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Notes in the Margins: Sports, visas and the computerized ACT

Colleges In U.S. Offer Highest-Ever Discount to Entice Students Private nonprofit colleges are offering students tuition discounts of 45 percent, on average, in response to a changing financial environment that stems from the weak economic recovery. Price reductions, designed to boost attendance, were at an all-time high in 2012 and outpaced the rate during the recession. (BloombergBusinessweek)…
by Alex Friedrich

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The person who will serve as the University of Minnesota general counsel till 2015

The person who will serve as the University of Minnesota general counsel till 2015

  Here’s an email from University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler naming the deputy general counsel, Bill Donohue, to replace Mark Rotenberg as the U’s general counsel — essentially, its chief attorney. It sounds like an interim position of sorts. He’ll start serving later this month until the end of June 2015. At that point,…
by Alex Friedrich

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St. Paul science educator named Teacher of the Year

St. Paul science educator named Teacher of the Year

Megan Olivia Hall teaches grades 7-12 at the Open World Learning Community in St. Paul. She was presented with the award Sunday.
by Rupa Shenoy

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Why the monitoring of G.I. Bill money is decreasing

Why the monitoring of G.I. Bill money is decreasing

Supervisor Paula Plum of the Minnesota State Approving Agency tells the Star Tribune how federal officials have limited inspectors’ ability to scrutinize academic programs that serve veterans — and increased the chance for abuse: “We were going out to the schools every year reviewing records, making sure they were certifying correctly. If they weren’t, we had…
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Why On Campus looks different

Why On Campus looks different

You might have noticed in the past couple of days that the look of On Campus has changed. Nothing major here. I won’t bore you with the details, but essentially we’ve put MPR’s blogs onto the same “platform,” and made that more accessible to smartphones. The platform is based on WordPress — the same as…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Disgraced profs, tuition caps and the assessment of emotions

Sequester Leads to Creative Stopgap Measures The federal budget cuts known as sequestration are being felt across the country, with some programs coping, some struggling and others closing their doors. (The New York Times) The Whole Truth About Student Debt in 17 Charts College graduates are supposed to be our bright spot, but runaway college costs are…
by Alex Friedrich

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Enrollment up at embattled BlueSky charter school

An online charter school that faced closure just last year is now seeing an increase in enrollment.
by Tim Post

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Is massively open online education a threat or a blessing?

Massively open online courses may be able to transform education as we know it, changing it from the privilege of an elite into a shared commons that is open and free to everyone. There are grounds for concern, though.

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Report: For-profit college grads perform as well as public university peers

Students at for-profit colleges in Minnesota are as likely to be employed one year after graduation as students from two-year public colleges, according to a report from the state Office of Higher Education.
by Alex Friedrich

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