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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.

Rep. Kline asks feds to ease up on for-profits, takes for-profit money, asks again

Rep. Kline asks feds to ease up on for-profits, takes for-profit money, asks again

While he was asking the U.S. Department of Education to ease up on proposed regulations that would affect the for-profit college industry, Minnesota Republican Congressman John Kline accepted $4,500 in campaign contributions from sources related to the industry, according to data included in a report by the investigative reporting Web site ProPublica. Kline, the ranking Republican on…
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Bell director: No outside interference on Troubled Waters

Here are the main points in the following statement by Susan Weller, director of the University of Minnesota’s Bell Museum of Natural History. She’s commenting on the flap behind the mysterious pulling of the environmental documentary “Troubled Waters”: No outside interests, as erroneously reported by some news sources, have been involved in this internal decision-making process.…
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Friedman to replace Cerra as dean of U of Minnesota Medical School

Friedman to replace Cerra as dean of U of Minnesota Medical School

Below is the letter from President Robert Bruininks, sent out today. Here’s the crux: It is my pleasure to announce to you that I have asked Dr. Aaron Friedman to become Vice President for Health Sciences and Dean of the Medical School (Vice President and Dean) for a term, effective January 3, 2011, and that…
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Why St. Thomas is buying mouse traps

Everything is Permuted via Flickr Bring it on, Tommies Here’s University of St. Thomas senior Paul Milner, who was a resident of Cretin Hall last year, commenting on his experience with mice there: “My personal favorite was the one that died under the radiator,” said Milner.  “It smelled like it was cooking over the next…
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Notes in the Margins: Playboy's insects, an ousted chancellor and community college successes

Best college course in the nation? Playboy magazine says it’s at Oregon State The magazine has dubbed an insect course the nation’s best college class of 2010 because it combines humor with learning. (Oregon Live) Schools Consider The Value Of Individualized Study More and more institutions are turning toward individualized majors as a different way…
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Himle: No link to Troubled Waters film

MPR’s Stephanie Hemphill says she talked to John Himle of Himle Horner, the public relations firm that has represented farming interests — interests that could see the U of M film “Troubled Waters” as being critical. Remember that he is married to the Karen Himle, vice president of university relations, the office that determined the…
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Emmer: Have it rough and you'll get creative

Emmer: Have it rough and you'll get creative

Earlier I posted a summary of comments made by Republican candidate for governor Tom Emmer when he was talking about higher education yesterday during a question-and-answer session at the Humphrey Institute. Here are some edited snippets (not verbatim) that didn’t make the Capitol View report. (I was hoping for an explanation/justification/strategy behind his plan to…
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Links behind the U's Troubled Waters ag relationship angle

Here’s an e-mail sent out to several news outlets that appears to contain the same information as that in the sidebar update of the Twin Cities Daily Planet story on the U’s pulling of the Troubled Waters film. Update: The information does come from the Daily Planet story. Is there fire to the smoke in…
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