasn't exactly enjoyed the same 20 percent gains as the Dow or the 40 percent...

In light of Friday's inflation report indicating a 0.7 percent jump in consumer prices in April -- the largest in nine years -- the Federal Reserve on Tuesday afternoon reported that it stood ready to...

On Cedar Avenue South, a handful of lackluster storefronts are quietly hammering out their place in the business world. But to be sure, that world is galaxies away from the technological sophistication...

Faculty members have enjoyed generous salary increases in recent years, though not enough to get the University's pay rate back into competitive territory. According to salary statistics released Friday...

In some cases, Minnesota can be too nice. "If we get people to come here, then keep them here through two winters, they stay," said Michael Agnew, director of the Carlson School of Management Career Services...

Despite a fantastic first quarter, analysts see trouble in the leading stocks and their hegemony over the market. Most stock market skeptics evoke the popular analogy of a bursting bubble to describe...

The Carlson School of Management's graduate school program continued its climb up the business school rankings by placing 26th nationwide, according to U.S. News and World Report. The latest business school...

When it comes to selling a business idea, charm alone doesn't go very far. Reputation and a robust plan play the big parts. This is one of the lessons 215 entrants in the second annual Carlson School of...

Sometimes no amount of elbow grease tames the waves in the sea sailed by growing businesses. For new and growing businesses owned by women, minorities or disabled persons, everyday snags can sink the ship...

Dollars and cents render an incomplete measure of what Curtis L. Carlson did for the University and the Carlson School of Management. At Carlson's funeral Tuesday, Nils Hasselmo, president of the University...

The church filled to capacity Tuesday afternoon, accommodating hundreds of mourners at the funeral of Curtis Carlson, president of Plymouth-based Carlson Companies and devoted University benefactor. He...

The University lost a great friend and its greatest benefactor. Curtis L. Carlson -- namesake of the Carlson School of Management -- died Friday evening at age 84. Since his first gift of $500 in 1952,...

Cooperatives like North County Co-Op on the West Bank won't steal food from the mouths of traditional for-profit businesses, but they look more formidable by the day. The National Cooperative Bank in Washington,...

Basic Fact One: Go to college; it will help you get a job. Basic Fact Two: If you run a bookstore, move it to a college; it will help you stay in business. Independent booksellers like the Student Book...

Like the retail saying goes -- it's not the size of your selection that matters, it's how you use it. Dinkytown's Disc-Go-Round, might be considered poorly endowed as far as CD shops go. Leaving all licentious...

A half-million people were killed in 1947 by riots and mobs in the Punjab, a flat, fertile region occupying the northwestern portion of India. When an academic lecture opens with this kind of statistic,...

Super Bowl or not, the Vikings' strong season delivered serious cash for businesses that capitalized on purple pride. Nick's Sports World in downtown Minneapolis sold more than 2,000 Randy Moss jerseys...

If the University was a public company traded on the NASDAQ stock market, it would be soaring right now. By the end of the month, University Academic and Distributed Computing Services will introduce an...

Aside from an actual recession, the next worst thing is the anticipation of one. Economists are treading lightly. With American markets a stone's throw from July's all time highs and economic fundamentals...

Money-wise parents with a little foresight might do well to seriously consider expanding the back-to-school list to include a new house. Not surprisingly, this doesn't happen much. Purchasing a home isn't...

On the eve of its fifth anniversary celebration in November, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum is pushing to further expand its exhibitions and programs despite cuts in federal funding for the arts. "It's...

Kenneth Starr told a University Law School audience Saturday that although presidents have the right to withhold information from Congress, that right is subordinate to the needs of the criminal justice...

If you're reading this, or any other newspaper article today, you're part of a minority group in America: the moderately well-informed voter minority. If, on the other hand, this paper accidentally fell...

Job hunting, long a rite of passage into the business world, has recently been replaced by job shopping, a less painful equivalent. Even with an economic malaise creeping over the globe, the U.S. job market...

The prosperity of the American economy during the last two years paid off big for investors, corporations and state and federal governments. The University's slice of the pie wasn't too shabby either. During...

There's nothing like waking up to a cigarette, or at least a cigarette advertisement. University commuters who travel Huron Boulevard would know for sure, since a billboard for Camel cigarettes on Washington...

