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March 15, 2012 9:27 AM

Are college students starting to avoid Wall Street?

University of Minnesota associate professor of anthropology Karen Ho, suggests in The New York Times why Wall Street seems to be having a harder time recruiting students: “Everything from Occupy Wall Street to larger critical discourses of ‘fat cats,’ all of that has had some trickle-down effect” to young people. Read the full story here.

by Alex Friedrich

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March 15, 2012 6:21 AM

St. Thomas law school apologizes for faulty rankings data

The University of St. Thomas is apologizing on its Web site for giving incorrect grad-employment data to U.S. News and World Report, which released its rankings earlier this week. It says it caught the error itself: It has come to our attention that U.S. News published an inaccurate employment at graduation statistic for the UST…

by Alex Friedrich

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March 15, 2012 5:15 AM

Should MN colleges require computer-skill placement tests?

A commentary in City College News, the student paper of Minneapolis Community and Technical College, says the college needs to assess students’ computer skills before they start taking classes. It argues they need to overcome any technology gap stemming from their age, income or culture if they are to succeed in their studies: … Older…

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March 15, 2012 2:33 AM

Notes in the Margins: Race, contraception and two-tier pricing

Help for Student Borrowers Under a new initiative, the new federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is providing one-stop shopping for complaints on billing and collection disputes, and financial institutions will have to resolve complaints within 60 days. (The New York Times) Santa Monica College to offer two-tier course pricing The school’s governing board has approved a plan to offer…

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March 14, 2012 6:52 AM

Should Minnesota public colleges prioritize fixing or building?

I’ve just done a piece on an interesting discussion going around the legislature’s higher-ed circles about what to do with the limited money that the state has for campus improvements to state-run colleges and universities (including the U). The main issue: Do we spend it on the huge backlog of maintenance and repair projects? Or…

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March 14, 2012 6:15 AM

The political rhetoric that irritates Eric Kaler

University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler tells The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead what he thinks of politicians’ criticism of higher education, its perceived bias and its cost: “I think that’s probably some of the most dangerous demagoguery out there. I don’t know any problem that is better tackled by having less-educated people work on it.” He…

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March 14, 2012 6:05 AM

A little background on the UMN regent Sviggum case

After University of Minnesota regent Steve Sviggum resigned over concerns that he suffered a conflict of interest by holding his GOP Senate caucus staff job, MinnPost put up a background piece to answer a reader’s question: Just who are the regents and why do we have them? Who picks them? Is it true their ranks…

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March 14, 2012 2:35 AM

Notes in the Margins: Arrest records, graduation math and the corporate university

80 Percent Of Bankruptcy Lawyers Report A ‘Substantial Increase’ In Clients Buried By Student Loan Debt A report released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York showed that the total balance of student loans in the U.S. has reached $870 billion, while 27 percent of student loan borrowers are at least 30 days behind on their…

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March 13, 2012 10:10 AM

Just how valuable are backpacks at MCTC?

City College News, the student paper of Minneapolis Community and Technical College, says it conducted a survey and found that the average student backpack contains more than $500 worth of stuff. That’s … more than I can remember carrying in college. Read the full story on campus security here.

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March 13, 2012 4:56 AM

So is chemistry a marketable degree or not?

Last week I wrote about the conflicting signals that students must be receiving about what to major in, considering the fluctuating job market. One of the surprising bits was that recent data shows chemistry is a clunker of a degree. That flies in the face of all the STEM hype that we’ve been reading. So…

by Alex Friedrich

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