(University of Minnesota)
in the Star-Tribune
Upset fan on Bruininks:
I'd be curious as to what the "very strong things" Bruininks has done academically might be.
Tuition for Minnesota residents has soared while he expanded the number of vice-presidents earning six-figure salaries, there aren't enough TAs to grade papers, his Driven to Discover campaign has done nothing to improve the U's national ranking - in fact it dropped this past year - and the U's own measure of the caliber of its students places it near the bottom of like-universities in median SAT scores and top 10% of high school graduating classes.
What Bruininks has done is invest a great deal of time and political capital into getting the new TCF Bank stadium built.
Yet for all the political and real capital expended, we're left with a stadium that isn't full at game time and a team that is a joke.
At the same time, the U men's hockey team has declined significantly while the men's basketball team seems to have topped out at good-but-not-great play under a national champion coach. From where I stand the administration has failed in both academics and athletics, some of the non-revenue sports notwithstanding.
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