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January 28, 2014 5:42 AM

Alumnus: Why it’s hard to keep giving to Macalester College

Rochester writer and Macalester College alumnus Paul John Scott writes in the Star Tribune that news of the President Brian Rosenberg’s $750,000 compensation package has prompted him to stop donating to the college: It’s telling that a school once known for its idealism has bought into the notion that executives should not feel the pain Read more →

by Alex Friedrich

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January 28, 2014 4:11 AM

The recruiting poster that Minnesota colleges should hide

I stumbled across this poster on Twitter recently, and I had to chuckle. Remember when I posted about how Minnesota private-college recruiters sell the cold? Yeah, this might not be the way. (Fun stuff, though. Thanks to Jillian Hiscock and the College of St. Benedict.)

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January 28, 2014 2:21 AM

Notes in the Margins: Gender ratios, loan refinancing and recruitment of high-school freshmen

Promote Faculty Based on Where They Work, Not Where They Don’t One line in the cover letters of some promotion review packets makes me highly uncomfortable: “As part of your review, please inform us whether this candidate would be promoted to the same rank if s/he were at your university.” I fear that this question is Read more →

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January 27, 2014 10:58 AM

State universities to give veterans a boost in grad-school admissions

State universities are discussing ways to give added consideration to military veterans who apply to this fall’s graduate and professional programs. Acting on the legislature’s orders last session, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) officials have drafted a policy making veteran status as a “positive factor” in admissions. But they said they don’t know yet Read more →

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January 27, 2014 3:57 AM

Governor: Shocked about U of M – Duluth funding imbalance

MPR News’ Dan Kraker has reported this from Duluth: Gov. Mark Dayton said Friday that he was shocked to hear that there is an imbalance of funding between funding for the University of Minnesota-Duluth and the Twin Cities campus. At a UMD forum held by Dayton and several state legislators, several people faculty and staff Read more →

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January 27, 2014 2:40 AM

Notes in the Margins: Testing, 24-hour dining and privatization of higher ed

U-Md. and Johns Hopkins offer specialized sequences of online courses via Coursera The campuses are among the first to offer specialty sequences of courses. Hopkins is listing a sequence of nine MOOCs in data science, with certificates available to those who pass all nine, complete a capstone project and pay $490. (The Washington Post) Is the Read more →

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January 24, 2014 11:36 AM

Is Pine Tech’s bid for community-college status part of a trend?

Pine Technical College‘s attempt to become Pine Technical and Community College is part of a long-term change among Minnesota’s technical colleges. A handful of technical colleges have become comprehensive campuses in the last decade or so, leaving another handful with a purely technical orientation. Pine’s bid to become a comprehensive campus comes a workforce development Read more →

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January 24, 2014 2:38 AM

Notes in the Margins: Contraception, the leadership obsession and a job guarantee

Utopian Pasts and Futures The belief that the liberal arts and sciences should be central to higher education rests on a distinctively American idea. The criticism of this kind of education, and the insistence in much of the national debate today about the priority of training in vocational skills, is also a distinctively American idea. (The Huffington Read more →

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January 23, 2014 10:19 AM

Chancellor: Campuses will control MnSCU’s transformation

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system Chancellor Steven Rosenstone — who has faced faculty suspicion that he’s trying to centralize decision-making — says in the Pioneer Press that he won’t try to micromanage the committees carrying out his overhaul of the system: “The people doing the work have to be the ones at the Read more →

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January 23, 2014 8:22 AM

MnSCU names two interim campus presidents, academic chief

As I mentioned in my story on Metropolitan State University yesterday, St. Cloud State University Provost Devinder Malhotra has been named interim president of Metro State. He starts July 1, and his term is for two years. He’s the second interim president named yesterday. Lisa Larson will be taking charge at North Hennepin Community College Read more →

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