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                    <title><![CDATA['Without a medical school that is moving ahead, none of us will make it.']]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[One longtime professor's view on the new outside review of the U's Academic Health Center. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 18, Dec 2012 12:5</pubDate>
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                    <description><![CDATA[In a letter to University of Minnesota faculty members, Prof. Christopher Cramer asserts that, 'A great university is one that bubbles with experimentation, and we are certainly a great university.' ]]></description>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Is being a researcher like running a small business?]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[As I scurried alongside chemist Christy Haynes from her research lab to her office to a meeting in the University of Minnesota's medical buildings, a quote came to mind, from U President Eric Kaler: ]]></description>
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                    <title><![CDATA[How will higher ed fare under DFL control?]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[David Schultz, a Hamline law professor and political analyst, says colleges and universities might be a higher priority now that Democrats have won control of the Legislature. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 15, Nov 2012 15:25</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Why does college cost so much? St. John's president answers]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[In St. Cloud Times column, President Michael Hemesath gives his perspective on this question: "Why is college so expensive?" ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 29, Oct 2012 14:56</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[How much will next U vice president make?]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Brian Herman, set to become vice president for research, will make a base salary of $305,000, plus $15,000 annually in retirement contributions. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 26, Oct 2012 16:7</pubDate>
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                    <description><![CDATA[The University of Minnesota has picked its next vice president for research -- Brian Herman, of the University of Texas.  ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 25, Oct 2012 9:35</pubDate>
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                    <description><![CDATA[In total, the U is asking for $91.6 million more, an 8.4 percent bump over the current biennium. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 12, Oct 2012 10:47</pubDate>
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                    <description><![CDATA[U reviews Penn State report to ensure it 'can never happen here' ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 11, Oct 2012 13:40</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[U uses report as myth-busting machine]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[University of Minnesota officials turn a 150-page "accountability" report into 15 myths they then debunked. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 14, Sep 2012 14:41</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Why Alexandria Tech graduates more students]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Alexandria Technical and Community College has the highest three-year graduation rates of the state's public, two-year colleges. ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler introduced himself Thursday morning to the 5,500 new first-year students with a black-and-white silent film. ]]></description>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Student borrowing is up, state report shows]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[The report, by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education, takes a broad look at how the state's students pay for college. ]]></description>
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                    <title><![CDATA[This year's 'mindset list' for the class of 2016]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Each year, Beloit College releases a list of traits that define the entering college class. How accurate is it? That's up for debate. ]]></description>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Kaler: 'We support the sanctions on Penn State' ]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[In a statement, University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler called it 'a cautionary tale for all of us.' ]]></description>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Up next in MnSCU 'listening sessions': agriculture]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[The sessions on agriculture start Thursday and continue through the month. ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Borrowers can now get a 3.5 percent interest rate on the SELF loan program, down from 4.0 percent.  ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[The Minnesota Public Interest Research Group commissioned the U's Office of Measurement Services to poll students at nine public and private colleges and universities. ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler and Lendley Black, chancellor of the U's Duluth campus, will be among 100 college presidents to participate in wreath-laying ceremony at Lincoln Memorial. ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[The annual open house will take place on campuses across the state. ]]></description>
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