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MnSCU applications nearly triple last month after fee waiver

MnSCU applications nearly triple last month after fee waiver

Remember the article I posted on Wednesday about the huge jump in applications that Bemidji State and Northwest Technical experienced because of last month’s college application week? Looks like the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system saw overall applications almost triple after application fees were waived, according to the edited press release below. Applications…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Coaching salaries, Penn State and the bottom third

For millions of college dropouts, second chances prove difficult Students who quit college are costing taxpayers around $3 billion a year in state appropriations to colleges and universities, as well as federal and state grants to students. And that’s only for beginning full-time students who drop out during their first year. If every dropout were counted,…
by Alex Friedrich

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Who should be on the hook for student loans?

Alex is off and higher ed reporter Tim Post is home with a sick kid, so posting will be light today. To give you something higher ed-related to chew on, I offer up this intriguing suggestion from Glenn Harlan Reynolds at The Washington Examiner (via Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Beast.) Reynolds proposes making schools…
by Bill Wareham

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Regents consider tuition hike for business students

Regents consider tuition hike for business students

The University of Minnesota's board of regents will consider a plan Thursday to raise tuition on business majors higher than other university students.
by Tim Post

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Who needs an English major?

Who needs an English major?

Midday presents a new American RadioWorks documentary looking at the future of liberal arts education in America, and whether this traditional form of higher learning can respond to the demands of the 21st century economy.

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Audio: Who needs an English major?

Here’s a piece that’s airing on MPR’s Midday today. It’s part of the “Tommorrow’s College” series by American RadioWorks that I wrote about back in August.
by Alex Friedrich

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How MN comp-sci students can get training, work and future jobs

“We saw jobs being sent offshore and it was like, why couldn’t we take that same work, send it to students, price it about the same and then the clients have the [added] value of hiring the students on full time after graduation.” — Maverick Software Consulting founder Martin Hebig on how he figured his…
by Alex Friedrich

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What some St. Olaf students think of Carleton College

What some St. Olaf students think of Carleton College

Nah, this isn’t official St. Olaf gear. Found one of these after talking to some students at St. Olaf College last week. They said some Ole student started selling them a while back, and that campus administration really frowned on them. (I’ve got a call in to officials there.) They also said Carleton has its…
by Alex Friedrich

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How Bemidji-minded students responded to Minnesota College Application Week

“I feared that people would just use the shotgun approach with applications, but it appears students did carefully look at options of college.” — Harry Cottrell, dean of students at Northwest Technical College, on how students took advantage of waived application fees during last month’s Minnesota College Application Week, and yet didn’t use the waiver as a…
by Alex Friedrich

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