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
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
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
Access to what at U
Why a great u matters
U changing with times
Playing a new tune at the u
U plan helps institution and state
Graduation rates
Consolidating GC will broaden access
Distinguished profs endorse bold plan
Access to success
Deans endorse plan
U senate endorses plan
U statement on student sit-in
Regents approve strategic direction
Bruininks unveils sweeping plan
President to present plan
Plan would close general college, human ecology
Transforming the U
U hopes to increase elite professors
Regents vote to eliminate gc