Publications

System Publications

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	Go places, 2009-2010 (2374 KB PDF) September 2009 A guide to all Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
	Amazing Facts about Minnesota State Colleges & Universities (168 KB PDF) May 2009 The Amazing Facts booklet is a handy reference guide for facts about the Minnesota State system and the 25 community and technical colleges and seven state universities that it comprises. The booklet also provides a succinct overview of the mission, vision, scope and governance of the system.
	Workforce of the Future: Leadership Reaches Out to Business (1 MB PDF) May 2009
	The Minnesota State Colleges & Universities Magazine (3.0 MB PDF) Spring 2009, Vol. 4, No. 2 Fall 2008 issue Spring 2008 issue Fall 2007 issue Spring 2007 issue Fall 2006 issue Spring 2006 issue
	Make college a part of your future (PDF, English) January 2009 A brochure in nine languages for prospective students and their family members and mentors with basic, useful information about the benefits of college, including costs and types of financial aid, and how to apply to the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. Available in nine languages: Dakota (PDF) English (PDF) French (PDF) Hmong (PDF) Ojibwe (PDF) Somali (PDF) Spanish (PDF) Russian (PDF) Vietnamese (PDF)
	Open for Business: Your Guide to Training, Education and Business Services (5.6 MB PDF) September 2008 The Open for Business guide presents an array of business and industry services offered by the system's 32 public colleges and universities. These services are designed to help employers, businesses and organizations with their education and training needs.
	Designing the Future: Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Strategic Plan 2008-2012 (1.87 MB PDF) July 2008 Approved by the Board of Trustees, January 19, 2006; Revisions adopted March 2008 One page summary of 2008-2012 plan (PDF) 2006-2010 Strategic Plan (2.67 MB PDF) One page summary of 2006-2010 plan (PDF) 2002-2005 Strategic Plan (335 KB PDF) One-page summary of 2002-2005 plan (PDF) Annual Action Plan
	Fast, Secure, Reliable: building a strong technology network (194 KB PDF) April 2008 The Fast, Secure, Reliable brochure outlines the four major goals of the system's technology initiative. A $62.8 million investment, made possible by funding from the governor and the Minnesota Legislature, is helping to overhaul and strengthen the technology network that serves the 32 colleges and universities.
	Got Plans? (527 KB PDF) May 2007 The Got Plans? brochure outlines higher education options available at the system's two-year colleges. The system's 25 two-year colleges can help undergraduates get a great start on a four-year degree or students can choose from many professional career programs that can help them get a job in two years or less.
	Careers in health care brochure (900 KB PDF) June 2008
	Minnesota State Colleges & Universities: Where bioscience education goes to work (654 KB PDF) January 2006
	Discover the difference customized training and education can make for your company Spring 2004 The "Discover the difference" brochure introduces Minnesota businesses to Minnesota State Colleges and Universities' network of customized training and education programs and features profiles of Minnesota companies that have benefitted from training programs developed in partnership with the system's colleges and universities.
	Magnifying Minnesota's potential 2003 Annual Report (5.7 MB PDF) published March 2004
	Looking out for Minnesota brochure (4.8 MB PDF) August 2003

Centers of Excellence Evaluations

The Economic Impact of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities report cover

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Centers of Excellence program evaluation (full report)
Year 1 (2005-06) progress report
(684 KB PDF)
published January 2007

Prepared by: Ellen Shelton, Brian Pittman, and Greg Owen
Wilder Research

View Year 1 (2005-06) program evaluation summary

Budget Requests

Capital Budget Requests

Concrete Investments: Building Jobs, Knowledge, and Opportunity (pdf)
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities' 2010 Capital Budget Request
September 2009

Building a Smarter Minnesota: 382,000 Reasons to Reinvest (PDF)
January 2008

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities' 2008 Capital Budget Request

Space to Learn: Shaping Minnesota's Future (PDF)
2006-2007 capital budget request

Maintaining the edge: 2004-2005 capital budget request (PDF)

Federal Budget Requests

Federal budget 2010 appropriations requests
June 2009

Project descriptions of the annual federal budget requests made by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.

Federal budget 2009 appropriations requests
March 2008

Federal budget 2008 appropriations requests
March 2007

Federal budget 2007 appropriations requests
February 2006

Minnesota State Colleges & Universities Budget Request 2008-2009 cover

Operating Budget Requests

Educating Minnesota: Meeting the Challenge (PDF)
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Budget Request 2008-2009
Janaury 2007

2006 supplemental budget request (PDF)

Degrees of success: Making Minnesota work (PDF)
January 2005

Legislative Reports

	Legislative Mandates and Curiosities Publication that highlights and summarizes the new laws relating to higher education in Minnesota. 2009 Mandates and Curiosities (PDF) 2008 Mandates and Curiosities (PDF) 2007 Mandates and Curiosities (PDF) 2006 Mandates and Curiosities (PDF) 2005 Mandates and Curiosities (PDF) 2004 Mandates and Curiosities (PDF)
	Postsecondary Planning: A Joint Report to the Minnesota Legislature (159 KB PDF) February 2009 The 2009 Post-Secondary Planning Report is the fourth report produced jointly by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities and the University of Minnesota. The report reflects the long-term, ongoing, and effective working relationship between the two systems to develop and coordinate joint post-secondary programs in the Twin Cities and throughout Minnesota. 2007 Postsecondary Planning report 2005 Postsecondary Planning report 2003 Postsecondary Planning report
	Getting prepared: A 2008 report on recent high school graduates who took developmental/remedial courses (1.5 MB PDF) April 2008 This document contains reports that provide information to school districts throughout Minnesota on their recent high school graduates who took developmental or remedial courses at either of the public systems within two years after graduation. 2005 getting prepared report (PDF)
	2008 Accountability Report to the Legislature (PDF) February 2008 2007 Accountability Report (PDF) 2005 Accountability Report (PDF) 2003 Accountability Report (PDF)

Other Publications

	System fact book (2.4 MB PDF) November 2007 The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Fact Book contains more than 60 tables (201 pages) with recent and trend information on the system's students and graduates. Information is reported at both the system and institutional levels.
	Education Financing Survey (200 KB PDF) March 2005 This study captures a picture of the ways in which Minnesota State Colleges and Universities students finance postsecondary education and how they view college costs. Surveying more than 600 system students across the state, we asked about their educational funding sources, resources used to pay for educational expenses, and the impact of educational debt on their studies, work life, and financial situations.
	The Economic Impact of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (Updated statewide estimates and local estimates for universities) (88 KB PDF) July 2006 Prepared by Paul A. Anton and Nicole Behling Wilder Research The Economic Impact of Minnesota's State Colleges and Universities (updated statewide and local estimates) (55 KB PDF) October 2003 A report prepared by Anton, Lubov & Associates The Economic Impact of Minnesota's State Colleges and Universities (53 KB PDF) August 2002 A report prepared by Anton, Lubov & Associates
	Office of Internal Auditing: Post-Secondary Enrollment Options Program, Final Report (1.13 MB PDF) July 2001

Last updated: 9/09