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.

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 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.

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.

Special paid leaves tailored for University of Minnesota administrators who return to teaching at their higher administrative pay would end under a recommendation made Monday by President Eric Kaler's staff. Instead, administrators returning to the faculty could take traditional sabbaticals, less generous in pay and length.

Of the estimated 5,500 new freshmen, about 87 percent have chosen to live on campus, the U reports. Thousands of first-year students are moving into residence halls and apartments this week. University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler and his wife, Karen Kaler, were greeting first-year students moving into the U of M SuperBlock residence halls Monday.

Discoveries by researchers at the University of Minnesota led to a record 12 startup companies in fiscal 2012, according to a news release. “The diverse range of disciplines represented in these 12 startup companies demonstrates what a valuable resource the University of Minnesota is to businesses in this state, and beyond," president Eric Kaler wrote.