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August 18, 2010 11:44 AM

Gawker: University of Minnesota has 5th highest total student debt load

swamysk via Flickr Now why did I go to school? From the Take-This-With-a-Grain-of-Salt-Department: I just got Gawker’s Top Ten Universities for Student Debt list forwarded by a colleague. It’s an interesting list, but limited in its usefulness, as it appears to be fairly raw data: 1) New York University: $659 million 2) University of Southern California:…

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August 18, 2010 9:22 AM

ACT state stats here

ACT Slowly climbing Here’s a little data behind Tom Weber’s MPR story on the improvement in state scores on the ACT standardized college entrance exam. Below is a chart showing that Minnesota tops the states where the majority of students take the test. (Seven out of 10 students took it in Minnesota.) Other states scored higher —…

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August 18, 2010 9:05 AM

Video: How to start a (college?) movement

I’m usually not one for books or talks on leadership, as I’ve seen too many that are long-winded and filled with platitudes and psycho-babble. But this short video, shown at a North Hennepin Community College employee planning meeting, is fun — and offers a look into the keys to leading a large group. Considering what was said in…

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August 18, 2010 4:28 AM

MN's ACT scores are getting better

MPR’s Tom Weber has this piece on improvement in Minnesota’s already fairly high ACT scores. Education Commissioner Alice Seagren told Weber the cause of the increase might be that schools and teachers are doing a better job of getting students into the right courses to make them college-ready. “It’s not just about taking three years…

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August 17, 2010 12:31 PM

Notes in the Margins: A news roundup

Stop pushing: Some for-profit colleges are resisting federal attempts to tighten regulations on their industry. Gaming the system: One Web site lets college students bet on what grades they’ll make. So long, fun summers: College students are turning increasingly to community college summer courses to rack up cheap credits. Why did I study this, again? Sociologists…

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August 17, 2010 11:10 AM

MSU Moorhead opens its time capsule

MSU Moorhead Now that’s some history When Minnesota State University – Moorhead staffers publicly opened a time capsule this afternoon, they found material from one of the haziest periods in the university’s history. In a zinc-and-copper box were a slew of well-preserved photos and documents — playbills and music programs, course descriptions and school publications — depicting…

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August 17, 2010 7:51 AM

Full list of MN's U.S. News and World Report rankings

cursedthing via Flickr The waiting game is over — for this year I’ve posted other college rankings before, but here’s the granddaddy: U.S. News & World Report’s. The magazine looks at 16 factors among 1,400 accredited four-year schools. As usual, critics say the rankings are arbitrary — and pressure colleges to boost scores…

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August 17, 2010 5:13 AM

MSU Moorhead stumbles upon 1915 time capsule, opens it today

Wikimedia Commons What’s in that time capsule? At 12:45 p.m. today, officials at MSU Moorhead will open a time capsule that workers ran across while renovating Lommen Hall. They “unexpectedly came across the corner stone for Weld Hall—the two buildings are joined. Within the stone was a time capsule in the form of a large…

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August 17, 2010 3:50 AM

Dirty Harry? Whozzat?

Nelson: A Movie Fan via Flickr More of a Million Dollar Baby now Today we’ve got the 13th installment of the annual list that makes most of us feel old: Beloit College’s Mindset List — this time for the Class of 2014. For those of you unfamiliar with this gem, it’s a list of…

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August 16, 2010 11:14 AM

Pressing the candidates for more college discussion

MPR Photo/Tom Scheck OK, let’s talk higher ed Looks like more people are noting a lack of a higher education discussion among Minnesota’s gubernatorial candidates — and demanding more policy meat. Two progressive Minnesota non-profit groups – Growth & Justice and the Minnesota Minority Education Partnership – are calling on the would-be govs to make higher-ed a…

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