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Is a Carlson student product an innovation — or a stolen idea?

Is a Carlson student product an innovation — or a stolen idea?

http://youtu.be/T8DvIYNKxhg “To do it the way they did it, it’s just not right to be taught that in school. That’s almost plagiarism, and they got the whole school backing up the knowledge and marketing.” — Ron Ely, co-founder of StepNpull, who told the Star Tribune that some Carlson School of Management students created a rival…
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Professors gone wild

Professors gone wild

No, we’re not talking spring break here. Former Wall Street Journal editor Naomi Schaefer Riley takes a shot at tenure and the “lazy,” “incompetent” and “distracted” professors she says protects them when she discusses her book,The Faculty Lounges: And Other Reasons Why You Won’t Get The College Education You Pay For on her old paper’s…
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How U of M golf coaches discussed lesbian candidates sexuality

University of Minnesota tennis player Michele Edlin describes in court a conversation she says she and another student had with swing instructor Ernie Rose about the sexual orientation of Kathryn Brenny — the U’s former assistant golf coach — who is lesbian and is suing the U and its former golf director, claiming they discriminated…
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Adjunct — the word worth 1,000 explanations

I was looking up the word “adjunct” in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary the other day — for non-academic meanings — and found this: 1ad·junct : something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it Seems to fit the academic sphere as well, eh?
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TiZA ponders legal options after state moves to shut down school

TiZA ponders legal options after state moves to shut down school

Leaders of Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy acknowledge their prospects of reopening their charter school are not good. As of now, the state no longer considers TiZA a public school. TiZA also filed for bankruptcy last week, a move that was made to protect its financial obligations.
by Tom Weber

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Notes in the Margins: Film grads, minorities and a race ban

Public colleges tap private funds as state support dwindles As state subsidies for higher education are dwindling, public colleges in the Washington region and elsewhere are learning they must tap private funds to survive. (The Washington Post) College Board Finds Minority Men Continue to Lag Academically A report highlights an ongoing achievement gap, then recommends…
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ARW Podcast: Valuing the Liberal Arts

ARW Podcast: Valuing the Liberal Arts

Many schools that offer degrees in the liberal arts and sciences are adapting the ways they teach to meet the demands of the 21st century.

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Kaler: U of M to operate as normal after shutdown

Eric Kaler said the school will operate as normal during the shutdown even without money from the state. Classes and research will continue and hospitals and clinics will stay open.
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Rising applications at Macalester College puts it on "trendy" list

Rising applications at Macalester College puts it on "trendy" list

MPR Photo/Tim Post Macalester is “trendy”     The Huffington Post has named St. Paul’s Macalester College one of the “trendiest” in the nation because of a big jump in applications at the school. The Huff Post also cites the appeal of the small liberal arts college’s “quirky intellectual” feel.
by Tim Post

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Kaler starts work at U of M, hits parade scene on 4th

MPR Photo/Jeff Thompson Kaler’s welcome: a shutdown, a tough budget, and a parade.       Today is Eric Kaler’s first day on the job as president of the University of Minnesota. What a welcome.  Kaler takes over the same day as the state government shuts down.  Plus he’s unsure of his school’s state funding…
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