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Pogemiller starts new job as higher education chief
After three decades of service as a Minnesota State Senator, Larry Pogemiller begins a new job as director of the Office of Higher Education. He joins Midday to talk about his views on Minnesota's colleges and universities.
Beginning in July, Minnesota students should receive full Minnesota State Grant awards — the first time in two years, according to a report announced today by the state Office of Higher Education. The state’s scholarship program is projected to be $6.6 million in the black over the next biennium, the office reports. But that could…
System Chancellor Steven Rosenstone says many Minnesotans are closer than they think to earning a degree, which would make them more attractive to employers.
In light of last week’s Governor’s Job Summit, discussion of STEM and the need for higher education to work more with business, St. Cloud State has some big words about its $45 million ISELF science teaching-and-research building, which should open in 2013: ISELF is the big idea, the game changer that will transform St. Cloud…
What Rep. John Kline told Fox News about Obama's student loan reform
Here’s a Fox and Friends interview yesterday of U.S. Rep. John Kline (R-MN) on President Obama’s plan last week to reform the student loan program. He said he’s concerned that Obama is using executive orders to bypasses Congress on this, that a number of people find the reform confusing, and adds that the program is “going…
Boomer Parent’s Lament I was struck by a failing of many fellow parents of recession-whacked Millennials. For all the efforts to raise hyper-achievers, we didn’t teach enough of a basic survival skill — to find joy in simple things not connected to a grade, a trophy or a job.  (The New York Times) Early classes equal…
Test scores did not change significantly last year in 25 southwest Minnesota school districts that had special permission to begin the school year before Labor Day, according to a report.