Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System

Molly Castle-Work, Rochester.

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system approved the plan to shift money from its two-year colleges to help struggling universities.

The plan would reallocate up to $25 million each year for the next four years.

The majority of that amount, about $15 million a year, will go to St.

why wouldn't

they go? I mean, for what— Those schools, the main reason is Minnesota doesn't, the MNSCU, the administration, they don't want them to go.

Maybe they could do it.

I don't know.

If you look at the same data that Kelly and Julie are presenting, there's also the next step, which is post-secondary education outcomes.

And if you look at the two-year colleges, the Minnesota State Colleges, 77 percent, 70 percent of those graduates end up working in Northeast Minnesota two years after they graduate.

So the retention is quite high.

If you look at UMD, for example, about 22 percent of those graduates end up working in Northeast Minnesota.

Can you tell us about that?

yeah at board member nelson's request the board considered this letter to the minnesota state high school league which governs athletics in the state the letter essentially calls on the league to prohibit transgender students from playing on girls sports teams other districts have done similar including brainerd public schools just last week and at detroit lakes last night the board was again split four to two just like they were on the rainbow stickers and the letter was approved But one more twist, the letter needs to be signed by the school board's official designated representative to the league, and the person tasked with doing that is refusing to.

That's board member Julie Smith Yolanimi.

She says the Minnesota Human Rights Act protects trans athletes, so these changes to federal policy about trans people in women's sports, they just don't apply in Minnesota.

They say it's needed to meet the challenges and opportunities of today.

We'll hear more from them now.

First up, we have Minnesota State University Mankato Professor Rajiv Bukralia.

And Mankato began offering, I understand, their Master's in Artificial Intelligence program last year.

So they went to Cooper Rush, and then he got benched and went to an undrafted rookie out of...

Minnesota State, by way of Moorhead State, Jack Strand, who immediately went out and Russ turned it over three times and then first pass of his NFL career, Jack Strand threw a pick six.

Not since COVID

have we had a starting quarterback play this