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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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Video: Inside the college admissions process

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…
by Alex Friedrich

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MnSCU's only agronomy program spared the ax at Southwest Minnesota State

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.…
by Alex Friedrich

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Gustavus changing escort service because of misuse

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,…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Cafeteria trays, nincompoops and the Fighting Soux

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…
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Newsmaker: Political stalemate in Wisconsin

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.

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Dayton criticizes new teacher licensing bill

Gov. Mark Dayton is criticizing a plan for an alternative way to license new teachers that is now moving through the Legislature.

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Selection of Brod as U's regents candidate questioned by Democrats

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…
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State higher education office lays out budget specifics

House higher education committee members just got a more detailed look at the governor’s higher-ed budget proposal from the state Office of Higher Education this afternoon. I’m trying to post a PDF of the Office of Higher Education’s take when I get one, but for now I’ll give some highlights from the paper copy. Though…
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Madison schools closed for second day

Wisconsin's second largest school district canceled classes for a second day as teachers prepared spend another day at the Capitol in protest of Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to strip government workers of nearly all collective bargaining rights.

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Heading to Capitol for higher-ed budget hearing

The state House committee on higher ed is meeting at 12:30 to discuss Governor Mark Dayton’s proposed budget for higher ed. I’ll be covering it, and will try to tweet (@MPRAFriedrich) the interesting stuff — but WiFi there is notoriously spotty. I’ll do my best.
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