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What Sen. Bakk wrote Kaler about the U's union literature

Read the third paragraph. Sen. Thomas Bakk (DFL-Cook) appears to take exception with the way the University of Minnesota is presenting the grad-student union drive.
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Obama, private dorms and no-money-down student loans

Obama on (higher) education in State of the Union address Here’s the part of President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address that was about education, taken from a text prepared for delivery, (The Washington Post) Renaissance Man For two and a half years, Jeremy Gleick, a sophomore majoring in bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, has…
by Alex Friedrich

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Parents worry budget plan could close schools

Parents of students in the East Metro Integration District are worried a new budget plan is a back-door attempt to close the district's two schools.
by Tom Weber

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Photo: What your college students are really doing in class

Photo: What your college students are really doing in class

I’m sure you faculty have already dissected your own classes. Do they look like this? Got this from The Huffington Post, which notes that the photo by rivalxshowxtime is actually from 2007.
by Alex Friedrich

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Minnesota has nation's seventh-largest collegiate brain drain

Minnesota is apparently #7 in a Washington Post blogger’s list of states suffering the largest collegiate “brain drain.” At a time when 75 percent of U.S. students study in their home state, Minnesota experienced a net loss 4,401 high-school grads to colleges in other states, according to the post, which relied on data from the…
by Alex Friedrich

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What rules does the U think Sviggum might be breaking?

What rules does the U think Sviggum might be breaking?

Much of this conflict-of-interest talk surrounding the decision by University of Minnesota regent Steve Sviggum to take a Republican Senate staff job has been a little general. Just what regulations does the university think he might be violating? After all, Sviggum said the Board of Regents’ conflict-of-interest policy doesn’t list his job as one that’s…
by Alex Friedrich

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Anoka-Hennepin tries again on sexual orientation policy

Anoka-Hennepin tries again on sexual orientation policy

A newly revised policy on how teachers should handle contentious issues surrounding sexual orientation when they come up in class appears to be gaining support in the state's largest school district.
by Tom Weber

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Do Minnesota businesses really need training incentives?

Do Minnesota businesses really need training incentives?

I’m intrigued by Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s mention in the Rochester Post-Bulletin of a proposal for feds to work with businesses on what I assume will be training programs: I’m working right now to develop federal legislation that would, among other things, build on the success in Alexandria (Technical and Community College) by providing incentives for small…
by Alex Friedrich

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The urban bubble phenomenon in Minnesota job skills

While describing what Alexandria Technical and Community College is doing to help decrease Minnesota’s job-skills mismatch, the Echo Press explains one of the dynamics involved: It’s an urban “bubble” phenomenon: for each hour that you drive away from the Twin Cities and into rural areas, manufacturing’s workforce gap widens. Read the full story here.
by Alex Friedrich

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