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Undocumented students learn about path to college

Undocumented students learn about path to college

More than 100 students attended Minnesota's first-ever conference for undocumented high school students seeking a college education Saturday at the University of Minnesota.
by Rupa Shenoy

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What the U is telling its leadership about transfers

Here’s a memo that the University of Minnesota has sent out to “university leadership” regarding its recent decision to cut back a little on the number of transfer students it will be accepting. Looks like Fox 21 News has picked up the story in Duluth.
by Alex Friedrich

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Some unusual St. Olaf College student organizations

Some unusual St. Olaf College student organizations

Students kept telling me yesterday how many clubs St. Olaf has — to the point where some get overwhelmed with juggling their academic and extracurricular lives. Below are just a few that I don’t remember seeing when I was in college — and neither did Carolina Astrain, our newsroom coordinator, who is a 2010 graduate…
by Alex Friedrich

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The holiday surpise that the Carlson School got

It might not be a true flash mob — more of a “smart mob” — but this Carlson School of Management performance is a nice little vid. Pretty slick. Check out the security officer at the 2:20 mark.
by Alex Friedrich

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Keillor is moving his book store to Macalester

Keillor is moving his book store to Macalester

“It will give people at Macalester a chance to walk into an establishment where you can just walk around and look at things, you don’t really need to buy anything. … You walk into a bookstore and you look around at books and here, for sale, all around you, is American enterprise, intellectual enterprise and…
by Alex Friedrich

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A St. Olaf class that Johnny Depp would love

A St. Olaf class that Johnny Depp would love

You’ve gotta love liberal arts colleges for some of the quirky classes they offer. The title of this St. Olaf course sounds like it’ll make history sexy: History 140 / Pirates of the Caribbean. Yesterday during my visit to the college, I dropped in on the class, taught by Steve Hahn, a professor specializing in…
by Alex Friedrich

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Audio: Why is there a jobs-skills mismatch?

For those of you who missed our live blog Wednesday of Midmorning’s discussion of the jobs-skills mismatch, here’s the audio.  
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Video games, same-sex dorms and the Confederate flag

Catholic University’s same-sex dorms deemed legal Earlier this year, Catholic University President John Garvey began to banish co-ed dorms and reinstitute the old-school practice of housing women and men in separate buildings. Soon after, George Washington University law professor John F. Banzhaf III challenged the legality of that decision and filed a discrimination complaint with the D.C. Office of Human Rights. (The…
by Alex Friedrich

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