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Notes in the Margins: Santorum, older grads, and hot for teacher

Liberal learning: Only for the elite? President Obama’s American Graduation Initiative has thrown our nation into a global contest for primacy in college attainment. It also, arguably, threatens to seed a sort of class system in American higher education. Other nations already unabashedly steer students into distinct tracks: baccalaureate degrees for the privileged, and career…
by Alex Friedrich

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New management for school trust lands bill advances

On a mostly party line vote Thursday, the House Environment Committee approved a bill to remove management of school trust lands from the DNR.
by Stephanie Hemphill

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Sviggum decision could wait till early next week

I’ve just gotten off the phone with University of Minnesota Board of Regents Chairwoman Linda Cohen, who told me she’s not expecting to get the second opinion (the outside one) on the Steve Sviggum matter till Monday. So she might not make a decision till then — at the earliest — on what to do.…
by Alex Friedrich

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Have we all been suckered in by that jobs-skills mismatch argument?

In the past year or so I’ve written and reposted a number of articles on the supposed jobs-skills mismatch in Minnesota (and America overall), and some questions have slowly started to nag me. Among them: How can it really be that despite all of our top-flight educational resources there’s a mismatch — and that it’s…
by Alex Friedrich

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Census: How Minnesota stacks up in science and engineering

Census: How Minnesota stacks up in science and engineering

Just got off a conference call regarding some higher-ed results from the U.S. Census. I still have to download and go through the results to see what kind of state-by-state results it has, but for now I’ll give you the chart above. (Don’t expect any time comparisons, though. I was told this was the first…
by Alex Friedrich

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Bill would extend Minnesota's prone restraint law until late 2013

Bill would extend Minnesota's prone restraint law until late 2013

A state House committee discussed legislation Thursday that would allow schools to keep using a controversial physical restraint to subdue or calm students with severe mental health disabilities.
by Tom Weber

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Notes in the Margins: Textbooks, deferrals and pepper spray

CSU to trade ad campaign for cheaper textbooks The odd new role for CSU administrators – promoting a textbook company’s products over the next three years – turns out to be the university’s perhaps innovative way of addressing one of higher education’s most vexing problems: sky-high textbook prices. In exchange for putting the name “Cengage”…
by Alex Friedrich

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Minn. teachers weigh in on proposed tenure shakeup

Minn. teachers weigh in on proposed tenure shakeup

A bill making its way through the Legislature would allow school administrators to consider a teacher's performance in the classroom, instead of just seniority, when cutting jobs.
by Tim Post

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What the U's new provost has to say to students

What the U's new provost has to say to students

Just a quick video for those who haven’t met Karen Hanson, the University of Minnesota’s new provost.
by Alex Friedrich

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Franken supporting bill targeting vet-enrollment by for-profits

Franken supporting bill targeting vet-enrollment by for-profits

Still catching up on my first day back. In case you haven’t seen this, here’s news on a bill involving U.S. Sen. Al Franken that hits on for-profits’ enrollment of veterans. Below is the Bloomberg article, followed by Franken’s press release. For-Profit Colleges Lose Incentive to Target Vets in Bills For-profit colleges would lose a…
by Alex Friedrich

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