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September 11, 2013 12:28 PM

What’s pushing Minnesota’s drive for more foreign students?

Yesterday afternoon, a group of Minnesota schools and colleges announced they were teaming up to lure more foreign students to the state. For more details, I talked today to Christina Hilpipre-Frischman, who is chairwoman of the the new 21-member group, called “Study Minnesota.” She said the schools have been talking about teaming up for a Read more →

by Alex Friedrich

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September 11, 2013 9:30 AM

A great little first-day-of-class prank

What looks like an upperclassman from the University of Rochester’s radio station pulled this little stunt recently — posing as the professor of a freshman chemistry class. The real professor eventually showed up. (h/t The Huffington Post)

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September 11, 2013 5:14 AM

How seriously does Hamline University take the U.S. News rankings?

With some media outlets groaning yet again about the U.S. News & World Report rankings – a system they say provides perverse incentives that prompt schools to cheat in what’s really an academic beauty contest — I asked Hamline University President Linda Hanson what she really thought of them. She said they’re a good source of data such Read more →

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September 11, 2013 2:42 AM

Notes in the Margins: Class, nontenured faculty and testing for a job

Class Is Seen Dividing Harvard Business School As soon as new students arrive, they are expected to write checks of $300 or $400 to their “sections,” the groups with whom they take first-year classes, if they want to participate in social events. In recent years, second-year students have organized a midwinter ski trip that costs over Read more →

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September 10, 2013 10:04 AM

Minnesota colleges launch push for more international students

This just in … “Study Minnesota” Consortium Launched to Attract International Students A group of Minnesota educational institutions – including public and private colleges and universities, community colleges, English language institutes and high schools – has formed Study Minnesota, a consortium to promote Minnesota as a destination for international students. “Study consortiums exist to help Read more →

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September 10, 2013 7:37 AM

How Minnesota fared in the U.S. News college rankings

It’s that time of year again, and here’s where Minnesota colleges and universities place in this year’s U.S. News & World Report college rankings. As I’ve mentioned in years past, those rankings — as unfair, incomplete and possibly inaccurate as they are – are what a lot of colleges and higher-ed experts love to hate. Read more →

by Alex Friedrich

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September 10, 2013 5:14 AM

Metro State payroll snafus leave summer employees underpaid

Metropolitan State University biology professor and Inter Faculty Organization leader John Schneider emails colleagues about an inquiry ordered into university payroll problems that have kept many employees from receiving pay, promotions and other compensation increases this summer: “The audit will certainly find flaws.” Faculty and staff have been asked to review their pay stubs for Read more →

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September 10, 2013 2:18 AM

Notes in the Margins: Rankings, the loan bubble and the college shakeout

US News & World Report Releases Best National Universities 2014 Ranking Despite changes in the methodology for U.S. News & World Report’s annual best colleges rankings, the list of top national universities was once again dominated by Ivy League schools and elite institutions like Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (The Huffington Post) U.S. News’ College Rankings Read more →

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September 9, 2013 9:38 AM

An unexpected benefit of going back to college

Need to trim the ole’ middle-age waistline — perhaps take off a few dozen pounds? Go to college. That did the trick for MinnPost media-writer-on-hiatus David Brauer. When I interviewed him recently about how he’d just finished his degree at the the University of Minnesota, he told me the U helped him drop 30 pounds Read more →

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September 9, 2013 7:10 AM

How the University of Minnesota fared on the WSJ’s “Grid of Shame”

The Gophers edged into truly respectable territory for the first time in this year’s Wall Street Journal Grid of Shame. The grid, based on information compiled by the paper, rates football teams from 125 major colleges in their performance both on the field and off. The horizontal axis shows how strong the colleges and universities Read more →

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