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What UMN med school dean says about his resignation

What UMN med school dean says about his resignation

Here’s a statement by Dr. Aaron Friedman, who is resigning at the end of the year as vice president of health sciences and dean of the University of Minnesota medical school. A university spokesman sent it to me:   After three years as vice president of health sciences and dean of the Medical School, I…
by Alex Friedrich

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University of Minnesota medical school dean resigning

University of Minnesota medical school dean resigning

This announcement from University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler was forwarded to me: Dear Colleagues, Dr. Aaron Friedman, vice president for the health sciences and dean of the Medical School, has informed me of his plans to step down at the end of the calendar year, which is also the end of his current, three-year…
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Dayton presses small businesses on after-school effort

Dayton presses small businesses on after-school effort

Gov. Mark Dayton wants small businesses to adopt after-school programs.

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Mpls school district faces $25M shortfall

The Minneapolis school district is facing a projected $25 million deficit in the next fiscal year.
by Tim Post

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Report recommends delaying prone restraint ban

Report recommends delaying prone restraint ban

A Minnesota Department of Education report, put together with help from educators, school officials and mental health experts, is recommending schools be allowed to continue the use of a controversial physical restraint, used to subdue or calm agitated students, until 2017.
by Tim Post

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Preschool for all: White House allies offer plan

Preschool for all: White House allies offer plan

A think tank with close ties to the White House is outlining a plan that would provide preschool for all children within five years. Education Department officials, including Secretary Arne Duncan, have signaled that pre-kindergarten programs would be a priority during Obama's second term.

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U of M seeks state funding; lawmakers want admin. spending answers

U of M seeks state funding; lawmakers want admin. spending answers

Students and top officials from the University of Minnesota are rallying at the Capitol today. It's an annual tradition in which they urge legislators to support the university's budget requests. But this year they're doing it amid an uproar over administrative spending.
by Alex Friedrich

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Small towns look to Legislature for help with aging school buildings

Small towns look to Legislature for help with aging school buildings

Two small Minnesota towns are struggling with the same problem: flooding that left the local school buildings in bad shape. In Rushford-Peterson and Moose Lake, the damages were repaired and students are back in school, but officials in both districts say the fixes are temporary.
by Elizabeth Baier

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What Gustavus trustees have written alumni regarding President Ohle

I’ve just been forwarded a letter that Gustavus Adolphus College‘s board of trustees have sent to alumni concerned about the leadership of President Jack Ohle, a number of whom have called for his ouster. I think this is the main message (the bold type being mine): As a Board, we have listened and are hearing…
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Notes in the Margins: Virtuoso professors, liberal arts salaries and the suing of students

Yale Suing Former Students Shows Crisis in Loans to Poor Yale, Penn and George Washington University have all sued former students over nonpayment, court records show. While no one tracks the number of lawsuits, students defaulted on $964 million in Perkins loans in the year ended June 2011, 20 percent more than five years earlier, government data show.…
by Alex Friedrich

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