Minnesota Private College Council

The path from a community college to a graduate program can seem long and daunting. But students transferring to a private college for their bachelor’s degrees are tapping into resources to personalize their education plan and take the next step to reach their career goals. We talked with students who transferred to Augsburg University, The College of St. Scholastica and Hamline University before heading onto grad school. https://lnkd.in/gfrqVXPw #TransferStudents #LiberalArts #Minnesota #HigherEd #GradSchool

Thank you for celebrating the Phillips Scholars Program's 30th Anniversary with the Minnesota Private College Fund! Thank you to our wonderful host Irma Márquez Trapero, and everyone who joined us for the evening! We appreciate everyone who joined us in the festivities, including U.S. Representative Dean Phillips, R.T. Rybak, the The Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesota, and The Minneapolis Foundation. It was wonderful to reconnect with alumni, campus coordinators and program supporters. The 2023-24 cohort shared their phenomenal projects, and we welcomed the 2024-25 cohort. We are grateful for the Phillips Scholars community. Thank you for being part of this amazing event! Photos by Dino Image (Manny Williamson)

The Star Tribune headline gets it right – Minnesota college students get smaller grants as state aid program faces $40 million shortfall. This is a last-minute curveball for students and the Legislature needs to act next session to fix the problem. https://lnkd.in/gBwwtZ3g #Minnesota #StateGrant #FinancialAid #StudentAid #HigherEd

This July the board of the Minnesota Private College Council and the Minnesota Private College Fund welcomes Marcheta Evans as the new president of St. Catherine University. We also have several new community members: Natalia Hernández from Breck School, Ethan Keller from Graco Inc. and Jacob Wolkowitz from Accredited Investors, Wealth Management. https://lnkd.in/eBxu93X

Bachelor’s degrees not only lead to good careers and higher earnings, but they also set people up for additional education, which leads to even better careers and earnings. Even accounting for the cost of education and not working while getting an education, investing in a college degree pays off according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce’s Learning and Earning by Degrees study. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g_pSsDA9 #college #CollegeDegrees #Careers #OpportunityCosts

Minneapolis College of Art and Design student Armel Mwanatambwe is getting hands-on photography and videography experience this summer as an assistant editor-producer intern with CallSign51. He connected with this career opportunity through our Achieve College Internships program, which links talented college students with high-quality paid summer internships, professional training, mentors and career networks at Twin Cities companies. An Eddie Phillips Scholar and participant in the Trailblazers Leadership Program with Minnesota Private College Council, Armel is working toward his bachelor’s degree in creative entrepreneurship with a focus on film.

Campus news spotlight: Maxfield Elementary School partners with the University of St. Thomas to improve learning outcomes for the school’s 350 pre-K-5 students. Along the way, leaders hope to develop and apply best practices for teaching and better prepare a new generation of teachers, with St. Thomas faculty exchanging ideas with veteran Maxfield educators and rolling out math and literacy tutoring to help Maxfield students. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gnve-sgU #Teachers #Teaching #Literacy #Minnesota

The Minnesota Legislature concluded in May with passage of some measures and others not making it to the finish line. The Promise Equalization Scholarship proposal, which would have increased financial aid for low- and middle-income students at private colleges, unfortunately didn’t pass. On the policy side, there were some successes this session for private nonprofit colleges and their students. https://lnkd.in/gRjpY2NE #Minnesota #HigherEd #HigherEducation #LiberalArts #MnLeg

Hands-on learning happens well beyond the classroom at Minnesota private colleges — from community engagement or off-campus field trips to study away and abroad programs. We checked in with our member colleges for examples of what students were learning off campus and where they ventured during the last academic year: https://lnkd.in/gE6T7SEx #StudyAway #StudyAbroad #Minnesota #LiberalArts #HigherEd #HigherEducation

QUICK FACT: Minnesota continues a longstanding trend of being a “net exporter” of undergraduate students — a higher number of Minnesota residents enroll out-of-state than the number of out-of-state residents who enroll at Minnesota institutions. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g6CVdCT4 #enrollment #QuickFact #data #Minnesota #HigherEd #HigherEducation