Senate Higher Education Committee on 2/21/2023

Bills

Committee Members

Sen. Omar Fateh

Senate, 62, DFL, sen.omar.fateh@senate.mn, 651-296-4261

(Heard as: Fateh Fatih Fatte Fatah )

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Sen. Aric Putnam

Senate, 14, DFL, sen.aric.putnam@senate.mn, 651-296-6455

(Heard as: Putnam )

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Sen. Zach Duckworth

Senate, 57, R, sen.zach.duckworth@senate.mn, 651-296-7633

(Heard as: Duckworth )

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Sen. Robert Farnsworth

Senate, 7, R, sen.robert.farnsworth@senate.mn, 651-296-8436

Sen. Robert Kupec

Senate, 4, DFL, sen.robert.kupec@senate.mn, 651-296-3205

(Heard as: Klupec Kupiec )

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Sen. Erin Murphy

Senate, 64, DFL, sen.erin.murphy@senate.mn, 651-296-5931

(Heard as: Murphy )

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Sen. Clare Oumou Verbeten

Senate, 66, DFL, sen.clare.oumouverbeten@senate.mn, 651-296-8866

Sen. Jason Rarick

Senate, 11, R, sen.jason.rarick@senate.mn, 651-296-1508

(Heard as: Rarick )

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Noteworthy Content:

00:04:07,140 - For the equity piece,

00:12:38,300 - Minnesota faces sizable equity gaps between the enrollment

00:13:20,360 - at these equity gaps.

00:14:08,740 - points to the potential of free college programs to close equity gaps.

00:19:23,000 - and more specifically, race equity and education in Minnesota.

00:19:44,360 - We were doing race equity work long before race equity was ever even a term or a phrase,

00:19:52,560 - and for those watching is what do we mean when we say that we are seeking race equity in higher education?

00:20:00,700 - MNEEP defines race equity as

00:20:05,480 - where people of color and indigenous people,

00:20:17,860 - Race equity in education and more specifically in higher education

00:20:35,260 - To that end, race equity in education and in higher

00:20:37,520 - education is not merely a value or the absence of racial inequities or disparities.

00:21:02,660 - education or see our higher education systems through the lens of race equity and in particular

00:21:27,840 - and racial equity centered investment in higher education writ large

00:22:03,600 - for all students and for people of color and indigenous.

00:22:12,240 - and racial equity centered investments in higher education.

00:22:37,720 - based on race and ethnicity in our state.

00:22:57,040 - and stand ready before the chair and the committee to convene and hold space for racial equity to thrive

00:23:05,780 - and racial equity centered higher education agenda forward.

00:29:59,540 - your committee would be working to close the equity gap that has led to our

01:04:06,240 - We started fall 2019 with news of faculty and staff layoffs due to structural deficits and we ended that academic year in a pandemic.