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Notes in the Margins: Asians, diversity and female business school deans

Private-College Presidents Getting Higher Salaries The median compensation — including salary and benefits — was $385,909, a 2.2 percent increase from the previous year. The median base salary increased by 2.8 percent to $294,489. (The New York Times) B-School Leadership Through a Different Lens Two women are shattering a glass ceiling for business school deans. (U.S. News…
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Do too many kids go to college?

Do too many kids go to college?

The conventional wisdom about college degrees is being challenged in light of ballooning student debt and the success of young start-up entrepreneurs without college degrees. NPR's Intelligence Squared U.S. invites four debaters to square off on the proposition that too many kids are pushed into attending college.

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Private college presidents' pay up modestly

Private college presidents' pay up modestly

As the economy staggered, private college presidents enjoyed modest raises. The median 2009 compensation for leaders at private schools was $386,000, up 2.2 percent from the year before, according to the latest annual analysis by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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What the U is telling its leadership about transfers

Here’s a memo that the University of Minnesota has sent out to “university leadership” regarding its recent decision to cut back a little on the number of transfer students it will be accepting. Looks like Fox 21 News has picked up the story in Duluth.
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Some unusual St. Olaf College student organizations

Some unusual St. Olaf College student organizations

Students kept telling me yesterday how many clubs St. Olaf has — to the point where some get overwhelmed with juggling their academic and extracurricular lives. Below are just a few that I don’t remember seeing when I was in college — and neither did Carolina Astrain, our newsroom coordinator, who is a 2010 graduate…
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The holiday surpise that the Carlson School got

It might not be a true flash mob — more of a “smart mob” — but this Carlson School of Management performance is a nice little vid. Pretty slick. Check out the security officer at the 2:20 mark.
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Keillor is moving his book store to Macalester

Keillor is moving his book store to Macalester

“It will give people at Macalester a chance to walk into an establishment where you can just walk around and look at things, you don’t really need to buy anything. … You walk into a bookstore and you look around at books and here, for sale, all around you, is American enterprise, intellectual enterprise and…
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