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On Campus Blog

St. Cloud State starting layoffs

St. Cloud State has begun its attempt to cut as many as 90 probationary (tenure-track) faculty by sending out layoff notices to 26, the St. Cloud Times reports. The notices are a sort of early warning to the 26, and are not a final dismissal. Those 26 represent just over $2 million in payroll, and the university faces…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why textbooks cost so much

Why textbooks cost so much

User:K.lee via Wikimedia Commons Planned obsolescence — not just for appliances anymore In light of the recent federal legislation to reduce the cost of textbooks, The New York Times offers a series of essays in its Room for Debate feature on “The Real Cost of Textbooks.” The book publishers supported the legislation. But a number…
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Novel use for ACT scores

From what appears to be state Rep. Pat Garofalo’s Twitter account: NEWIDEA-post ACT scores nxt 2 twitter name so we quickly figure who 2 ignore. Losing patience w ignorant basement dwellers who tweet allday.
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U wants a bigger piece of the drug market pie

With a reportedly mixed record on drug commercialization, the U is trying to turn more of its drug research into marketable products. According to the MedCityNews.com piece, it’s planning to spend $1 million a year on safety studies, and its philanthropic foundation wants to raise $50 million to support commercialization of the U’s various technologies. I have little…
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Stuffing in those frosh at St. Thomas

Stuffing in those frosh at St. Thomas

Nationaal Archief via Flickr Rise and shine, Tommies Almost 200 more freshman than expected have chosen to enroll at St. Thomas this fall, and the upcoming surge has administrators scrambling. The largest freshman class in St. Thomas history (1,522) will change class sizes, faculty-student ratios and class registration, which might prompt the university to hire…
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Why so many college Web sites are lame

Scoot Williams via Wikimedia Commons Better whip those graphics into shape In a recent Huffington Post piece, Florida Atlantic University newspaper adviser Michael Koretzky slams college newspaper Web sites, calling them “so damn boring” and the content mere “shovelware” poured into templates. That’s odd news to this former newspaper hack, who has read countless industry journal…
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Trying to keep your new grad in MN? Show this.

Minneapolis is the 6th best U.S. city for those just out of college and looking for jobs, according to this year’s ranking by Bloomberg Businessweek. At #1 was Houston, followed by Washington, Dallas, Atlanta, and Austin, Texas. The profiles are in a slide show, but the full list also appears in Twin Cities Business. Biggest loser?…
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St. John's medieval find

St. John's medieval find

One of St. John’s medieval Spanish Bibles Scholars at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library at St. John’s University recently realized that the microfilm copies the library has of two early medieval Spanish Bibles are actually the only ones in existence. That’s big stuff, considering that the Bibles, Codex Complutensis I and Codex Complutensis II, were practically destroyed during the Spanish Civil War…
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Notes in the margins: A roundup

1) Take that, Stanford: Our women golfers aren’t fools. The ones at Gustavus Adolphus and Concordia University had higher cumulative GPAs than their counterparts at both the elite California college and Northwestern. 2) No smoke here: South Central College has gone tobacco-free on both its Faribault and North Mankato campuses, making it the 11th campus to do so in…
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Why Macs are expelling PCs on MN campuses

Why Macs are expelling PCs on MN campuses

Parents who pay the tab for their children’s computers might keep this in mind: My ol’ PiPress colleague, Julio Ojeda-Zapata, has written how Macintosh computers are losing their underdog status at four Minnesota colleges: Winona State, St. Olaf, Macalester, St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict. The MacBook Pro Once the niche choice of the…
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