Northern Minnesota higher-ed campuses form alliance
About 20 campuses in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system have formed an alliance across northern Minnesota. They want to compete less and collaborate more. “We all know that it can’t be any longer about our institutions. It has to be about our regional economies and how to better serve our students,” MSU-Moorhead President Edna Szymanski told Amy Dalrymple of the Fargo Forum . In fact, some two-year colleges want to bring four-year degrees to their communities. “A number of people in our rural areas are hungry for higher-ed opportunities, but they can’t dislocate from their jobs or families to pursue that,” said Anne Temte, president of Northland Community and Technical College. The colleges are also looking to collaborate on some administrative tasks such as payroll. The MnSCU universities in Moorhead and Bemidji are part of the alliance, as is Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall because it serves a rural area with similar needs, Szymanski said. Community colleges in International Falls, Thief River Falls, East Grand Forks, Grand Rapids, Hibbing, Virginia, Eveleth, Ely, Duluth, Cloquet, Detroit Lakes, Wadena, Staples, Brainerd, Fergus Falls and Alexandria are involved.
The Bemidji School District has long gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to how much the state provides it to bus students to school. Anne Williams of the Bemidji Pioneer interviewed Chris Leinen, Bemidji’s director of business services. The bottom line: In 2009-10 the district received roughly $2.3 million in transportation revenue, but it cost $2.8 million to transport students, putting the district roughly $575,000 in the red. This comes out of the district’s general budget, which is money it couldn’t use to buy books or lower class sizes.
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Foster will receive his salary through March and benefits, including full health-insurance coverage, through June. Board members Mary Cameron voted against the resolution, saying she “had a problem with the process,” but wouldn't elaborate.
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A 20-year-old Maple Falls man was stabbed to death in an apparent gang attack late Saturday, Jan. 14, Whatcom County sheriff's officials said.
No one was in custody in connection with the man's death, because the stabbing appears to have been done in self-defense, said Sheriff Bill Elfo.
Elfo said detectives and crime-scene technicians were still processing evidence, and authorities had yet to discuss the case with county prosecutors.
"Still, there are strong indications that this was an issue involving self-defense," Elfo said in a phone call Sunday afternoon.
Elfo said people involved in the incident are members of a local street gang known as Insane Clown Posse, after the Detroit rap duo. Members call themselves Juggalos or Juggalettes.
More than 100 members of the gang are known to law-enforcement authorities in Whatcom County, Elfo told The Herald in 2011. Many members have extensive criminal records, he said.
Citing the ongoing investigation, Elfo said authorities were unable to release the names of both the victim and the person who stabbed him. Elfo said the man who apparently used the knife to defend himself is cooperating with detectives and didn't suffer permanent injury.
A statement issued by the Sheriff's Office early Sunday said deputies were summoned to a report of a stabbing in the Maple Falls area about 11 p.m. Saturday. Authorities said it appears that an argument occurred among a group of people, which led to a fight. During the fight, a man was struck in the head with an object. That man used a pocket knife to defend himself, stabbing his assailant, according to the statement.
Meanwhile, firefighter-paramedics with Whatcom Medic One and volunteer firefighters with Whatcom County Fire District 14 were dispatched to a report of a stabbing victim at their Kendall fire station about 11:25 p.m. Saturday. A few minutes later, firefighters were dispatched to a report of someone who had been struck in the head with a chain at another Maple Falls address.