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MPR Forum: How to Get a Good, Affordable College Education

MPR Forum: How to Get a Good, Affordable College Education

I’m sure you’ve read everywhere (including here), how complicated the college selection-and-finance game is. Students have to: find the college that fits their needs and personality; get an education that both broadens their intellectual horizons; earn a degree that helps them get a rewarding job out of school; and do all that without breaking the…
by Alex Friedrich

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A Kaler management tool?

A Kaler management tool?

Morning edition producer Curtis Gilbert wondered aloud today about that thing University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler was seen wielding at his inauguration yesterday. All I knew (thanks to Tim Post’s story) was that it’s called a mace, so to satisfy Curtis’s (and now my own) curiosity, I did a search. Here’s some of what…
by Bill Wareham

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How bad is the English in this college essay, really?

Here’s an e-mail that Dana Ferris, an expert in teaching English as a second language, once received from an engineering professor who was peeved about the writing ability of one of his foreign-born engineering students: “I have a student from Turkey. She speaks English beautifully and writes well except for one thing: Turkish has no articles…
by Alex Friedrich

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How colleges can better educate non-native English speakers

I’m here at the St. Mary’s University campus for a seminar on how colleges can better educate and support the growing number of students whose native language is not English. The speakers are starting in just a minute, so here’s a little background for now: 1 in 5 Minnesota College Students Will Call English Their…
by Alex Friedrich

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How Anoka-Ramsey promotes Transfer Week

How Anoka-Ramsey promotes Transfer Week

By flash mob, of course (?) (Or is it a smart mob? I can’t keep up with all these new terms.) The mob was organized by the college’s advising team, and a reader kgreg007 sent this video to me on Twitter.
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Vets, helicopter parents and ditching the car

A Manual for ‘Helicopter Parents’ to Land Their Aircraft Having worked closely over the past four years with some parents who have tended to get a bit overinvolved, my suspicion is that the great majority are well-intentioned. I imagine it’s not easy transitioning from guiding a child through elementary, middle and high school to what’s required…
by Alex Friedrich

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Photos: Pomp and circumstance for new U of M president

Photos: Pomp and circumstance for new U of M president

Eric Kaler was officially inaugurated as the president of the University of Minnesota Thursday, and let those at the school know he's a tough boss who expects a lot from them.
by Nikki Tundel

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University of Minnesota welcomes new president

University of Minnesota welcomes new president

Eric Kaler was officially inaugurated as the president of the University of Minnesota Thursday, and let those at the school know he's a tough boss who expects a lot from them.
by Tim Post

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Minn. AG Swanson sues over aid to for-profit colleges

Minn. AG Swanson sues over aid to for-profit colleges

The Minnesota attorney general has joined a lawsuit against the country's second-largest for-profit college company, alleging that two of its schools in the state illegally collected taxpayer-financed financial aid.

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