Academia is a strange little world—we're happy about this news!
The biggest winners from the University of Minnesota Board of Regents meeting? The 1,900 students at the Morris campus who saw their tuition go down by almost $1,000.
We're an even better bargain than before. Now we just need to get more students to take advantage of us…so enroll at the University of Minnesota Morris! Send your kids here!
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Remember how Shane Morris posted a photo that he claimed showed that the "wormy corn" sign had been taken down when in fact the sign was visible in his photo?
A representative from Answers in Genesis will be speaking here in Morris, Minnesota! And none of the scheduled talks conflict with any of my classes!
When I was looking in the Philip Morris Documents Archive for information on their astroturf operations, I noticed some familiar names:
It's that time when universities get on their knees and beg the state for continuing support (hey, isn't that all the time?), and my colleague Pete Wyckoff gave some testimony at the Minnesota capitol the other day.
I would love to as I'm sure they'd get a great education ... and the saving on the tuition would just about cover the cost of the air tickets ! hmmmm (thinks) ...
Interesting. And next door in Michigan the State cut secondary funding to balance the budget so we're looking at double digit (10-14%) tuition increases. So much for our governor's committment to higher education.
Got a broadcast communications major and women's lacrosse team?
My eldest is starting to look for schools.
No lacrosse, although there is a lacrosse club -- here's the list of sports. We have a communications major, but not specifically in broadcast. This is a liberal arts college! She should come here and get an education both broad and deep, rather than narrow vocational training.
I sometimes wonder how my life would have been different if I went to the Morris campus instead of the Twin Cities campus all those many years ago. I hear Morris is a terrific school, a deliberately well kept secret.
I'm sure Morris is a fantastic place, but send your kids to Southern Illinois University Carbondale! Our tuition has only gone up a little...each of the past several years.
But we have a cool mascot. Come on! Show us some love!
(hey....maybe I can get a raise for plugging my university? Nah, because PZ will probably zap this comment...drat!)
But SIUC has over 20,000 students! Why would anyone want to go to such an impersonal factory school when they could come to Morris and get loads of personal attention and love? We're a tenth your size, and ten times better.
(Inter-school rivalries are fun. Let's join together and slag Harvard next.)
Great, the idiots at MnSCU* wouldn't even agree to cap the tuition at the current level. Our Winona State students are looking at another 3 to 5% raise.
*Minnesota State Colleges and Universities - all of the other non-U of Minnesota state schools. Seven 4 year uni's and a shit load of community and technical schools scattered throughout "greater Minnesota."
Good news for me! :)
No way. I envision Minnesota as a frozen tundra. Why would I want to send my kids to a school built on perma-frost? (I kid!)
I'm starting up this fall as a 24-year old freshman at Portland State. If I'd known that you guys at UM Morris didn't charge nonresident tuition and were that cheap maybe I would have applied there as well.
Go! Cougars! Go!
I'm glad to hear tuition is going in the right direction.
Hmmm . . . PZ pleads for people to,
Send your kids here!
right above a message entitled,
They're running out of virgins!
Could there be a problem with the supply of suitable sacrifice victims there in Morris?
Tuition went DOWN somewhere? Woah.