General College Eliminated in Restructuring Plan (MN)

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The University of Minnesota Board of Regents voted Friday to eliminate the General College as part of the most sweeping restructuring of the university in decades. <snip>

The part of the plan to eliminate the General College drew about a half-dozen protesters to the meeting room in the McNamara Alumni Center. The plan turns the General College into a department within the College of Education and Human Development.

For nearly 75 years, General College has kept a door open to underprepared students, offering an intensive focus on English, writing and math so those students could transfer to other colleges within the university. <snip>

Those protesting on Friday called Bruininks' plan elitist and said some low income and minority students would suffer. <snip>

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=99214

[skooooo]

1. Keep them dumb and poor.

That's the republican mantra.

[loro mi dicevano]

2. Well, fuck.