Like a great many higher ed institutions, St. Cloud State has been struggling with significantly declining enrollment and the internal stresses related to that. What to do? “We have to provide more than one pathway for people to get an education,” says Robbyn Wacker, who’s been president since 2018. That includes offering in-person and online curricula, as well as hybrids. St. Cloud State also recently introduced Huskies Advance, a program that allows students to work with a mentor to create a customized set of real-world experiences to fit the field of study they wish to pursue.

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