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Advisory council member Tom Swain is featured in Sid Hartman's column. He was recently honored with the University's Outstanding Achievement Award.

One of the great things Tom Swain's family and friends established and funded six years ago, on Swain's 80th birthday, was two fellowships per year at the Humphrey Institute for mid-career professionals seeking a Master of Public Affairs degree. Twelve people have completed the program on those scholarships.

Star Tribune
May 8, 2008

A Humphrey Institute fellowship created in the name of Charles Krusell is featured in this editorial.

For several decades, one name -- Charles Krusell -- was associated again and again with the most ambitious and successful efforts to improve Minneapolis housing and the urban environment.

That good name is now associated with a new fellowship for graduate students studying urban and regional planning and public policy at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute. It's a fitting tribute to the founder of the Greater Metropolitan Housing Corporation and the executive director of the Minneapolis Housing and Redevelopment Authority and the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce.

Star Tribune
March 25, 2008

Vice President Walter Mondale compared his days as vice president with the current administration at a recent conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance.

In a blistering close to his 30-minute presentation at the Humphrey Institute for Public Policy, Mondale said that in looking back on his tenure as Jimmy Carter's vice president, he took pride in three claims: "We told the truth; we obeyed the law; and we kept the peace." The Bush-Cheney administration, Mondale said, "can't say any of that with a straight face about those first four years. And it's cost us terribly. Let's not make that mistake again."

MinnPost.com
March 25, 2008