College History Garden

Chris Gehrz offers interesting reflections on five key turning points in Bethel University 's 150-year history, " Persevere: A Chri...

Minnesota State University Moorhead, founded in 1888, is celebrating the centennial of becoming a teachers college in 1921 . The article by ...

Angie Wieck reports on Inforum website that " Rasmussen College celebrates recent transition to Rasmussen University ." The for-p...

Bemidji State University in Minnesota has been celebrating its centennial and the institution's history is featured a new exhibit.  ...

Katie Galioto reported for the Minneapolis Star Tribune on June 26, 2019 that " After 145 years, Minneapolis Business College to clo...

WJON radio published a five part series by Ashli Overlund in 2013, A Century of Connection , focusing on a century of history at St. Ben...

Normandale Community College in Bloomington, MN is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its founding in 1968.  The anniversary web pages ...

Minnesota State University Mankato is celebrating the 150th anniversary of its founding as Mankato State Normal School in 1868. You ca...

St. Cloud State University in Minnesota is preparing to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its founding in 186 9.  The initial sesquicent...

The Mankato Free Press published a retrospective article March 5, 2018, " Mankato site of state's first public vo-tech ," ...

Minnesota Public Radio offered details surrounding the closure of McNally Smith College of Music in a post on December 15, 2107, " M...

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports in " Duluth's oldest university closing after 126 years " that Duluth Business Univers...

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported on March 2, 2017 that Augsburg College will become a university with the beginning of the upcoming...

Carrie Hatler provides an interesting historical post " St. Agatha's Conservatory of Music and Art ," on the Forgotten Minn...

KAAL-TV in Minnesota reports that Crossroads College in Rochester will be closing and will not offer fall classes.  An announcement on t...

Inside Higher Ed reports on December 17, 2015 that Le Cordon Bleu Colleges of Culinary Art will no longer accept new students and inte...

Chris Gehrz posted a description on The Pietist Schoolman blog of web pages devoted to the history of Bethel University during this pas...

Laura Urban, president of Alexandria Technical and Community College (ATCC) provides a brief history of the institution in an article for...

There have been a number of interesting articles and blog posts this week focusing on operations of several for-profit institutions. Mandi...

The Winona Daily News featured the history of Winona State University in a recent article .  Ron Marose writes about the founding as Min...