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MPR News keeps track of the latest education news in Minnesota so you can understand the events shaping the future of learning and how it impacts students at any level.

Stay informed about local education events, policies and more happening in schools and colleges across Minnesota.

MnSCU official: How diversity plays into workforce development

MnSCU official: How diversity plays into workforce development

Whitney Harris, executive director for diversity and equity for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system, told trustees of the value of having a diverse collection of instructors and staffers on MnSCU campuses: “There was a recent study by the (Association of American) Colleges and Universities, and it (stated) that 96 percent of those…
by Alex Friedrich

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Text: Address of Fairview exec to Senate higher ed committee

Text: Address of Fairview exec to Senate higher ed committee

I caught up with the speaker, Fairview VP Mark Hansberry, for just a minute as he was walking out the door. He wouldn’t elaborate on the timing of Fairview’s decision to end merger talks with the U — the fact that the decision was announced the same day as Sanford’s pullout. He just said that…
by Alex Friedrich

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Globe and MSB announce tuition-and-book cuts

Globe and MSB announce tuition-and-book cuts

In January, I reported how Rasmussen College made the unusual move of cutting tuition — by an average of 18 percent in Minnesota — amid a softening market for for-profit colleges. Only three other colleges in the state have announced similar moves in the past few years. Now Globe University / Minnesota School of Business…
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Walz and Ellison rejoin effort against doubling of Stafford Loan interest rates

Walz and Ellison rejoin effort against doubling of Stafford Loan interest rates

Democratic U.S. Representatives Tim Walz and Keith Ellison of Minnesota have signed on again to prevent the doubling of student-loan interest rates from 3.4 percent back to their original 6.8 percent for two years. Walz’s announcement is below, and Ellison’s interview with me last year on the subject is here.  You can read some of…
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Notes in the Margins: Record stores, student chefs and Parent College

Famed New York College Will No Longer Be Free Cooper Union in New York City will begin charging undergraduate tuition for the first time in a century, the school’s Board of Trustees announced Tuesday. (The Huffington Post) Help on the road to higher education Parent College gives fathers and mothers an introduction to campus life so they…
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Video: The Google hangout that Sen. Bonoff held

Video: The Google hangout that Sen. Bonoff held

This is from yesterday’s Google Hangout on higher education and the Senate bill, hosted by Terri Bonoff (DFL-Minnetonka), who is the chairwoman of the Senate’s higher-education committee. I’m the MPR guy who couldn’t make it (baby issues), but above is the video of the chat. The quality of the streaming is iffy at times, but…
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Photos from the Macalester College bank protest

Photos from the Macalester College bank protest

Just a photo or two from today’s anti-Wells-Fargo rally today at Macalester College: Here are a couple of photos from the scene of the Mac student protest against Wells Fargo. Student Alexander Bartiromo says state Rep. Frank Hornstein (DFL-Minneapolis), a Mac alumnus, addressed them in the photo above, and said the protest had about 90…
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What a MnSCU trustee wants from Minnesota business and industry

What a MnSCU trustee wants from Minnesota business and industry

As you may know, the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system is in the middle of a large workforce-development program. The goal is to revamp curricula to get Minnesota employers the workers they need. Last year, it teamed up with the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce as well as state Department of Employment and Economic…
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Macalester students: We protest college ties to Wells Fargo

Macalester students: We protest college ties to Wells Fargo

Some Macalester College students say they’re upset with President Brian Rosenberg, saying he has refused to cut the college’s business ties with Wells Fargo. They’re apparently demonstrating at noon today outside Weyerhaeuser Hall on the eastern side of campus. According to a press statement by a student group that calls itself Kick Wells Fargo Off…
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Are Minnesota politicians mucking around too much with tuition?

Are Minnesota politicians mucking around too much with tuition?

The first line in this Star Tribune editorial on legislative control/pressure on tuition is the brassiest: It takes considerable gall for the Minnesota Legislature to deal the state’s two higher-education systems nation-leading cuts in state aid — a nearly 50 percent reduction over the last decade — and then complain about the decisions of the…
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