Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), December 17th, 2005
Byline: Mary Jane Smetanka; Staff Writer
What exactly does a top-three public research university look like?
Worldly. Ambitious. More elite. More demanding. More attractive to the best students. And in some cases, expensive.
Those are the answers University of Minnesota leaders got when they asked faculty members and students to help figure it out.
In one of the big steps toward the university's goal of becoming one of the top three public research universities in the next decade, 300 pages of task force proposals, made public Friday, fleshed out the university's ambitions with prelimina...
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