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Education News

MPR News keeps track of the latest education news in Minnesota so you can understand the events shaping the future of learning and how it impacts students at any level.

Stay informed about local education events, policies and more happening in schools and colleges across Minnesota.

Why college sports reform would be limited

Public Insight Network member Lisa Nordeen, a former athlete and coach as well as Minnesota professor and sport sociologist with extensive Division I experience, said calls for reform can only go so far: Sure, reform is needed. However, college athletics has become so imbedded within our society that it would be next to impossible to…
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Should college sports be broken off into separate businesses?

Should college sports be broken off into separate businesses?

The Public Insight Network query on the meaning behind the Penn State scandal has brought out a lot of folks who think college sports have grown too big and need to be separated from the schools themselves. (One could argue that wouldn’t solve the actual problem, but would remove that section of it from higher…
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Notes in the Margins: Thanksgiving, free education and the innovation killer

College Tuition is the Innovation-Killer It’s getting to a point where no graduate of a four-year college or graduate degree program can go out on their own and start their business because they have this incredible weight, this Albatross around their neck called student loan debt. (BigThink) New holiday tradition: Students spending Thanksgiving on campus It…
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What a retired professor says about the Penn State case

What a retired professor says about the Penn State case

The responses to our Public Insight Network query on the Penn State child sex-abuse scandal are starting to roll in. John Sievert of Lakeland writes that the case: “… says that the money has become too important – a case of the tail wagging the dog. Joe Paterno is a decent and honorable man and…
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So what does the Penn State scandal mean?

So what does the Penn State scandal mean?

News of the Pennsylvania State University child sex-abuse scandal is all over the news today. To what extent is what’s happening on the Penn State campus reflective of American higher education and how it handles big-time college sports? We’ve asked folks in our Public Insight Network to give us their perspectives, and we’d love to…
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PSU trustees fire Paterno, Spanier

PSU trustees fire Paterno, Spanier

Penn State trustees fired football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier amid the growing furor over how the school handled sex abuse allegations against an assistant coach.

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How St. Cloud State's reorganization is being sold to students

How St. Cloud State's reorganization is being sold to students

St. Cloud State University is marketing (or rebranding?) its recent academic reorganization with a theme that could be described as a helicopter parent’s dream: It’s all about me. Watch the video above and read here the university’s schtick on what’s going on.  
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What Macalester's president learned from Steve Jobs' biography

Macalester College President Brian Rosenberg explains in The Huffington Post one of three lessons that higher education needs to take from the life of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs: One of higher education’s great weaknesses is the inability to decide what not to do. We see this played out in many ways: on a curricular level, where the proliferation of…
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Notes in the Margins: STEM grind, Penn State and gender-neutral locker rooms

The Evolution of Higher Education Drawing on his experience as the first chief technology officer at Hewlett-Packard, director of the National Science Foundation’s computer and computation research division, and dean of Georgia Tech’s College of Computing, Richard DeMillo offers an engineer’s view of the challenges facing higher education. (The New York Times) The big college scam The…
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What Minnesota students will do at the Capitol Monday to support the Pell Grant

What Minnesota students will do at the Capitol Monday to support the Pell Grant

Just got this from the state’s two largest student organizations: Minnesota Students to Deliver 3,500 Signature Petition Opposing Pell Grant Cuts Students from the Minnesota State College Student Association (MSCSA) and the Minnesota State University Student Association (MSUSA) collected more than 3,500 signatures in opposition to the U.S. House of Representatives’ proposal to cut the…
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