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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.

Podcast: What's this productivity craze hitting college campuses?

Remember Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s proposal for a $10,000 bachelor’s degree? This American RadioWorks podcast looks at the efficiency/productivity debate behind all that: Many corporations are demanding cheaper, faster and more efficient work from their employees. Now that bottom-line kind of thinking is coming to higher education. Marketplace reporter Amy Scott recently reported on two…
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Interactive graphic: How Minnesota compares in student-loan default rates

Interactive graphic: How Minnesota compares in student-loan default rates

Minnesota has the 10th-lowest average default rate on federal student loans in the U.S., according to an interactive chart published by USA Today. At 5.96 percent, we’re behind national leader North Dakota (3.39), Wisconsin (5.21) and Nebraska (5.59). Check out the interactive graphic here.
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Notes in the Margins: Zombies, grandparents and learning disabilities

Learning-disabled students get firmer grip on college Nearly nine out of 10 of the nation’s two- and four-year colleges enroll students with disabilities, and of the 86% of those that enroll students with learning disabilities, only 24% say they can help disabled students “to a major extent,” says an Education Department report published in June. That’s why a growing…
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How much the Univ. of Minnesota wants to grow enrollment

How much the Univ. of Minnesota wants to grow enrollment

“A lower-quality student experience, reduced retention and graduation rates, decreased interest from other higher quality students who would want to come here, and we’re basically arguing that this would lead us into a bit of a spiral.” — Bob McMaster, the University of Minnesota’s dean of undergraduate education, to the Board of Regents on why…
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The background of Saint Paul College's president

The background of Saint Paul College's president

“He hasn’t had it easy. He had to earn his stripes. Rassoul worked hard. He even took physical and verbal abuse at times, and he persevered.” — Clark College President Bob Knight on Rassoul Dastmozd, an Iranian-born engineering student who came to the U.S. in 1979 and rose through the ranks to become VP of…
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Some reading on finanancial aid fraud in the U.S.

To provide some context to the previous post, here’s a recent New York Times article on the growth of financial aid fraud, which a Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system auditor said was a growing issue in this state as well: While serving nine months in a South Carolina prison on forgery charges, Michelle…
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MnSCU auditor: Minor fraud cases are up, eating into our time

I’m at the monthly trustees meeting of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system. Beth Buse, who heads up MnSCU’s internal auditing office, says fraud investigations have jumped this year over last. Although the cases have not involved significant monetary losses, they are eating up more and more of her time. She told the…
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Notes in the Margins: College radio, sorority grandma, and teaching in ignorance

Seeing Value in Ignorance, College Expects Its Physicists to Teach Poetry As much of academia fractures into ever more specific disciplines, St. John’s College still expects — in fact, requires — its professors to teach almost every subject, leveraging ignorance as much as expertise. (The New York Times via NAICU) Despite budget cuts, college radio remains…
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