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What it means to be on a suitcase campus

What it means to be on a suitcase campus

Cynthia Johnson describes in TommieMedia what it’s like being one of few out-of-state students at the University of St. Thomas, which she calls a “suitcase” campus: Because I was from Chicago, this concerned me because many of my new-found Minnesota friends went home for the weekends, leaving an empty feeling on campus I had not…
by Alex Friedrich

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House GOP overall cut to higher ed mirrors Senate's

The Minnesota House has released its budget targets, and calls for a 15.1 percent reduction ($444,000) in funding to higher education from this year’s level. The proposed House appropriation is the same as the Senate’s ($2.51 billion). Because the estimation of spending for this year is a little different, the Senate’s cut ends up looking…
by Alex Friedrich

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(Update) Senator: Professors need to stop being so picky

(Update) Senator: Professors need to stop being so picky

Check out how one state senator has sounded off on professors: In offering a Senate companion bill to the House’s HF717 mandating the 100 percent transfer of credits among MnSCU schools, Sen. Michael Jungbauer (R-East Bethel) told the Senate higher education committee yesterday that professors are just standing in the way. The problem? He suggested…
by Alex Friedrich

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Senate GOP: 16 percent higher ed cut

Senate Republicans released their budget targets this morning, which propose cutting state higher education budget by 16 percent. It proposed $2.5 billion in higher ed appropriations, compared to this year’s $2.98 billion in spending. By comparison, Gov. Mark Dayton’s bill proposed almost $2.75 billion in spending, an 8 percent cut from this year’s level. (Under…
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Site: U of M 4th most corrupt sports program

Site: U of M 4th most corrupt sports program

You can thank Clem Haskins for this one. The University of Minnesota‘s has made Associates Degree’s list of 10 Most Corrupt College Athletic Programs in recent history. It’s ranked the fourth most corrupt in the country, behind the programs of Arizona State, Southern Methodist University and Auburn — but ahead of Wisconsin’s (#8). The Web…
by Alex Friedrich

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Regents to hear how U of M departments will deal with declining funding

Regents to hear how U of M departments will deal with declining funding

This morning U of M provost Tom Sullivan will present a report 18 months in the making. In 2009, Sullivan asked deans throughout the U to assemble Blue Ribbon Committees made up of faculty, staff, students and partners outside the university.  Their charge: lay out a plan to deal with declining budgets in the next…
by Tim Post

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Notes in the Margins: Gaddafi, foreign presidents and an online empire

More Foreign-Born Scholars Lead U.S. Universities The globalization of the college presidency is an outgrowth of the increase of international students on campuses. (The New York Times) Colleges urged to screen more for depression Northwestern professor Michael Fleming said that by screening more students, he and his fellow researchers found that the rates of depression…
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Goldy, a St. Thomas professor did it

Goldy, a St. Thomas professor did it

You know Douglas Dokken, the guy who punched Goldy last Saturday at the gymnastics match? He’s a University of St. Thomas math professor. Yowza. Here’s a statement from St. Thomas spokesman Jim Winterer: A University of St. Thomas mathematics professor has expressed regret over an incident that took place Saturday, March 5, at a University…
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U of Minnesota officials had fined indicted prof couple last year

U of Minnesota officials had fined indicted prof couple last year

This case may sound familiar: Francois Sainfort and Julie Jacko, the prominent University of Minnesota husband-and-wife professor team whose legal troubles MPR reported in 2008, have been indicted in Georgia — accused of illegally drawing paychecks from both the U and Georgia Tech at the same time. They’re charged with conspiracy to defraud the state,…
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