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MPR News keeps track of the latest education news in Minnesota so you can understand the events shaping the future of learning and how it impacts students at any level.

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What difference does a master's make?

“It makes a tremendous difference. I think there is a certain subset of business careers that are only available to MBA graduates. Currently at the Carlson School (University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus) the average pre-MBA salary of our students is $40,500. With Class of 2011 graduates, the average is around $95,000. So, over twice,…
by Alex Friedrich

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What policies would go in a shutdown agreement?

MPR’s Catharine Richert reports that Gov. Mark Dayton has announced he’ll agree to a GOP pre-shutdown offer to end the current shutdown stalemate: Dayton set three conditions. He wants the GOP to drop policy changes included in earlier proposals, such as a ban on taxpayer funded abortion and a ban on cloning. He also wants…
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How St. Cloud State is tackling student drinking

How St. Cloud State is tackling student drinking

St. Cloud State, a school that has made this blog’s party coverage, has drawn some positive attention from Campus Safety magazine for its efforts to curb student drinking: … St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minn., has battled its reputation as a party school through the development of a collaborative program between the school…
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Why Midwesterners are finally warming to the gap year before college

“Gap-year” consultant Holly Bull tells the Pioneer Press how she counters parents’ concerns about allowing their high-school-grad children to take a year off before going to college: “I ask them: ‘Remember when you were 18? Wouldn’t you have wanted to have taken the time to explore?’ Now is the perfect time to do it because…
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Notes in Margins: Merit awards, dwindling grads and the 17th century

Admission dean pulls back curtain on merit aid The admission dean at University of Rochester pen an unusually candid list of 12 “steps that mattered” in merit awards at his school this year, and the approximate dollar value of each factor in shaping the merit award. (The Washington Post) Biddy Martin Wants To Use Tuition Hike…
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Details on the U's voluntary leaves of absence

Yesterday afternoon I posted that the University of Minnesota is offering voluntary leaves of absence to help cope with the state shutdown. I called in for details, and today the U’s VP for human resources, Kathy Brown, ended up talking to MPR colleague Tim Post. This is apparently a narrowly tailored program designed to help…
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Site: Carleton one of the friendliest campuses

Site: Carleton one of the friendliest campuses

Man, Northfield must just bring out the warm fuzzies in everyone there. We’ve seen how St. Olaf is apparently among the friendliest colleges for junior faculty. Now Carleton across town has made The Huffington Post’s list of friendliest colleges. Here’s what the site has to say: Over the years, Carleton students have created a laundry…
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How med students are mistreated at the U

“It’s a culture that values performance and punishes poor performance with personal humiliation.” — Chris Thompson, a fourth-year University of Minnesota medical student on the culture of harassment of students at the U’s medical school. In a recent survey, 14.5% of students there reported they’d been mistreated — a figure that’s actually below the national…
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What Chancellor Rosenstone's face has inspired

“They’re a great likeness of me. Or should I say, they’re a great caricature?” — Incoming Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system Chancellor Steven Rosenstone to Lake Superior College ceramics instructor Dorian Beaulieu and his students, who were making coffee mugs with designed by a photo of Rosenstone. Rosenstone toured the college June 28.…
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