Anxious travelers waiting to scoop up Northwest's post-strike air fare deals are coming back from travel agents empty-handed. While Northwest executives and union representatives were in closed-door meetings...

As the labor market continues its belt-tightening, employers are renewing efforts to attract and retain the most talented college graduates. Lately, internships have been the lure of choice. Employers...

Members of the University community expressed relief Tuesday in response to President Bill Clinton's Monday night address in which he admitted to an "inappropriate" relationship with former White House...

Like most other farmers south of the Twin Cities, Dan Ireland, who owns 800 acres in Mankato, Minn., is getting pinched by the depressed demand for his most important crop: corn. But in at least one respect,...

For parents and students counting on their portfolio gains to cover college tuition bills, stock market declines in recent weeks might leave many of them in a jam. When the Dow Jones industrial average...

Their SAT scores make high school teachers giddy. The best colleges will court them. Corporations will pay them richly. And for the past two weeks, they've been at the University working and studying...

At 10 a.m. today, U.S. Capitol Officer Jacob J. Chestnut's funeral procession will leave Fort Washington on its way to Arlington National Cemetery. Chestnut will be laid to rest with Detective John M....

Recent University graduate Anthony George's voice shows hints of guilty bragging as he talks about how easily he landed his job at U.S. Bank. "When I went in for the interview, I knew how everything was...

It wasn't the good pay or convenient parking that ultimately led Alexs D. Pate, author of "Amistad," to take a teaching position at the University this fall. "I'm just looking for a place I feel comfortable,"...

Even though it's losing money, the student-run Golden Gopher Growth Fund, now in its third month of operation, is paying off for the students who run it. Second year master's of business administration...

As development staff plan for the year 2000 and beyond, private contributors and their donations represent significant factors in edging the University into the top national rankings. Still in its preliminary...

Directors of the University's business school aim to cement the college's top 10 national rating with the broadening of a cutting edge program for entrepreneurs. This week marks the beginning of a three-year,...

Roofers and window washers began major maintenance work on University buildings on Monday, the first day of a five-year facility fix-up project. The University budgeted $46 million for roof replacement,...

As a spectator at the first Family Advocate Network System race in 1989, Harvey Sweetland Lewis III looked on with disbelief as runners circled Lake Harriet from dawn to dusk and then dawn again. "I couldn't...

In an ongoing campaign to boost bicycle commuting, three local organizations last week released an updated Twin Cities Bicycle Map and Commuter Guide. Created by a joint effort of University staff members,...

The Metro Transit Authority extended its services Monday, creating Route 50 and beefing up Route 16, to attract new riders and cater to the growing numbers of University and business commuters. Transit...

Sixth-grader Baon Kong peered up at Amundson Hall and grinned. "I would probably like to go here one day," the little girl said. "The buildings are really big." Baon was one of about 140 fifth and sixth...

A new alliance with US Bancorp will bring Wall Street to the Carlson School of Management as finance majors run a $1 million mutual fund. US Bancorp and the Carlson School officially announced a partnership...

During a University robotics event Monday, more than 400 people attended a fireworks display of new technology that included the educational possibilities of robots. The Hyatt Regency ballrooms in Minneapolis...

Some University officials want the view from school classrooms to appear clearer when students return in the fall. A University window washing and replacement proposal is due to go before the Board of...

The recent trend of banking industry mega-mergers might lay a lasting mark on the job market as well as on Wall Street. Three new banking goliaths emerged from as many mergers in the last two weeks;...

The Grand Ballroom of the Minneapolis Marriott was decked out with ice sculptures and a small army of black-tied wait staff for the Institute of Technology's 12th annual Science and Technology Banquet. Led...

Today, Gray's Campus Drug store sits empty with its blank windows staring out across the Dinkytown intersection of 14th Avenue and Fourth Street. The humble shop was a local mainstay for more than 50...

Emblazoned on one of the yellow placards bobbing over the crowd at Friday's health care rally was the message: "Sick Graduate Students Can't Teach!" More than 200 students along with interested spectators...

University investments have escaped the scourge of the Asian flu -- at least for the moment. With gains of more than 26 percent, 1997 was an exceptional year for the University's portfolio. Like the vast...

The Carlson School of Management's Golden Gopher Growth Fund received a $1 million contribution from Norwest Bank, bringing the fund's available resources to $2 million. The mutual fund, the only one of...