Committee on Higher Education - 02/19/26

Minnesota Senate Education Committee · February 20, 2026

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Call to order and introductions

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Chair called the Education committee to order, asked Senator Putnam and other members to come to work, and introduced new Senate Council and fiscal analysts Louis Hunter and Erica Byrd, who each gave brief introductions.

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Minnesota State officials briefed the Senate Education Committee on enrollment fraud ("ghost students"), urging investment in automated identity-proofing, expanded safeguards, equity assessments, and ongoing legislative oversight; faculty and student witnesses described classroom impacts and urged protections for access.

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