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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.

U of Phoenix in GAO muck

Looks like the University of Phoenix — the national for-profit university that has branches in Woodbury and St. Louis Park — may have been snagged in that GAO inquiry into deception at for-profit institutions. The document and video didn’t appear to name names. But now the university’s owner, Phoenix-based Apollo Group Inc., has launched an…
by Alex Friedrich

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Feds questioning Capella U's owner

Looks like the federal hearings into activities by for-profit colleges has reached Minnesota. Earlier this week the General Accounting Office released results of its investigation into fraud at for-profit schools. Minnesota was not one of the states the GAO targeted. Now, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions has asked Capella Education Company of Minneapolis,…
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Worst orientation video ever?

Worst orientation video ever?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GJVxFP19Gs Note to Minnesota colleges getting into video: This is not how to do it. If you do, you’ll be the laughing stock of the Web and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Yes, yes, this is my alma mater. Not my proudest moment. UPDATE: I almost forgot. What makes this even more embarrassing is that it comes…
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List of 20 Worst-Managed University Endowments

List of 20 Worst-Managed University Endowments

To put the story of the U’s plunge in its endowment into a little perspective, see the list by Financial Web site 24/7 Wall St. of this year’s Best- and Worst-Managed Endowments at universities. Thanks to Professor Bill Gleason for pointing it out.  The 20 Worst Managed Endowments: 1) Harvard, down 30% and $10.9 billion 2)…
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Something for TCF Bank Stadium to aspire to

Something for TCF Bank Stadium to aspire to

  Manningmbd via Wikimedia Commons Would it take a Big Ten championship for our U students to snap up tickets? The Big Ten has selected Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis as the proposed site for the conference’s first football championship game to be played December 2011, the Associated Press has reported.  The Big Ten announced…
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The U's med-ethics policy: One comparison

I wanted to lay some groundwork showing how the University of Minnesota’s conflict-of-interest policy has stood compared to others — before getting an idea of where it’s going. So I consulted the American Medical Student Association’s scorecard to get an idea. It’s not great. The U’s policy scored a D in 2008. The association, however, bumped the U’s provisional grade to a C based on a draft of…
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Summary of the U's conflict-of-interest policy

Summary of the U's conflict-of-interest policy

jglazer75 via Wikimedia Commons U of M Medical Center The University of Minnesota has finally released its ethics policy over conflicts of interest that may occur when its medical faculty and staff are involved with businesses that have a connection to their university work. It’s been about three years in the making, and is apparently stricter than the…
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U of M endowment plunges

The economic crisis caused the value of U of M’s endowment to drop 24.2% between 2008 and 2009 — the second biggest loss among Big Ten schools, according to this piece in The Minnesota Daily. The biggest loser in the Big 10 was Northwestern, whose endowment dropped 24.8%. Couldda-been-worse tidbit: While the University of Minnesota lost more than…
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