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Notes in the Margins: Chaos, small colleges and a better tech school

Expansion causing ‘chaos’ across the world Global expansion may entrench the dominance of Western university systems. (Times Higher Ed) Why some small colleges are in big trouble Money is tight. Competition is brutal. Are some Massachusetts schools on the road to ruin? (The Boston Globe Magazine via NAICU) Penn State’s Revenue Takes A Dive Following Jerry Sandusky…
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How the Office of Higher Ed wants to make the college search process easier

How the Office of Higher Ed wants to make the college search process easier

Here’s a neat idea the state Office of Higher Education has come up with: a free smartphone app that helps students stay on top of their college search. Here’s the OHE announcement by Director Larry Pogemiller. I’ve put in bold the stuff that sounds pretty nifty: Dear Colleagues, Better student planning and preparation are essential…
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What some MnSCU part-time students are saying about money

A while back I did a radio piece on how student leaders at Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system campuses were saying the State Grant formula was unfair toward working part-time students. Above is a survey that the Minnesota State University Student Association (which represents those at four-year institutions) conducted of part-time students. The…
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Should the University of Minnesota hook up with Mayo?

Should the University of Minnesota hook up with Mayo?

Louis Johnston, chair of the Department of Economics at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University writes in MinnPost what the U should do now that Fairview merger talks have ended: The first step is to separate the University of Minnesota’s Health Sciences from Fairview. This will allow Fairview to pursue any mergers or combinations…
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Notes in the Margins: Race law, student reading and emotional train wrecks

Foreign lecturers in Italy suffer 50% pay cut The long-precarious position of the lettori – the British and other foreign lecturers working within Italian universities – has recently taken a turn for the worse as 91 of them have had their salaries cut by up to 60 per cent in the aftermath of what has been described as…
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What is next for Fairview and the U?

What is next for Fairview and the U?

Here’s a version of my chat (audio above) with MPR’s Steven John today on All Things Considered: SJ: A day after merger talks abruptly ended between Fairview Health Services and its suitors — Sanford Health and the University of Minnesota — Fairview and the U are left to figure out where to go from here…
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What's Rep. Pelowski doing about admin spending?

What's Rep. Pelowski doing about admin spending?

Gene Pelowski (DFL-Winona), chairman if the House higher-ed committee, tells MPR political editor Mike Mulcahy he’s got some legislation coming out Monday that targets colleges’ administrative spending: “You will see oversight language on Monday that begins to address both reporting to the legislature on a mandatory basis, on a regular basis, of how they’re spending…
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What’s Rep. Pelowski doing about admin spending?

What’s Rep. Pelowski doing about admin spending?

Gene Pelowski (DFL-Winona), chairman if the House higher-ed committee, tells MPR political editor Mike Mulcahy he’s got some legislation coming out Monday that targets colleges’ administrative spending: “You will see oversight language on Monday that begins to address both reporting to the legislature on a mandatory basis, on a regular basis, of how they’re spending…
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The Senate higher-education omnibus bill

Other news commitments keep me from looking at this more closely, but I’ll get to it soon. For now, here’s the latest version of the Senate higher-ed omnibus bill — numbers included. Chairwoman Terri Bonoff’s announcement of her highlights is here.
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UMN prof: How the university of the future will operate — if it still exists

UMN prof: How the university of the future will operate — if it still exists

Here’s part of a recent interview on “the university of the future” between John Moravec, a faculty member in the University of Minnesota‘s Innovation Studies/Master of Liberal Studies graduate programs, and Carlos Scolari a researcher in digital communication, semiotics and media ecology at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. It’s taken from the blog Education Futures, which Moravec edits. CS: How do…
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