University of Minnesota-Duluth tries to dig out of budget mess - MAURA LERNER , Star Tribune

After a year like this, it’s no wonder that the billboards are getting on Lendley Black’s nerves. As chancellor of the Duluth campus of the University of Minnesota, he’s been struggling with a budget crisis that was triggered, in part, by plunging student enrollment. Now a rival, North Dakota State University, has planted highway signs across town, trying to recruit students in his own back yard. “If I see one more billboard …” Black joked at a packed campus meeting on Thursday. Well, put it this way, he said. “If something happens to one of those billboards, I had nothing to do with it.” The crowd, mostly faculty and staff, laughed sympathetically. By all accounts, they share his frustration. http://www.startribune.com/local/259676721.html