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How relevant is art in the working world?

How relevant is art in the working world?

It’s funny what art teaches you. Instructor Aaron Jacobs’ class has this “observational drawing” assignment today: Draw the still-life above — without lifting your pencil off the paper. If you make a mistake, it’s a long road back. That kind of project teaches students to see the the whole picture of what’s in front of…
by Alex Friedrich

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How to roll up your sleeves and get down to business

How to roll up your sleeves and get down to business

Dropped in on Tom Hillstead’s cabinet-making class. Only three weeks in to the semester, students were still learning how to run the machinery, and were working on small projects. Oliver Dority, 20 (in front) and 19-year-old Johnny Lyles, both of St. Paul were planing lumber and preparing to cut it into smaller pieces. Like Speaks…
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What Saint Paul's culinary students fed me for lunch

What Saint Paul's culinary students fed me for lunch

Now comes the really good part: Lunch. I’m dining at City View Grille, the in-house restaurant that serves as training ground for Saint Paul College’s culinary program. My server today is 24-year-old Jeff Speaks, who drives 25 minutes from Plymouth because of the reputation of the program and his ties to instructor Manfred Krug, with…
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How students learn to communicate at Saint Paul

How students learn to communicate at Saint Paul

I’m in Speech 1720 – Interpersonal Communication, which is being taught today by Carol Paulnock. The class is not just for those in the humanities or students who want to go on to a four-year university. It’s a required course for many of the college’s programs, said Daniel Paulnock, chair of the department (and husband…
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How two students exercise at Saint Paul College

How two students exercise at Saint Paul College

Hey, you take-the-elevator-to-go-one-floor types: Be ashamed. I found Madeline Morton and Robert Dawson, two students in personal training program, running up and down the main building’s five flights of stairs as I was headed down to the main floor.
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Watch your typing: It's Saint Paul College

Watch your typing: It's Saint Paul College

Just got done with a little tour and a talk with the college president, Rassoul Dastmozd, which I’ll talk about later. I’m new to technical education, so I found the layout of the machine class above pretty interesting. Class on one side, shop on the other. And I’ve exposed myself again as a newbie by…
by Alex Friedrich

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Now this is breakfast

Now this is breakfast

I’m having breakfast at the college’s City View cafeteria. It’s staffed mostly by students and graduates of the college’s culinary program. No stale Pop Tarts here. I’m having a Belgian waffle with strawberries and whipped cream. Nice touch. Gorgeous view, too.
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Spending the day at St. Paul College

Spending the day at St. Paul College

Today I’ll be hanging out at St. Paul College as part of what I hope is a series of occasional visits to Minnesota campuses. My aim is to get a flavor of the campus by eating the food, touring the school, chatting with students and administrators, and dropping in on some classes and activities. I’ll post…
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Notes in the Margins: Groupons, Fox Sports and Generation Y

Fox Sports Apologizes For Video That ‘Mocks Asian Students’ Fox Sports canceled a show that aired a segment that mocked Asian students who were filmed on the University of Southern California campus. Fox Sports Network spokesman Lou D’Ermilio said in a statement that last week’s segment was “clearly offensive” and that the show “The College Experiment” would…
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