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ST. PAUL — With an aging workforce and pressing labor shortages, a new collaboration among tech colleges will focus on infusing the ag industry with skilled workers. Educators and lawmakers gathered Tuesday in St. Paul to announce the opening of a new Center of Excellence within...

ST. PAUL — Much of the higher education talk from Minnesota political leaders this year is about improving the workforce by training and retraining people in the state’s two-year colleges and technical schools, but President Eric Kaler of the University of Minnesota reminds legislators...

WILLMAR -- If the students in Shawn Mueske's biology classes are studying about fingerprints, shoeprints, blood typing, throat cultures or bacteria in food, he uses samples from students and gets them involved in the learning. He cares about them, and they know it. "I get very good...