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Introduction

Foreword

Transforming the University

1 - Institutional Profile

2 - Accreditation History

3 - Seven Key Challenges

  Challenge One

  Challenge Two

  Challenge Three

  Challenge Four

  Challenge Five

  Challenge Six

  Challenge Seven

Summary:
Linking University Performance to Commission Criteria

Appendices

Documents

Organizational Charts

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Articles

Articles:

February 2005

U puts its best foot forward

April 2005

Recommendations get mixed reaction

U aspires to be better brighter

U plan may fold 3rd college

U to close 2 colleges

How the u stacks up

U looks for top student recruiting tool

31 top u profs endorse plan

Bruininks discusses plan

City council wants gc to stay

Rally set for GC

Rally set for gc today

Students protest GC closure

May 2005

Colleges integrate fields

Plan suggests merging depts

Bruininks-Jones explain u position

Plan would evaluate grad school

9 Arrested in Sit-In

GC supporters arrested

Bruininks talks up plan

Plan to merge ag, natural resources

Alumni Association supports plan

U plan may save 25 million

U plan may shift college

Students take direct action

Devoted Defender

Regents hang fire on plan

Regents set to vote

Regents to vote on changes

U unveils merger plan

Protest shows personal side

Rally builds support for GC

GC dean accepts atlanta post

Weighing in on plan

June 2005

U plan might conflict with land grant

Dean to Leave U

GC supporters rally

U plan to draw elite professors

Regents to vote on plan

Regents likely to back changes

GC eliminated

Regents approve sweeping changes

U changes set in motion

Minnesota restructures

Bruininks - realist or elitist

July 2005

U must face access issue

U plan more taskforces

 

Editorials and Opinions:

April 2005

Building a great U

What the u can do better

Pushing athletes and U to higher standard

Plan trades away access

GC only nurturing environment

U calls this role model

Time for GC to go

May 2005

Access to what at U

Why a great u matters

U changing with times

Playing a new tune at the u

June 2005

U plan helps institution and state

Graduation rates

Consolidating GC will broaden access

 

News Releases:

April 2005

Distinguished profs endorse bold plan

Access to success

Deans endorse plan

U senate endorses plan

May 2005

U statement on student sit-in

June 2005

Regents approve strategic direction

 

TV-Radio:

May 2005

Bruininks unveils sweeping plan

President to present plan

Plan would close general college, human ecology

June 2005

Transforming the U

U hopes to increase elite professors

Regents to vote on changes

Regents vote to eliminate gc

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