Higher ed leaders plead for state's future - Lori Sturdevant, Star Tribune

A marker of the sorry state that Minnesota is in was the scene in Capitol Room 112 at 5:30 p.m. Saturday. The president of the University of Minnesota and chancellor of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities were hastily summoned to meet with legislative leaders and plead to be spared an additional $190 million spending cut proposed by Gov. Tim Pawlenty. Their pleas were not only for their institutions, but for this state's future.