When he enrolled in Minnesota State Mankato’s Department of Automotive and Manufacturing Engineering Technology in the 1990s, Josh Tavel never dreamed one day he’d help steer an electric vehicle (EV) … [Read more...]
Educational Leadership: Heather Mueller
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Minnesota’s top education official might not have ended up in the state at all if she hadn’t been the sort of person to dig in and do her homework when it came time to choose a college. Heather … [Read more...]
A Warrior for Warriors
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Ryan Haugen knows what gun oil tastes like. He knows this because he also knows what it feels like to hold the barrel of a pistol in his mouth, and what goes through your mind when you’re … [Read more...]
Education and Liberation
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The war stories Edward Inch heard as a child, at least the ones that influenced him most, dealt less with battles and more with children in prison camps being educated in secret. These first-hand … [Read more...]
Beyond ‘Brains’
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Author and English professor Robin Becker is hitting the road this fall, returning to a route she took in the mid-1980s as a punk rock vagabond traveling the West Coast in a Volkswagen … [Read more...]
A Special Addition
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Simale Kadir joined the University’s National Association of Black Accountants chapter mostly because it was another club to join—not because of any overriding passion for accounting, … [Read more...]