Greetings!
It is a pleasure to welcome you to 麻豆直播, a member of Minnesota State. Metro State, a comprehensive public urban university, serves more than 10,500 people throughout the metropolitan area. We are a welcoming, diverse community dedicated to providing high-quality educational opportunity through extraordinary faculty to enrich and empower the people of the Twin Cities, the state of Minnesota, and beyond.
One way that Metro State鈥檚 impact has been measured is our strong rating by CollegeNet鈥檚 Social Mobility Index, measuring colleges鈥 and universities鈥 success in elevating students from low income strata into the middle class by five years after graduation. According to the index鈥檚 2022 data, we rank twenty-second in the nation (or in the top 1.6 percent), and first in Minnesota. While we can do much to improve this outcome, this recognition is encouraging and life-changing for students, and their families.
As I reflect on our core value of providing lifelong learning opportunities, I think of the words of acquaintance and colleague Jaime Casap, an education expert at Google, Inc., who notes that instead of asking students, 鈥淲hat do you want to major in?鈥 colleges should ask them 鈥淲hat problem do you want to solve?鈥 Then they should help each student create a program to support solving that problem. From our individualized studies programs to the practical, applied approach of our programs as a whole, I hope that Metro State can be your partner in preparing you to solve the problems you find most important.
Sincerely,
Virginia 鈥淕inny鈥 Arthur, JD
President
