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On Campus Blog

Notes in the Margins: Personal IPOs, free education and the PSAT

The IPO of You and Me: How Normal People Are Becoming Corporations It’s an alternative to student debt. But services like Upstart and Pave thrive in desperate times. In a healthy economy, it’s hard to imagine Ivy League graduates chaining themselves to wealthy patrons via high-tech income-sharing arrangements. (New York) Should We Just Start Over on Federal Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Federal profits, loan data and a takeover of schools

Colleges could take over schools in N.Y. city Plan is effort to save some of city’s most struggling schools. (USA Today) Student Loan Data Gap Hinders Government Understanding Of Risks To Economy For example, officials are unable to determine the number of borrowers delinquent on their obligations, or the share of distressed borrowers in repayment plans Read more →
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Bethel U continues financial dispute, tells feds this year was healthy, too

Bethel University will send the Department of Education the results of its FY 2013 audit this week, which campus officials say shows the university is financially healthy. The university has been in a battle with the feds over the results of a national college financial-health test, which the government says Bethel flunked. But campus officials Read more →
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How beneficial is the modernization of Dinkytown?

How beneficial is the modernization of Dinkytown?

Former Dinkytown property owner Jeffrey Meyers tells the Star Tribune that Dinkytown — the urban neighborhood next to the U – has lost its flavor and could be re-energized by developers: “A lot of (family businesses) have been gone for a long time — including my father’s. “I don’t think there’s any charm. . Dinkytown needs Read more →
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Notes in the Margins: Gilded retirements, industry partnerships and a math lawsuit

Out-Of-State Colleges Want California Students As Pool Of Applicants Shrinks The Regional Admission Counselors of California represents recruiters who live in California but work for universities in other states. Membership has grown from about 25 members 10 years ago to roughly 80 now. (The Huffington Post) A gilded goodbye for many private college leaders Presidents’ retirement pay and Read more →
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Keep this man out of your college’s dining hall

Keep this man out of your college’s dining hall

It’s hard to watch this. Former Rochester Community and Technical College student Eric Dahl is the collegiate competitive-eating champion and says in USA Today what often goes through his mind when he’s mid-binge: “Say you’re taking part in a 10-minute contest and five minutes in your stomach starts to say, ‘Hey, what are you doing? Read more →
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Notes in the Margins: Work-study cuts, sexual assaults, and penalization of the poor

Texas University’s Race Admissions Policy Is Debated Before a Federal Court An affirmative-action program at the University of Texas at Austin that takes applicants’ race into account was unnecessary because the campus had achieved a “critical mass” of minority students, lawyers told a federal appeals court. (The New York Times) Stop Penalizing Poor College Students The way Read more →
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U of M President says new dean could recharge the medical school

U of M President says new dean could recharge the medical school

University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler said he’s hoping newly named medical school Dean Brooks Jackson can revitalize the school, boosting morale while fueling more medical research. Today the U named Jackson, who directs the pathology department at Johns Hopkins University, the successor to Aaron Friedman, current dean and vice president for health sciences. Jackson Read more →
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Johns Hopkins pathology director named U of M medical school dean

Johns Hopkins pathology director named U of M medical school dean

This announcement just in from the U: University of Minnesota names new Medical School Dean and Vice President for Health Sciences – Jay Brooks Jackson will begin in February pending Board of Regents approval – University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler announced today that the University’s new dean of the Medical School and vice president Read more →
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Notes in the Margins: Fragrances, prof pay and turning away from MOOCs

How Much Is a Professor Worth? A book to be published this month examines academic salaries, contracts and benefits in publicly funded universities in 28 countries. It depicts a world increasingly divided “into two categories — brain drain and brain gain,” as countries with more resources siphon off academic talent from poorer countries. (The New York Times) Read more →
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