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St. Catherine University ponders future of program that serves young women of color

St. Catherine University ponders future of program that serves young women of color

This could be the last year for a program that introduces young women of color to the college experience at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minn. The school is trying to figure out how to keep funding The First Step Summer Institute. A spokeswoman for the university says the budget process will start in…
by Cindy Gonzalez

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One reason it’s tough for recent graduates to get jobs

One reason it’s tough for recent graduates to get jobs

Corporate consultant Lindsey Pollak told The Daily Circuit this morning how cash-strapped workers are delaying retirement and thus lowering the number of positions open to recent college grads: “I’m under the impression that baby boomers are never going to retire, ever. We’re going to have 100-year-old workers taking entry-level jobs.” You can read about the discussion…
by Alex Friedrich

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Who is talking about Minnesota dual credit programs this month

Who is talking about Minnesota dual credit programs this month

This upcoming webinar on earning college credit while in high school seems appropriate in light of this blog post and discussion. It’s July 23 at 2 p.m — with a Spanish version at 3 p.m. — and will last half an hour. Registration information and other details are on the Center for School Change website.…
by Alex Friedrich

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How Capella University uses infographics

How Capella University uses infographics

After seeing my coverage of how Minnesota colleges — such as the University of St. Thomas and Concordia University in St. Paul — use infographics to market themselves, a representative from Capella University sent me the one above. Sounds like they use several.
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: General Petraeus, Bill Gates and the flipping of the flipped classroom

Petraeus takes big pay cut with $1 salary Former CIA director David Petraeus is taking a big salary cut for his visiting professorship at the City University of New York’s honors college after being criticized for how much he was getting paid. (ABC News via Education Dive) College makes you healthy At the core of the debate…
by Alex Friedrich

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How welcoming are Minnesota campuses to the LGBT community?

How welcoming are Minnesota campuses to the LGBT community?

Looks like the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities got five out of five stars in national ratings of how LGBT-friendly campuses are. You can get more details about the ratings system in the U’s announcement below. Other five-star campuses in the Campus Pride Index are Carleton College and Macalester College. The rest were in…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why MnSCU’s plan for its campuses is good

Why MnSCU’s plan for its campuses is good

The Star Tribune explains why it welcomes plans by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system to consider shuffling the programs it offers at its campuses to better meet demand: That move is overdue. More than half of Minnesota’s job growth is in the metro area, while the bulk of Minnesota’s higher-ed capacity, particularly in…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Hitler, Bill Gates and solutions to the student-loan problem

The best answer is still RTFM Countless college and university presidents and deans have written memoirs over the years in hopes of providing both brilliant insights and practical guidelines. Most such works reprint or modestly revise dry and repetitive speeches that are “dead on arrival”. Henry Rosovsky’sThe University: An Owner’s Manual (1990) remains a notable exception. (Times Higher…
by Alex Friedrich

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UMN athletic director: We’ve carved out space. It won’t be extravagant

UMN athletic director: We’ve carved out space. It won’t be extravagant

As you know, University of Minnesota Athletic Director told MPR’s Tom Weber on The Daily Circuit his view that his athletes need a new academic center for themselves. His $190 million sports construction plan calls for the private funding and construction of eight projects over the next six to eight years. He say’s they’d be…
by Alex Friedrich

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What a UMN researcher finds wrong with Metro State’s parking proposal

What a UMN researcher finds wrong with Metro State’s parking proposal

First some neighborhood folks had issues with Metropolitan State University’s plans for a parking ramp. Now University of Minnesota civil engineering professor David Levinson and director of the NEXUS research group on transportation says the proposal to charge students and employees for it — regardless of whether they use it — is wrong: So if…
by Alex Friedrich

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