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Why luxury housing is growing around the University of Minnesota

Why luxury housing is growing around the University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota architecture student Alex Johnson tells the Star Tribune why he loves living in a two-bedroom, two-bath corner unit at the high-end Stadium Village Flats: “I just turned 20 years old a couple of days ago and live in a place with granite countertops, quality furniture and a view like none other. I…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Community colleges, unprepared graduates and student-loan profit

Chinese Dissident Says He’s Being Forced From N.Y.U. Chen Guangcheng, the dissident legal advocate whose escape from house arrest to the American Embassy in Beijing last year provoked a diplomatic crisis, said he was being forced to leaveNew York University over concerns that his activism was harming the university’s relationship with China. (The New York Times) UK, US…
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Teach for America suffers a setback

The organization's request for temporary teaching licenses is denied.

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Officials skeptical of report on administrative efficiency at U of M

The Senate leader on higher-education says a new report on administrative efficiency at the University of Minnesota confirms her belief that the university is well-managed compared to its peers. The authors of the report, released Thursday, say the university ranks middle of the pack among a sample of more than half a dozen peers. They…
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Regents pass two-year freeze for in-state undergrads

Regents pass two-year freeze for in-state undergrads

Tuition for in-state undergraduates at the University of Minnesota will stay flat in the fall, after regents Friday passed a budget that includes the first tuition freeze in a generation. Regents praised the two-year freeze, which University President Eric Kaler won funding for from the legislature. But a few regents, including, expressed concern over the…
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Minneapolis teacher contract talks: Not just about the money

Minneapolis teacher contract talks: Not just about the money

Talks have begun on a new two-year contract for 3,000-plus Minneapolis teachers. Will negotiations change how teachers are paid?

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Teach for America denied group teaching licenses

The national non-profit group that places recent college graduates without teaching licenses in schools temporarily now needs to apply for individual temporary licenses.
by Tim Post

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Infographic: Macalester campus life

Infographic: Macalester campus life

Interesting way to show some otherwise dry campus life stats. I wonder whether anyone else does this.
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Notes in the Margins: Fund-raising, free speech and lesbians

Reporting Your Neighbor’s Speech? Don’t Laugh, It’s Coming To A College Campus Near You What you call “sexual harassment” and what the feds call “sexual harassment” are probably two vastly different things. (Forbes) The Student Debt Crisis Is Everyone’s Problem We’ve lost sight of the fact that higher education is not a product but rather both a…
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The Huron report on administrative efficiency at the University of Minnesota

Here it is. The executive summary is above, and the full report is below. This needs much closer review, but the gist of it appears to be: No glaring problems, but the U could be more efficient. The report compares the U’s administration to that of more than half a dozen similar universities. It appears…
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