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Why Minnesota industry just needs good learners

Why Minnesota industry just needs good learners

Chris Ratzlaff, senior HR administrator at Dakota Electric, tells the Star Tribune the company looks for smart people who can adapt to new technology — and don’t just look for those with hard-to-find specialized skills: “If somebody taught themselves a specific software program, or they’re a good learner, there’s a good chance that they’re going…
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Notes in the Margins: Dissertation delays, open records and workman’s comp

Former UC Davis cop in pepper-spraying case wants worker’s comp The former UC police officer who was internationally condemned for pepper-spraying demonstrators at UC Davis is seeking worker’s compensation, claiming he suffered psychiatric injury as a result of the November 2011 incident. (Los Angeles Times) Historians Seek a Delay in Posting DissertationsThe American Historical Association caused a stir…
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How the federal student-loan deal affects MN grad students and parents

How the federal student-loan deal affects MN grad students and parents

The discussion over Congress’ move to put federal student loans on a variable market-based interest rate has so far focused on undergraduates and their Stafford loans. But what about graduate and professional students, and parents who take out PLUS Loans? I spoke again with Tricia Grimes, policy analyst for the Minnesota Office of Higher Education.…
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Augsburg profs say why MOOCs can’t replace the classroom experience

Augsburg profs say why MOOCs can’t replace the classroom experience

Augsburg College faculty members Lars D. Christiansen and Michael J. Lansing write in MinnPost why physical presence is so important in teaching, and why online education — specifically the massive open online course (MOOC) — offers the promise of something it can’t deliver: “MOOC boosters assume that education is about the thinking mind, not the feeling body. For the…
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Notes in the Margins: Campus religion, enrollment declines and English in academe

Why Forbes Removed 4 Schools From Its America’s Best Colleges Rankings Claremont McKenna isn’t the only top college that lied. Bucknell University doctored SAT results from 2006 to 2012; Emory University provided numbers for admitted students rather than enrolled ones for more than a decade; and Iona College lied about acceptance and graduation rates, SAT scores and alumni giving for nine years…
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What Franken, Kline said about the Senate student-loan deal

What Franken, Kline said about the Senate student-loan deal

Democratic Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota, who won the support of many students by trying to amend the Senate student loan rate legislation that passed yesterday, made this announcement about why he voted for the bill: “… My main goal throughout this process was to make sure we got students the best deal possible, which…
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Former Saint Mary’s president dies

Former Saint Mary’s president dies

This (lightly edited) announcement from the university: Saint Mary’s 10th president, Brother Peter Clifford, dies Brother Peter Clifford, FSC, the 10th president of Saint Mary’s University, died Tuesday at De La Salle Hall in Lincroft, N.J. A dedicated educational visionary and financial steward, Brother Peter served as president of Saint Mary’s from 1976 to 1984,…
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Notes in the Margins: Blowing refunds, changing Stafford rates, and governing community colleges

Senate Approves College Student Loan Plan Tying Rates to Markets Many liberals, who are upset that the plan would replace the fixed-rate subsidized federal student loan program, criticized their colleagues for leaving lower- and middle-income students vulnerable to swings in the market. (The New York Times) Some thoughts on student loan interest rates The 3.86 percent rate…
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The price that students and faculty pay for flipping a classroom

The price that students and faculty pay for flipping a classroom

For all the talk of the benefits of flipped classrooms, I realized one drawback — if you want to call it that — during a recent interview with a St. Mary’s University of Minnesota student and professor: They’re a heck of a lot of work. In flipped classrooms, the timing of the lecture is turned…
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Why the UMN needs to keep its hands off the campus lecture

Why the UMN needs to keep its hands off the campus lecture

In a Minnesota Daily story on flipped classrooms, University of Minnesota  chemistry freshman Jessica Wyatt says she likes the prof-at-the-podium model just fine, thank you very much: “Flipped classrooms at the [University] are really obnoxious, because you don’t get the lecture-style learning that you’re looking forward to when you go to college.” So take that,…
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