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What a MnSCU trustee wants from Minnesota business and industry

What a MnSCU trustee wants from Minnesota business and industry

As you may know, the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system is in the middle of a large workforce-development program. The goal is to revamp curricula to get Minnesota employers the workers they need. Last year, it teamed up with the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce as well as state Department of Employment and Economic…
by Alex Friedrich

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Macalester students: We protest college ties to Wells Fargo

Macalester students: We protest college ties to Wells Fargo

Some Macalester College students say they’re upset with President Brian Rosenberg, saying he has refused to cut the college’s business ties with Wells Fargo. They’re apparently demonstrating at noon today outside Weyerhaeuser Hall on the eastern side of campus. According to a press statement by a student group that calls itself Kick Wells Fargo Off…
by Alex Friedrich

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Are Minnesota politicians mucking around too much with tuition?

Are Minnesota politicians mucking around too much with tuition?

The first line in this Star Tribune editorial on legislative control/pressure on tuition is the brassiest: It takes considerable gall for the Minnesota Legislature to deal the state’s two higher-education systems nation-leading cuts in state aid — a nearly 50 percent reduction over the last decade — and then complain about the decisions of the…
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Notes in the Margins: Porn, pop culture and a MOOC report card

Professors embrace pop culture to teach economics A growing number of academics are reaching beyond dense economic texts and into the world of pop culture to help students and others recognize that business and economic concepts are all around us. (USA Today) Part-Time Work Becomes Full-Time Wait for Better Job Even for those who have been able…
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MnSCU chancellor, trustees eliminate executive bonuses

MnSCU chancellor, trustees eliminate executive bonuses

Top executives at the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system will no longer get the performance-based “bonuses” that have caused so much controversy in the past few years. Trustee Phil Krinkie confirmed that the board this week eliminated the performance-based payments as part of a compensation proposal for administrators. The elimination affects the chancellor,…
by Alex Friedrich

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MSUSA: How hard it is to study part-time and work

I picked up this Minnesota State University Student Association handout on part-time students and their debt — I think it was at a recent legislative hearing — and found some of the stories pretty powerful. The handout is above, but here are a few snippets that struck me: From MSU-Moorhead: “It’s a constant, sickening pressure…
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What the MN Private College Council prez says about the State Grant

What the MN Private College Council prez says about the State Grant

Although yesterday’s story, MnSCU students concerned over a proposed State Grant increase, was ultimately an issue between MnSCU students and the governor / Office of Higher Education, I wanted to get the voice of private colleges. After all, their students are among those getting the largest shares of the governor’s proposed $80 million increase to…
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Notes in the Margins: Grading software, faculty pay and tighter security

How grading software fails students Having a program grade papers would apparently free teachers to do other things, but I think it would be a mistake. Why? As a teacher, I may begin to understand students by their conversation or how they respond in class, but when they actually have to put their thoughts on paper,…
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MnSCU students concerned over a proposed State Grant increase

MnSCU students concerned over a proposed State Grant increase

LISTEN: MPR’s Alex Friedrich discusses the State Grant increase A proposed record boost in the state’s main post-secondary financial aid program is drawing criticism from student leaders at Minnesota state colleges and universities, who say they wouldn’t get their fair share of the increase. Gov. Mark Dayton is asking for an $80 million increase over…
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Why the Senate is trying to save puppies

Why the Senate is trying to save puppies

Look, I could go on and on about why I’m posting this, that it’s about a section of the Senate higher-ed bill that requires Minnesota higher-ed research facilities that use dogs or cats in experiments — and which plan on destroying them at the end — to first offer them to an animal rescue organization.…
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