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U general counsel leaving for Johns Hopkins

University of Minnesota General Counsel Mark Rotenberg is leaving the U for a similar position at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MinnPost reports.

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Dayton's bonding proposal for MnSCU and UMN

Dayton bonding bill proposal Higher education projects: Those for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system start on p. 13. Those for the University of Minnesota are on p. 16.
by Alex Friedrich

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Dayton’s bonding proposal for MnSCU and UMN

Dayton bonding bill proposal Higher education projects: Those for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system start on p. 13. Those for the University of Minnesota are on p. 16.
by Alex Friedrich

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Why Arne Carlson says the University of Minnesota needs better regents

Why Arne Carlson says the University of Minnesota needs better regents

Former Republican governor Arne Carlson has been on a tear recently. First he wrote this blog post about administrative pay at the University of Minnesota. Then he wrote a related opinion piece for the Star Tribune, which took aim at the U’s Board of Regents. He talked to MPR’s Kerri Miller on The Daily Circuit…
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Arne Carlson hits U of M on 'administrative bloat and excessive compensation'

Former Gov. Arne Carlson took to the Star Tribune this weekend to call out the University of Minnesota for "excessive compensation and administrative bloat."

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What the University of Minnesota says about the loss of its head lawyer

What the University of Minnesota says about the loss of its head lawyer

This is the University of Minnesota’s official announcement of General Counsel Mark Rotenberg’s departure: Mark B. Rotenberg, who has served as the University of Minnesota’s Chief Legal Officer for the past 20 years under four presidents and 11 Board of Regents chairs, will leave the U to take the post of vice president and general…
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UMN general counsel Rotenberg leaving for Johns Hopkins

UMN general counsel Rotenberg leaving for Johns Hopkins

University of Minnesota General Counsel Mark Rotenberg is leaving the U for a similar position at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MinnPost reports. Sure, that’s insidery stuff, but writer Eric Black mentions why Rotenberg was worth watching: Rotenberg has been in the middle of some of the most important controversies that the U has faced…
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Macalester: How final is a financial aid offer?

Macalester: How final is a financial aid offer?

Macalester College financial aid chief Brian Lindeman discusses in The New York Times how final a college’s financial aid offer is: “Most financial aid offices will not respond positively to simple requests for more aid. We generally won’t improve financial aid packages in response to a financial aid offer from another school.  … Over the years,…
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Notes in the Margins: Ag, adjunct profs and an old ally

More colleges break the news to would-be students online While some holdouts continue to rely only on the U.S. Postal Service to deliver the news, growing numbers of colleges have migrated to online notification in recent years, via Web sites or e-mail. (The Washington Post) The paradox of the college denial letter At the heart of college…
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