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• Global Opportunity Tanzania

  - 2008-07-01

  An exciting opportunity has begun in Tanzania: a chance to improve the living conditions of farmers by moving them from below-subsistence production to having sufficient surplus to market and realize profit. Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in Africa. The per capita income is $280 per year, compared to...

  Tags: education, Education, Leadership, U.S., University of Minnesota

• University of Minnesota receives RITA grant for transportation education and research.

  - 2005-07-05

  M2 PRESSWIRE-5 July 2005-US DOT: University of Minnesota receives RITA grant for transportation education and researchC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05072005 The U.S. Department of Transportations Research and Innovative Technology Administration RITA announced today that $3.1 million in grant money was...

  Tags: education, Transportation, University of Minnesota

• Many U.S. Commercial Farms Run by People with Strong Educational Credentials.

  - 2003-05-04

  By Lee Egerstrom, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 4--GLENWOOD, Minn.--Suzanne Vold, class of 1991, admits that a lot of her college friends have trouble understanding what she is doing out on a dairy farm in western Minnesota....

  Tags: agriculture, education, FINANCE, MARKETING, Minnesota, University of Minnesota

• Minnesota Budget Cuts Likely to Bring Steep Tuition Hikes.

  - 2003-02-19

  Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 19--While public school students were spared nasty budget cuts by Gov. Tim Pawlenty, their older brothers and sisters in college were not. Pawlenty's budget proposal cuts 9 percent in state spending...

  Tags: education, Governor, University of Minnesota

• Learning & living difference that makes a difference: Postmodern theory & multicultural education

  - 2002-07-01

  RECENTLY A COLLEAGUE and I discussed the apparently thorough-going "politically correct" racial discourse in her predominantly White lower-level university class. Her "Blues in Shifting Cultural Contexts" students, it seems, passionately argue that early 20th century American blues (performed almost exclusively by African-- Americans) is the most "authentic" period, but are...

  Tags: agent, America, Cambridge, Creature, education, Gordon, identity, M., media, Minneapolis, teacher, theory, University of Minnesota

• Small schools - Bits and pieces - education

  - 2001-12-01

  The value of small schools is described in a new report produced by the Center for School Change at the University of Minnesota. The report, "Smaller, Safer, Saner Successful Schools," offers briefcase studies of 22 public school buildings in 12 states. For copies, contact National Clearinghouse for Educational...

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• An old dream in trouble; Land-grant universities; The plight of land-grant universities.(United States)(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)

  - 2001-06-02

  THE president of the University of Minnesota is not a happy man. Mark Yudof recently asked the state legislature for another $221m for his university. In a blustery fit of fiscal conservatism, Minnesota's governor, Jesse Ventura, said it should get only a quarter of that. As...

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• Marriage Education Satellite Conference Sept. 7.

  - 2000-09-04

  M2 PRESSWIRE-4 September 2000-Texas A&M University: Marriage Education Satellite Conference Sept. 7 C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:01092000 DALLAS -- Four internationally recognized experts on marriage education will be featured in an interactive satellite hook-up Sept. 7 from 2 to...

  Tags: conference, Dallas, Dr., education, Texas, University of Minnesota

• Student development: What does it mean?

  - 1999-09-01

  Three different uses of the term student development-humanism, complexity, and developmental stage theory-are reviewed. The latter is thought to be the most fruitful for the use of student personnel work. Two examples of the use of stage or hierarchal developmental theory for making changes in student personnel structures are described....

  Tags: Bureau, CAREER, education, theory, University of Minnesota

• -U.S. DOT: Slater announces $1.8 million grant to University of Minnesota.

  - 1998-10-23

  M2 PRESSWIRE-23 October 1998-U.S. DOT: Slater announces $1.8 million grant to University of Minnesota C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:201098 MINNEAPOLIS -- U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater today announced the award of a $1.8 million federal grant to the ...

  Tags: education, Transportation, University of Minnesota