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January 5, 2012 4:03 AM

What cell phones do to Tommie sleep habits

And I thought surfing the Net before bed, sleep-disrupting habit. TommieMedia has this piece on University of St. Thomas students explaining why they sleep near their cell phones — and how that habit has students across the nation losing an average of 45 minutes of sleep each night. Junior Drew Lindholm tells the news service:…

by Alex Friedrich

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January 5, 2012 2:04 AM

Notes in the Margins: Egypt, low-yield degrees and the tuition bubble

New study shows architecture, arts degrees yield highest unemployment Recent college graduates with bachelor’s degrees in the arts, humanities and architecture experienced significantly higher rates of joblessness, according to a study by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. (The Washington Post) Bursting the Tuition Bubble The common wisdom is that universities, bloated with tenured professors,…

by Alex Friedrich

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January 4, 2012 8:02 AM

How one Minnesota West official sees green jobs

After hearing that green technology is the new hot thing these days, I read that Duane Carrow, director of renewable energy programs at Minnesota West Community and Technical College, is singing a different tune. He tells the Marshall Independent: “Green jobs have not lived up to the hype. Everybody from the president on down said…

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January 4, 2012 5:17 AM

Northeastern won't be coming to Minnesota anytime soon

Don’t hold your breath for Northeastern University to establish a graduate-studies branch in Minnesota. After I reposted a New York Times article on the subject of expansion, late yesterday afternoon I talked with Northeastern spokesman Mike Armini, who said this state is just one of many the university is considering. He told me that although…

by Alex Friedrich

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January 4, 2012 4:00 AM

Employed students' workload puts studies at risk

Many students work to put themselves through college. But the number of hours they work puts their studies at risk, and worries university administrators.

by Tim Post

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January 4, 2012 3:19 AM

St. Cloud State's construction Web cam

I’ve already written about how proud Saint Cloud State University is about the Integrated Science and Engineering Laboratory Facility (ISELF) that it’s building. Now it has a Web cam so we can track the progress of construction, the St. Cloud Times reports.

by Alex Friedrich

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January 4, 2012 2:45 AM

How much part-time work is too much for students?

MPR’s Tim Post has a report today about how students are working so much that their studies are suffering. He’s told by 20-year-old Bianca Jones, a full-time University of St. Thomas journalism student who works more than 30 hours a week: “There are days where I just dread having to wake up and go to…

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January 4, 2012 1:48 AM

Notes in the Margins: Women, football coaches and Naval Academy admissions

Naval Academy, other colleges differ on when an application counts The U.S. Naval Academy received 19,145 applications for the class that began in fall and accepted 1,426. Its admission rate was 7.5 percent, one percentage point lower than Princeton’s. Or was it? Academy leaders acknowledge that only 5,720 of those applications were complete. The rest, more than two-thirds of…

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January 3, 2012 1:27 PM

104 Minn. school districts reach deals with teachers

More than 100 Minnesota school districts have reached new contract deals with their teachers.

by Tom Weber

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January 3, 2012 8:15 AM

How one blog sees MnSCU salary transparency

The Let Freedom Ring Blog rails about what it considers a dearth of easily available information on administrative salaries and job descriptions within the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system: There’s no excuse why universities shouldn’t have an organizational chart, showing who’s in administration and what they’re responsible for. I don’t mean the euphemism-filled…

by Alex Friedrich

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