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Notes in the Margins: Yiddish, flexibility and saving the public Ivies

Oy vey! Yiddish making a comeback at colleges The language came close to dying out after the Holocaust as millions of Yiddish speakers either perished in Nazi concentration camps or fled to other countries where their native tongue was not welcome. Emory and other universities like Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and McGill University in Canada are…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why time has run out for Saint Paul College's watchmaking program

Why time has run out for Saint Paul College's watchmaking program

What Saint Paul College once billed as the nation’s oldest watchmaking program is closing down, the college’s president confirmed late yesterday afternoon. Rassoul Dastmozd did not elaborate, but wrote me an e-mail stating: “The Saint Paul College Watchmaking Program ended this month following decreases in enrollment and continued funding challenges.  All students who remained in…
by Alex Friedrich

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UMN says MN Supreme Court will review Tubby Smith lower-court ruling

Remember the legal flap over the Tubby Smith hiring dispute? This just came from the U: Minnesota Supreme Court grants university’s petition to review lower courts’ decisions in lawsuit brought by James Williams The University of Minnesota today received notice that the Minnesota Supreme Court has granted the university’s petition to review the lower courts’…
by Alex Friedrich

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What the state Office of Higher Education's new blog looks like

What the state Office of Higher Education's new blog looks like

There’s Big Tobacco, there’s Big Oil. Now there’s Big Ed — the new higher-education blog by the state Office of Higher Education. It has been online for about a month, so I thought I’d check in to see how it’s progressing. The opening post by the office’s director of communications, Sandy Connolly, states the blog…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why Humphrey School fellows help fund their own jobs

Why Humphrey School fellows help fund their own jobs

The salaries and benefits of the school's 30-plus tenured and tenure-track faculty are funded by the school. But it's up to the Humphrey's 19 non-tenured faculty, fellows and research staff to raise some or practically all of the money -- through grants, donations and corporate sponsorships -- to support their own positions.

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What are YOU doing over winter vacation?

What are YOU doing over winter vacation?

I’m working during the holidays, so that means I’m looking for a few stories to cover.  With that in mind, I’d love to know what college students are doing during their winter break. Are you working to make a little extra money to cover tuition?  Any interesting jobs out there we should know about?  Maybe…
by Tim Post

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