Each year, University of Minnesota officials present to the Board of Regents a hefty "accountability" report that delves into topics including enrollment, class sizes and dissertation fellowships.
It can get a little dry.
But this time, U leaders turned the draft report's 150 pages into 15 myths they then debunked, one by one. The first: "It takes forever to graduate from the U. No one graduates in four years."
"It's just not true," Provost Karen Hanson said at Friday's regents meeting.
The Twin Cities campus' four-year graduation rate hit 57.2 percent in 2012, the report shows -- up from 28.9 percent of the class that started in 1998. The university had set a goal of 60 percent by 2012.
The most recent six-year graduation rate is now 72.9 percent, according to the report. The goal is 80 percent by 2014.
Here are a few other myths, with the U's explanation of why they're not true:
Classes at the U are huge and mostly taught in large lecture halls.