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Notes in the Margins: Baby boomers, interest rates and winter acceptance

More College Applicants Don’t Get In Until Winter College acceptance letters are increasingly telling applicants to show up at midyear, an economic benefit for the colleges but a shock to the students. (The New York Times) Should college acceptance letters be sent via email? The days of racing to the mailbox to find out if you’ve been accepted…
by Alex Friedrich

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What Pelowski said about tuition and how to tame MnSCU and the U

What Pelowski said about tuition and how to tame MnSCU and the U

Yesterday was practically Gene Pelowski Day. First the House higher-education committee chairman appeared on MPR’s Daily Circuit. Forty minutes later, he held a press conference unveiling the latest version of the House higher-education bill. Then he held his committee’s hearing. I was there at all of them, and here are a few highlights. He’s always…
by Alex Friedrich

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What UMN alumni told Kaler the priority of the U should be

What UMN alumni told Kaler the priority of the U should be

Just got around to getting the transcript to University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler’s recent conference call with about 10,000 alumni. One tidbit: The callers were asked what the U’s priority should be. Here are the results, according to the moderator: “It really came down to two things. Undergraduate education was the top priority of…
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What MnSCU students want done with campus buildings

It’s that time of year — the time when students cry out for lawmakers to give colleges enough money to fix their facilities (to replace bad pipes, heat cold, drafty classrooms — that sort of stuff). The program to fix all that is called HEAPR (“HEE-per”), an acronym for a rather clumsy title: the Higher…
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How much does the University of Minnesota help the health of the global poor?

How much does the University of Minnesota help the health of the global poor?

A new report card has recently appeared that measures how well universities’ labs and health programs benefit the world’s poor. It measures, among other things, how much they research global diseases neglected by market-driven medicine, and how much access poor countries get to their results. Few universities have done well; the University of British Columbia…
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Notes in the Margins: Starbucks, luxury apartments and the 3-year degree

Starbucks, Wal-Mart offering classes – for college credit A growing number of Fortune 500 companies, like Walmart, have grown tired of waiting for colleges and universities to produce the skilled workers they need and have started offering their own classes instead. And as an added bonus for employees: Many of these courses — from Starbucks’ Barista…
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What the MnSCU finance chief said about House proposals

What the MnSCU finance chief said about House proposals

After the House higher-education committee rolled out its new amendment targeting administrative pay, MnSCU CFO Laura King told the committee she was “very comfortable” with the new reporting requirements. (She even said MnSCU found them “quite agreeable.”) She also said MnSCU was OK with the proposed restrictions on bonuses. But she had this to say…
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House amendement targets administrative pay

House amendement targets administrative pay

Here’s a little snippet from this morning’s Daily Circuit chat with House higher-ed Chairman Chairman Gene Pelowski (DFL-Winona), who is pushing public colleges and universities to more fully report how they spend money on administration. As you can tell by reading the first few pages of the bill, he has included a provision in the…
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Which four MnSCU schools have the largest economic impact?

Which four MnSCU schools have the largest economic impact?

Stumbled across this short Star Tribune article about the economic impact of campuses in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system. It’s based on a series of cost-benefit studies by St. Paul’s Amherst H. Wilder Foundation. It mentions the four campuses with the most economic impact, though it focuses on Minneapolis Community and Technical…
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