Year: 2016

Dr. Richard Davenport, president of Minnesota State University Mankato, joins us again to talk about the role of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system in Greater Minnesota. He discusses how the system addresses retention of talent by taking the education to where the students are and designing programs to help students get through in a ...

This week Dr. Richard Davenport, president of Minnesota State University Mankato joins us to talk about the role of MnSCU schools in Greater Minnesota to provide access for students and to train the state’s workforce. Higher education in Greater Minnesota

Fred Nolan, executive director of the Minnesota Rural Education Association, joins again to give a brief lesson in the history of school funding and how equalization of funding for facilities has skewed dramatically back to local tax rolls over the last several years. School funding and a history lesson, pt 2

Fred Nolan, executive director of the Minnesota Rural Education Association, joins us this week on RuralMN Radio to talk about a tax relief measure that has gotten caught up in the activity of the recent legislative session. The bill, which would provide tax relief for ag land when it comes to school facility bonding, was ...

Wade Fauth, vice president of the Blandin Foundation in Grand Rapids, joins us again to talk about the role of philanthropy in rural areas and how people can serve their communities by becoming part of the giving. Blandin: Giving in Greater MN, part 2

Minnesota is home to many charitable foundations. The trouble is that most of them focus their giving in the metro area. Wade Fauth, vice president of the Blandin Foundation, joins us this week to give us the background on this Itasca County foundation, its founder, and why he was motivated to concentrate on Greater Minnesota. ...

We talk with Brad Finstad, CEO of the Center for Rural Policy and Development, to discuss just what happened at this year’s shortened legislative session, where rural Minnesota is at, and what might happen next. A look at the 2016 session

Ron Zeigler of CEDA joins us again this week to talk about economic development in southeastern Minnesota. The big challenges he sees are the shortage of workers for the number of job opportunities and a shortage of worker-based housing. Ron Zeigler and CEDA, part 2

Ron Zeigler is president of CEDA, Community and Economic Development Associates, and he joins us this week on RuralMN Radio. CEDA provides staffing solutions to small communities in SE Minnesota, NE Iowa and SW Wisconsin, especially in the areas of economic development. For small communities, hiring a full-time economic developer might not be practical or ...