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Notes: Hotels, coding schools, and a senator’s debt

Emory hires first African-American woman to lead top business school While three minority women are currently deans at American colleges of business, James will be the first to lead a full-time MBA program at a top-25 business school. (CNN via The Huffington Post) Elizabeth Warren on Spiraling Student Debt and What Should Be Done About It The…
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Lawmakers seek delay on healthy lunch rules for schools

Lawmakers seek delay on healthy lunch rules for schools

How hard can it be for school cafeterias to swap white bread for whole-grain tortillas, cut sodium, and nudge kids to put more fruit and vegetables on their trays? Tougher than you might imagine, according to some schools.
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Institute pulls admin-pay report over AFT data

A spokesman for the University of Minnesota — which took issue with its ranking in the Institute for Policy Studies’s report on administrative pay — pointed out this announcement this morning: IPS Statement on low-wage faculty findings: Due to questions about information we gathered from the American Federation of Teachers Higher Ed Data Center website, we…
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Notes: Evolution, remediation and $80 free applications

Young Adults, Student Debt and Economic Well-Being An analysis of the most recent Survey of Consumer Finances finds that households headed by a young, college-educated adult without any student debt obligations have about seven times the typical net worth ($64,700) of households headed by a young, college-educated adult with student debt ($8,700). (Pew Research Center)…
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Writer: America rushing to embrace ‘stupid’

Other nations are noticing that the people of the United States and science aren't on good terms. In a scathing article in Maclean's, writer Jonathan Gatehouse asks if the most powerful nation on Earth has lost its mind?
by Bob Collins

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How should the U.S. improve college graduation rates?

How should the U.S. improve college graduation rates?

“When you look at the national statistics on college graduation rates, there are two big trends that stand out right away. The first is that there are a whole lot of students who make it to college — who show up on campus and enroll in classes — but never get their degrees. More than…
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Rybak aims to leap achievement gap

Rybak aims to leap achievement gap

The former Minneapolis mayor zeroes in on the obstacles that keep some kids from succeeding.
by R.T. Rybak and Laura Yuen

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Rethinking affirmative action in university admissions

Rethinking affirmative action in university admissions

"Race is under-inclusive," Sheryll Cashin writes.

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University of Minnesota criticized for bloated adminstration spending

University of Minnesota criticized for bloated adminstration spending

The U of M is among five public universities whose administrative spending has most outpaced spending on students and faculty, concludes the Institute for Policy Studies. University officials call the report "extremely flawed" and "misleading."
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U’s response to national report on admin pay

U’s response to national report on admin pay

Having been named among the “Top 5 Most Unequal Public Universities” by the Institute for Policy Studies on Sunday, the University of Minnesota says the institute’s report — The One Percent at State U — is “outright wrong” and based on “inaccurate data” and a flawed methodology. Here is the U’s updated response from this…
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