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U of M president Eric Kaler answers questions on Midday

U of M president Eric Kaler answers questions on Midday

Six months into the job, new University of Minnesota president Eric Kaler answers your questions about University policies and the purpose of higher education.

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Slideshow: Fall-winter 2011 on some Minnesota college campuses

Key: Christmas at Bethany concert (Bethany Lutheran College) St. Cloud State football crowd (St. Cloud State University) Fall colors (College of St. Benedict) 15th annual Lighting a Tradition ceremony in front of Tower Hall in Duluth (College of St. Scholastica) Festive shoes for the annual holiday celebration (Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College /…
by Alex Friedrich

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What a dean says about St. Cloud's differential tuition system

What a dean says about St. Cloud's differential tuition system

After writing a post  earlier this month that asked questions about how St. Cloud State University (among others) should handle the charging of different tuition rates among various programs, I recently got this reply from Mark Springer, interim dean of the university’s College of Liberal Arts & School of the Arts. St. Cloud State had…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Yiddish, flexibility and saving the public Ivies

Oy vey! Yiddish making a comeback at colleges The language came close to dying out after the Holocaust as millions of Yiddish speakers either perished in Nazi concentration camps or fled to other countries where their native tongue was not welcome. Emory and other universities like Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and McGill University in Canada are…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why time has run out for Saint Paul College's watchmaking program

Why time has run out for Saint Paul College's watchmaking program

What Saint Paul College once billed as the nation’s oldest watchmaking program is closing down, the college’s president confirmed late yesterday afternoon. Rassoul Dastmozd did not elaborate, but wrote me an e-mail stating: “The Saint Paul College Watchmaking Program ended this month following decreases in enrollment and continued funding challenges.  All students who remained in…
by Alex Friedrich

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UMN says MN Supreme Court will review Tubby Smith lower-court ruling

Remember the legal flap over the Tubby Smith hiring dispute? This just came from the U: Minnesota Supreme Court grants university’s petition to review lower courts’ decisions in lawsuit brought by James Williams The University of Minnesota today received notice that the Minnesota Supreme Court has granted the university’s petition to review the lower courts’…
by Alex Friedrich

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Duluth schools superintendent works without license

State records show Duluth school district Superintendent I.V. Foster has been working in Minnesota without a license required for his job.

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