STAT July 21, 2025
Q&A with Rebecca Cunningham, who’s leaning on her experience as an emergency physician
Long before she became president of the University of Minnesota, Rebecca Cunningham trained in emergency medicine. She draws on that experience often these days.
Cunningham, who is also a public health researcher, is just a year into steering a public university with five campuses and more than 70,000 students through a time of profound uncertainty. UMN has seen grants terminated, an international student arrested, and state support flatline. Amid all this turmoil, she has had to propose a budget for the 2026 fiscal year.
The situation Cunningham finds herself in echoes that of academic leaders throughout the U.S. right now. To understand how she is steering her...
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