New U of M president says professors must innovate or 'step aside'

New University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler says professors with stale or ineffective classes must refresh or step aside. He made the comments during his inauguration as the university’s 16th president. He promises to take on bureaucracy and cut administrative costs for every year he has his post.

Author:: BMTN Staff
Updated:: Mar 8, 2018
Original:: Sep 23, 2011

New University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler says professors with stale or ineffective classes must refresh or step aside. He made the comments during his inauguration as the university’s 16th president. He promises to take on bureaucracy and cut administrative costs for every year he has his post.

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A faculty procession and a sense of change accompanied the ceremony to welcome the University of Minnesota's next president. Eric Kaler becomes the university's 16th president. He replaces Robert Bruininks who is retiring his administration post, but will return to teaching.

Incoming VP and Provost Karen Hanson brings a background in the humanities at a time when the liberal arts are under attack. University President Eric Kaler says her education will help balance his own as an engineer. Hanson has said that making the case for the humanities "will have to be made again and again."

Kaler will kick off the week touring the St. Paul and Minneapolis campuses Monday. He'll then throw out the first pitch at the Twins game later in the week before the officials ceremony on Thursday.

The university's new president, Eric Kaler, says the school will move away from a "can't do it, never done it, won't do it" mentality to "yes, let's give it a try." He spoke recently to hundreds of alumni and others at an event at the Carlson School of Management.

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The budget for next school year approved by the University of Minnesota Board of Regents Friday will raise undergraduate tuition by 3.5 percent and fund as many as 100 new faculty. U of M President Eric Kaler said the tuition increase was the lowest in the past 12 years at the university.

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