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Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Questions continue to surround USG’s importance to the larger student body.

Desk Decision: Underachieving Student Government?

by Opinions Desk
Published April 8, 2024
New USG leadership should improve its efforts to represent students.
Interim-President Jeffrey Ettinger at a University of Minnesota Board of Regents special meeting on Monday June 26, 2023.

Undergraduate Student Government gives input on presidential search update

by Georgia Jensen
Published February 8, 2024
The Board of Regents will announce the final four presidential candidates on Friday.
Regent Mary Turner addresses USG forum body on Tuesday, Feb. 6.

UMN regent speaks with Undergraduate Student Government

by Georgia Jensen
Published February 7, 2024
Regent Mary Turner spoke at a bi-weekly Forum session of the Undergraduate Student Government in a reverse Q&A.
UMN's admission process has changed after this summer's affirmative action Supreme Court ruling.

UMN continuing to implement race-neutral admission policy in accordance with Supreme Court ruling

by Sam Hill
Published December 7, 2023
UMN maintains a holistic review process of applications that remains mostly unchanged after June Supreme Court case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and North Carolina.
Shashank Murali and Sara Davis were announced next year's USG president and vice president on March 27.

USG leadership speaks on presidential search, student services fees, housing

by Georgia Jensen
Published December 6, 2023

As the semester draws to a close, Undergraduate Student Government (USG) President Shashank Murali and Vice President Sara Davis sat down with the Minnesota Daily to discuss their work in the past months.Fourth-year...

New North Dakota State University (NDSU) students are welcomed through the front gates.

NDSU announces new free tuition program for 2024-25 school year

by Alex Lassiter
Published November 21, 2023
The program will begin at the same time as Minnesota’s North Star Promise scholarship program and will cover tuition and fees for eligible students.
The exterior of the U.S. Supreme Court building on Oct. 29, 2022.

UMN’s student response to student loan debt forgiveness strike-down

by Alex Lassiter
Published July 25, 2023
Members of UMN Undergraduate Student Government commented on the Supreme Court’s rejection of President Biden’s $400B student debt relief plan.
The current exterior of Morrill Hall on the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus on Friday, July 3, 2020.

Mergendahl: UMN’s budget process is a black box

by Cal Mergendahl
Published July 9, 2023
An aura of mystique makes it impossible to meaningfully question the way critical decisions around tuition and spending are made.

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