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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.

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Notes in the Margins: Gay students, college locations and profs in dorms

Elite liberal arts colleges question financial models If you glanced at Smith College’s “Futures Initiative,” you might think the college was in serious financial trouble. (USA Today) At Some Colleges, Professors Live in Dorms, Too Though university websites trumpet faculty embedded in dorms, some students are wary. (U.S. News & World Report) Most colleges not ready to…
by Alex Friedrich

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What some St. Cloud State students and faculty are protesting

What some St. Cloud State students and faculty are protesting

According to the UTVS video above and accompanying story, St. Cloud State University is seeing a little unrest over the firing last month of Mahmoud Saffari, its associate VP for enrollment management. The Students and Faculty of Color Caucus at SCSU on Thursday protested the apparently abrupt Sept. 20 dismissal of Saffari, who’d had the…
by Alex Friedrich

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A few thoughts and photos of Inver Hills Community College

A few thoughts and photos of Inver Hills Community College

After a day at Inver Hills Community College, I’ve noticed that one of the defining things about it might be the campus itself — something the students seem to pick up on. The architecture first hit President Tim Wynes when he toured the college before coming on board in March 2010. He said the shaker shingles…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why have Minnesota's future Nobel Prize winners left?

Why have Minnesota's future Nobel Prize winners left?

You may have just seen the infographic of where the Nobel Prize science winners have come from, and that this year’s two Nobel economics winners once worked at the University of Minnesota. Reed Carpenter of Bloomington makes this observation through our Public Insight Network: Over the past few years four Nobel prize winners in economics…
by Alex Friedrich

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Infographic: Where the Nobel Prize science winners have worked

Infographic: Where the Nobel Prize science winners have worked

This is just a shot of the cool interactive graphic over at The Wall Street Journal. It’s just about the science winners from research institutions, but you can see what countries they’re from, and the institutions where they worked.
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Stuttering, radio stations and taxing colleges

Stutterer Speaks Up in Class; His Professor Says Keep Quiet His classroom experience underlines a perennial complaint among stutterers, that society does not recognize the condition as a disability, and touches on an age-old pedagogical — and social — theme: the balance between the needs of an individual and the good of a group. (The New…
by Alex Friedrich

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The Inver Hills class that ditches fancy learning methods

The Inver Hills class that ditches fancy learning methods

After reading repeated articles about the newest, most efficient high-tech ways to learn, it’s almost startling to hear Inver Hills music instructor Andrew Martin tell me: We don’t take notes. We don’t read music. We learn by rote memorization. I’m in his class, where students learn how to play Trinidadian steel drums. After just eight…
by Alex Friedrich

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Which instructor would you give the last seat on your life raft to?

Which instructor would you give the last seat on your life raft to?

MPR Photo / Alex Friedrich Math: The root of it all? Now here’s an event that shows some intellectual playfulness: The Life Raft Debate. It pits a handful of instructors against each other in an attempt to determine which is most valuable to society. The scenario (according to the program): There has been a nuclear…
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What the Inver Hills president wants to do with the college

What the Inver Hills president wants to do with the college

I’ve had a chance to talk with President Tim Wynes. Good interview – low key, but engaged and with a sense of humor. Seems to make sense, considering his background. Chancellor, Iowa Valley Community College District Executive dean of governmental affairs, grants and college research and director of development, Indian Hills Community College General counsel…
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One way Inver Hills students can get a sense of community and learn from it

One way Inver Hills students can get a sense of community and learn from it

I’m in a photography and writing class, and there seems to be more cohesiveness than first meets the eye. In front of the class of 25 are photography instructor Paul Wegner and writing-and-research-skills instructor Lisa DuRose, who are tag-teaming in a program called “The Observant Eye.” Wegner is discussing the work and themes of photographer Sally…
by Alex Friedrich

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