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Casey Selix

Casey Selix, a former news editor at MinnPost, worked for the St. Paul Pioneer Press as an editor and writer. Her stories and/or essays also have appeared in the Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and other publications.

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Men outnumber women in MnSCU system's presidencies

By Casey Selix | 05/03/10
Two of the three semi-finalists for president of Bemidji State University are women, which got me to thinking: How many women are running the 32 schools in the Minnesota State Colleges & Universities System?
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Who’s your commencement speaker?

By Casey Selix | 04/30/10
My very incomplete survey shows Minnesota colleges and universities are drawing their share of notable speakers for this spring’s graduation ceremonies.
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Guess whose jobs don't get cut when university endowments shrink?

By Casey Selix | 04/29/10
Study of 200 doctoral universities finds predictable and not-so-predictable responses to seesawing endowments.
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Gender gap and the elephant in the room at the U

By Casey Selix | 04/28/10
The chair of the University of Minnesota Women's Faculty Cabinet plans to exemplify the issue Thursday.
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A surgeon-general in the making? Hopkins junior wins $35,000 scholarship for research on teen smoking

By Casey Selix | 04/27/10
Study found that information from peers affected attitudes about riskiness of smoking.
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2015 Committee lays out goals for a smaller, nimbler College of Liberal Arts at U of M

By Casey Selix | 04/26/10
In an age of declining state appropriations and shifting budget priorities how will the CLA preserve its heart and soul and prepare for a leaner future?
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Katie Couric is next in this week's parade of newsmakers at the University of Minnesota

By Casey Selix | 04/23/10
What a week for the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus. First, a talk by GOP strategist Karl Rove, then a high-profile British ex-U student in the news and now the CBS anchor.
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Seven Minnesota institutions make Princeton Review's first guide to 'exemplary green' campuses

By Casey Selix | 04/22/10
From Winona State's tobacco-free campus to Gustavus Adolfus College's Linnaeus Arboreturm, schools are singled out for their sustainability efforts.
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University of St. Thomas, the site of incivility at times, raises $1.2 million for an endowed chair in civil discourse

By Casey Selix | 04/21/10
Besides a program for first-year students and a campus lecture series launched this year, St.
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What if they offered health care and only a few signed up?

By Casey Selix | 04/02/10
Seventy-five percent of Minnesota's uninsured children are eligible for public health-care programs but their parents probably don't realize it.