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Two Minnesota lawmakers want better reporting of study abroad dangers

Two Minnesota lawmakers want better reporting of study abroad dangers

Parents send their children off to increasingly popular study abroad programs, but they often don’t think about the potential for danger. A Minnesota foundation for study-abroad safety estimates more than 400 American students — mostly college students — have died on such programs over the past 15 years in cases such as drownings, hiking accidents Read more →
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Is Macalester College obsessed with squirrels?

Is Macalester College obsessed with squirrels?

Macalester College has made The Huffington Post‘s list of “Colleges Most Obsessed With Squirrels.” Wow, OK. I’m not sure what to say. But the Post does. Here it quotes from a college-related blog: Students have had squirrels jump on their feet, seen the critters refuse to move away from them and display “big and bold personalities.” Some Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Suicide waivers, parasitic profs and care-package condoms

Black Enrollment Falls as Michigan Rejects Affirmative Action Three years after the court allowed race-based admissions, Michigan voters blocked them at state schools through a ballot initiative. The result is fewer black students crisscrossing the Diag, the wide space that cuts through the heart of the university’s Ann Arbor campus. Black enrollment is down about 30 Read more →
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How some Tommies reacted to their prez’s remarks about homosexuality

How some Tommies reacted to their prez’s remarks about homosexuality

Alfonso Wenker, a University of St. Thomas alumnus who founded the Minnesota Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Ally Campus Alliance tells the Pioneer Press about campus reaction to President Julie Sullivan’s convocation remarks supporting inclusiveness of homosexuals: “It was a pretty pointed statement. It’s no secret that St. Thomas has climate issues for gay students and Read more →
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St. Cloud State building rare 24-hour all-Huskies sports channel

St. Cloud State building rare 24-hour all-Huskies sports channel

Joel Larsen, interim assistant athletic director for marketing and promotion for St. Cloud State University, tells the St. Cloud Times about the university’s plans to use $4.8 million to create a 24-hour sports channel:  “This is a platform that not even the University of Minnesota has. This a television channel that anybody that gets Charter Read more →
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Why UW-Madison has more cool-nerd points than the U of Minnesota

Why UW-Madison has more cool-nerd points than the U of Minnesota

It’s Tuesday, it’s off season, and we just need our Game of Thrones fix. I also wish I’d heard university carillonneur Lyle Anderson‘s version of Star Wars and Harry Potter. (h/t blaster.com)
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: iOS7 crashes, prepaid plans, and an anti-NRA tweet

Anti-NRA tweet leads to University of Kansas professor’s administrative leave After the Washington Navy Yards shooting, tenured associate professor David Guth lashed out, and then felt the backlash of the university, which rapidly distanced itself from his views. (New York Daily News via Education Dive) One less way to pay for college The prepaid college savings plan that Read more →
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How salaries of University of Minnesota’s leaders stack up

How salaries of University of Minnesota’s leaders stack up

Here’s a University of Minnesota graph on how the salaries of its senior leaders — senior VPs, chancellors, deans and such — stack up against equivalents at other universities. It was apparently the first time senior leaders were included in the U’s annual report on employee compensation, which you can find at the bottom of Read more →
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What the University of Minnesota’s new Goldy statue looks like

What the University of Minnesota’s new Goldy statue looks like

  Talk about BMOC: Goldie is six feet tall and standing outside Coffman Memorial Union. Details from the U’s announcement: The Goldy statue was designed and sculpted by artist Nicholas Legeros, a U of M alumnus with a master’s in Fine Arts. He has sculpted several statues around the Twin Cities metro area. The Goldy Read more →
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Prof: Why MnSCU needs to back off its central planning

Prof: Why MnSCU needs to back off its central planning

Winona State University professor Darrell Downs writes in MinnPost that June’s “Charting the Future” strategy report by Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system is a “ham-handed” attempt at consolidation that will short-change students. Among the report’s proposals are campus mergers and the relocation and elimination of academic programs. Downs writes: Contrary to the MnSCU Read more →
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