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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

North Dakota, Minnesota and South Dakota universities and teaching programs encourage prospective and practicing teachers in a variety of ways.
The protest of around 30 people also drew members of the UMN Teamsters, Anti-War Committee, and the American Indian Movement
Twin Cities students could see up to a 7% tuition hike -- and 3.5% for out-state campuses -- if Legislature rejects university’s budget proposal.
Willmar physician Cindy Firkins Smith has been named to lead the development of an expansion of the University of Minnesota Medical School in St. Cloud.

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The campus would be a partnership between CentraCare and the University of Minnesota Medical School. Officials say the school could train students with the goal of serving rural communities.
Half of the deaths among collared wolves at Minnesota's Voyageurs National Park are caused by humans.
Two common winter injuries: fracturing a bone falling on the ice and wrenching your back shoveling snow. In this episode of Health Fusion, Viv Williams shares tips from a University of Minnesota doctor.
A federal grant may be used to develop a residency program that would train physicians in St. Cloud and the Willmar area, in the hopes of developing more physicians to practice in rural areas.
Student body representatives say that during a recent lunch with regent Steve Sviggum and “historically excluded students,” he “didn’t seem to internalize anything” the students tried to share.
The union represents about 1,500 custodians, cooks, groundskeepers and other service workers at the five campuses, including the University of Minnesota Duluth.

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Sviggum was met with backlash by members of the public as well as other regents after questioning if the University of Minnesota-Morris had become too diverse of a campus.
Summary: Another silver lining is that a student named Dylan Young, president of the Morris Campus Student Association, has achieved what must be the ambition of any student leader: to have engaged publicly in a battle of wits with a regent (or trustee, dean, president or provost) and emerged on top. Young wrote an open letter to Sviggum that was everything Sviggum's original remarks were not: reasonable, levelheaded and cogent.
Only five challengers have defeated incumbents for seats in Minnesota's district courts in the past 13 elections, but one Scott County attorney believes he can become the sixth.

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