No more mac & cheese, please!

Is "money management" a foreign concept to you? Is your idea of washing clothes just throwing everything into one overstuffed load of both darks and lights? Or how about your cooking skills? Are they limited to dumping a box of noodles into boiling water and adding cheese from a packet?

If these traits currently describe your domestic skills, are you still questioning why your parents are worried to send you off to college on your own?!? Well, worry no more (or at least less) because the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities is here to help you improve your independent lifestyle in healthy ways!

Photo courtesy of StarTribune.com 

A recent Star Tribune article discusses ways in which the U of M is taking steps to educate college students living on their own through classes. The course topics range from personal relationships, ways to stay out of credit card debt, to cooking class with nutrition majors in your own apartment! Read more ways to be independent the smart and healthy way at the University of Minnesota by reading the entire article HERE!

Final Destination: Graduation

Are you feeling stressed while finishing up your rigorous high school courses and college planning? Read one University of Minnesota professor's perspective on the culmination of it all--graduation day.

Letter of the day: Graduation day is a moment when dreams come true.
-Star Tribune Opinion Letters

This is the season of graduations at the University of Minnesota. When I step out of our building, I see families with joy on their faces walking toward Northrop Auditorium. I see mothers and fathers, younger and older siblings, and even grandparents all walking toward Northrop. They are attending the graduation of their brother or sister, or son or daughter, or grandson or granddaughter.

This is a day that mothers and fathers dreamt about when their child was born; they planned for this day all those years when their child was growing up and going to school, and they probably had to put aside money to pay for it all. But today-- today is graduation, the culmination of it all. Today their child becomes a person to be reckoned with, a professional, someone who will change the world.

For me, a professor, this is the happiest time of the academic year, for I had a small part in these graduates' educations. I, too, am proud of them and wish them well.

-BRUCE F. WOLLENBERG, Minneapolis

How can you make a difference?

The mission and vision of the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) is to make a better future for everyone. Getting involved in community service is a fantastic way to help make a difference in the world. Community involvment is also a good way to make you a well-rounded applicant to the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Once you are a student here, you will have countless opportunities to build upon your high school involvement and help make a difference in your new University community.

Learn how our CEHD students are volunteering within the campus community by watching this CEHD video!