MnSCU

Two faculty unions have pulled out of a long-term planning process in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.

The chancellor of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system has agreed to a new three-year contract.

St. Cloud Technical and Community College is set to receive nearly $575,000 in grant money for job skills training programs.

An appeals court says Minnesota State College and Universities must release faculty course materials to an organization that scrutinizes teacher prep programs.

The Board of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system has approved a budget that freezes tuition. MnSCU's $1.9 billion budget uses a state funding boost to hold next year's tuition to this year's rate. Fees will stay nearly flat.

College students in Minnesota will be getting a temporary break as lawmakers recently passed a tuition freeze for all MnSCU schools and the University of Minnesota.

Negotiators have reached tentative agreement on a contract covering non-teaching faculty who work at Minnesota's seven state universities. The contract would effect both St. Cloud State University and St. Cloud Technical and Community College who belong to the MnSCU system.

Faculty union reps for Minnesota's seven state universities have reached a tentative contract agreement with officials of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. Inter Faculty Organization President Nancy Black says the two-year agreement would give all faculty members a 2.2 percent raise and is retroactive to this past fall.

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system plans to ask legislators for more money over the next two years.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has penalized the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system for hazardous waste violations at two schools. The violations occurred at St. Cloud Technical and Community College and at Central Lakes College in Brainerd.