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The state's largest school district has joined those that have canceled classes due to teacher shortages caused by union protests at the state Capitol.
Here’s a belated update to the lawsuit story involving the Turkish Coalition of America’s lawsuit against the University of Minnesota and its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies over the center’s “blacklisting” of the coalition’s Web site I got this release from the College of Liberal Arts: In a gesture of solidarity with the University…
Here’s some detail from Gov. Dayton’s budget on proposed spending for the University of Minnesota, the Minnesota State Colleges and University system, and the state Office of Higher Education:
Video: Inside the college admissions process
Have all your applications in and wondering what’s happening to them right now? To give us a flavor, the Today Show takes us into the admissions process at one institution — Grinnell College in Iowa — and chats with Jacques Steinberg, higher ed writer for The New York Times. I’m not sure whether it’s comforting…
MnSCU's only agronomy program spared the ax at Southwest Minnesota State
Here’s a hopeful update to the budget-cutting at Southwest Minnesota State University: The Independent reports that the university’s agronomy program — the only one in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system — has been more or less spared, and the number of faculty to be laid off has been reduced from three to one.…
Gustavus changing escort service because of misuse
Sergeant Mike English of Gustavus Adolphus College’s campus safety division tells The Gustavian Weekly one reason the school is changing its motorized campus escort program from a call-in service to one more like a bus system, with a route and 14 pick-up points: “In the years that the Campus Safety escort system has been in use,…
Cafeteria trays vanishing from colleges in effort to save food Today, when trays are removed from university dining halls, it’s more likely by the administration than students in search of a good sled. And perhaps inevitably, on some campuses that has created a backlash. (Washington Post) In Puerto Rico, Protests End Short Peace At University…
Newsmaker: Political stalemate in Wisconsin
GOP lawmakers in Wisconsin's state senate are planning to vote today on a bill proposed by Governor Scott Walker that would end collective bargaining for state county and local workers, but senate Democrats remain in Illinois. Midmorning gets the latest on the stalemate.
Gov. Mark Dayton is criticizing a plan for an alternative way to license new teachers that is now moving through the Legislature.
The partisan spat over yesterday’s where-did-that-come-from selection of former Republican state Rep. Laura Brod as the at-large candidate for the U’s Board of Regents hasn’t subsided. Two Democratic House members are suggesting Republicans pulled a fast one when they selected fellow Republican Brod as candidate to a regents seat she hadn’t been nominated for. One…