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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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Tommies: Here's how to use a Kindle

Tommies: Here's how to use a Kindle

The University of St. Thomas is encouraging its campus community to check out Kindle eBook readers from its O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library. I just found it funny that they posted an online illustration on how to use it. (It’s a good idea, really — just funny in an I-thought-higher-ed-was-at-the-forefront-of-technology kind of way.)
by Alex Friedrich

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What to do if you want to get paid by St. Cloud State

I must admit, I hadn’t thought of this one as a shutdown concern: KVSC radio reports: Student workers and their supervisors are being advised to swiftly enroll in student payroll direct deposit as a potential Minnesota government shutdown approaches. The head of student payroll at St. Cloud State University, Lisa Pesta, sent an email strongly…
by Alex Friedrich

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Bemidji prof to state politicians: Cuts are driving students away

Bemidji prof to state politicians: Cuts are driving students away

mwp_42 via Flickr How many students would leave? Bemidji State English professor Brian Donovan tells visiting legislators that cuts to programs will cause students to go out of state for college — just as his son left Bemidji for the University of Wisconsin after Bemidji’s art program was reduced: “That’s one thing we’re calling the…
by Alex Friedrich

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MN 2020: Remember where you came from

Minnesota 2020 Executive Director John Van Hecke mentions in the Worthington Daily Globe what he sees as an I’ve-got-mine-but-tough-for-you attitude in Minnesota’s higher-ed budget talks: Since the legislative session began, I’ve repeatedly paged through the state’s little green session guide. I noticed a lot of policymakers attended one of Minnesota’s many MnSCU schools, which got…
by Alex Friedrich

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Who says higher-ed makes one a cultivated person?

Who says higher-ed makes one a cultivated person?

http://youtu.be/1V2G0fyQgck Yeah, not the way to impress upon people the merits of higher education, as this woman recently found out on a New York subway train when she was dinged for talking too loudly and using profanity. Choice quotes: “Excuse me ? Do you know what schools I’ve been to and how well-educated I am?”…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Experts, overconfidence and caving in

Rent-an-Expert The business “Expert Insight” allows you to buy personal advice from a Nobel Prize-winning economist or a poker champion. The idea makes more sense, and is more democratic, than you might think. You have probably already paid outrageous sums of money to attend a college or graduate school where the putative point is access…
by Alex Friedrich

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ARW Podcast: How College Pays

ARW Podcast: How College Pays

We've been talking a lot on the podcast about higher education and whether or not it's important to have a college degree in the 21st century economy. This week and next we're going to explore what college degrees are worth, and why they matter so much.

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Two St. Paul schools hoping for positive change with federal program

Two St. Paul schools hoping for positive change with federal program

Students are beginning their summer vacation this week, but two St. Paul elementary schools that are part of the Promise Neighborhood initiative are already preparing for some big changes when students return in the fall.
by Jessica Mador

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Financial aid problems for students would grow if a shutdown drags on

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system should be able to operate in case of a shutdown.  That is if a court approves Gov. Dayton’s decision to give MnSCU access to its reserve funds and tuition revenue tucked away in state bank accounts. And the University of Minnesota plans to keep its doors open in…
by Tim Post

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99-year old graduates after dropping out in 1932

99-year old graduates after dropping out in 1932

Fun story, but it reminds me why academic advisement is so important. Ninety-nine-year-old Oregonian Leo Plass, who this month finally got his degree after dropping out in 1932 to get a job logging, tells KTVZ-TV he later learned he was just a few credits short of his teaching degree when he left school: “They told…
by Alex Friedrich

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