TALKING ABOUT COMMUNITY JOURNALISM

Hamline University School of Business Professor of Practice Jim Scheibel invited Midway Como Frogtown Monitor owner and editor Tesha M. Christensen to speak to his “The City as University: Hamline Without Walls” freshman class on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Students will be reading copies of the Monitor each month and discussing what’s happening in the community. Scheibel was one of the founders of the Westside Voice, the first 501c3 paper in the country, and also started the Sunrise for the greater St. Paul eastside.

ECONOMIC MOBILITY INDEX RANKS HAMLINE
Hamline University is a top-ranked university in the nation when measuring the economic value of undergraduate degrees, according to the Economic Mobility Index published by national research institute Third Way. Hamline is one of only four universities throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and the Dakotas that rate within the top 20% for economic mobility, and is Minnesota’s only nonprofit private institution among that group.