The Case for Building New Public Universities
Earlier this year I flew to Rochester, Minnesota, where I learned how fast heat will depart from the human body if you’re dumb enough to travel north of the 44th parallel in winter without proper insulation. (Answer: very.) I also visited the new branch campus of the University of Minnesota and wrote an article about it for the new issue of Washington Montly. You can read it here.
They’re doing a lot of interesting things at UMR. There are no academic departments and every undergraduate (the first class matriculated a year ago) is pursuing a B.S. in health sciences. Professors from the humanities and the sciences coordinate their curricula on a week-by-week basis, so a student might synthesize