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What's new at the U

What's new at the U

On the video this week: We unveil the 2011 Spring Jam headline band (LA pop quartet “Ok Go”), look at new research on the health habits of young parents and congratulate a U of M dance professor on winning a prestigious Guggenheim award.
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Pells, optimism and the global b-school gap

The Global Business School Gap Many b-schools are trying to make inroads worldwide, but a report suggests there are still significant steps that need to be made. (U.S. News & World Report) Pell Grant Cuts Hurt For-Profit Colleges After 8-Fold Rise For-profit colleges, led by Apollo Group Inc.’s University of Phoenix, will be disproportionately hurt by…
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What some law students use to decompress

What some law students use to decompress

Yeah, lawyers need love too. That’s why the University of Minnesota has dogs at the law school as part of Pet Therapy Day. Nick Thompson, first-year law student representative for the U’s Law Council, tells the interviewer that students can pet and play with the dogs as a way to relax between classes: “They’re just a…
by Alex Friedrich

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Granite Falls manager: It's hard to find trained workers

The Advocate Tribune reports on what people in Granite Falls told a consultant during a study of the region’s higher-ed needs: Dave Kafka, a graduate of Minnesota West (Community and Technical College) and Plant Manager at Marr Valve, noted that about 80 percent of the employees at the manufacturer had graduated from Minnesota West but…
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Tommie creates textbook Web site

Tommie creates textbook Web site

Underbooks.com At a campus near you University of St. Thomas senior Nick Bussa tells TommieMedia why he likes Underbooks.com, a student-built Web site that gives textbook-price comparisons from both their university’s bookstore and a number of online book distributors. “It just gives students so many more tools when they’re trying to find textbooks. It would…
by Alex Friedrich

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Pappas: What is going to happen to the U?

“I just see devastating cuts. A 19 percent cut to the University of Minnesota? I mean does that mean we’re going to close Crookston, we’re going close Morris, we’re going to close the Rochester campus, close the St. Paul campus? What’s going to happen there?” — Sen. Sanday Pappas (DFL-St. Paul) in an interview with…
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Retired MN West chief may be Southwest interim prez

Just got this from MnSCU: Ronald Wood recommended as interim president of Southwest Minnesota State University Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Chancellor James H. McCormick said Friday he will recommend that Ronald Wood be appointed interim president of Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall. Wood, who retired as president of Minnesota West Community and Technical…
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No more tobacco at Bemidji State

No more tobacco at Bemidji State

SuperFantastic via Flickr Not here Bemidji State University is now tobacco-free, The Bemidji Pioneer reports. BSU President Richard Hanson approved the ban this week after a campus survey found 93 percent of those polled considered second-hand smoke a health hazard and 77 percent said they were exposed to second-hand smoke at the university. BSUSA Student…
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MN-WI reciprocity payment differences lower than reported

Sandy Connolly of the state Office of Higher Education says yesterday’s Pioneer Press editorial about the Minnesota-Wisconsin reciprocity agreement on in-state tuition has its numbers off: While it is true that there is a $3,300 difference this year between U of M – Twin Cities resident tuition and fees and UW-Madison resident tuition and fees,…
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U of M parking garages lose that human touch

U of M parking garages lose that human touch

We’re accustomed to seeing auto-pay stations in most parking garages these days.  But the U of M has been somewhat of a hold out.  The U’s 16 parking garages are staffed by attendants, real live human attendants. No more.  The U will start installing automatic equipment at its parking garages next month.  All 16 garages, plus…
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