Minnesota State may close campuses, merge schools in effort to ‘right-size’

  • Year Published : 2026
  • Month Published : September

A KARE 11 report examines possible campus closures and mergers within Minnesota State as the system responds to financial pressures. WICHE’s Colleen Falkenstern discusses how demographic change is contributing to enrollment challenges, and the report cites WICHE projections that Minnesota’s number of high school graduates could decline 15% over the next 15 years. View original source.

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