Low graduation rates and poor student satisfaction among transfer students means the University of Minnesota will begin accepting fewer undergraduate transfers. The school plans for transfer students to make up 33 percent of their student population.

The school plans to cut about 300 students to help stabilize its transfer program. However, officials at the state's two-year colleges criticize the plan.

Police have identified a man who was stabbed to death at a north Minneapolis bus shelter on Friday. It was just a few days after another stabbing on a bus in St. Paul, and a few months after another fatal stabbing in St. Paul that stemmed from a bus argument that spilled onto the sidewalk.

Like many students, Lucas Kramer is almost done with high school and ready to enter college as a University of Minnesota freshman. Unlike his peers, he cannot drive to campus, ride on some amusement park rides, or got to R-rated movies.

The demonstration shut down traffic for about an hour Thursday afternoon. Minneapolis police arrested the activists for 'creating a public nuisance.' The protesters marched to the bridge to celebrate the two-month anniversary of the anti-Wall Street movement.

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.