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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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Notes in the Margins: Head cams, a data deluge and the higher-ed bubble

Universities On The Brink Like many situations too good to be true–like the dot-com boom, the Enron bubble, the housing boom or the health care cost explosion–the ever-increasing cost of university education is not sustainable. (Forbes) NYU Professor Wafaa Bilal’s Body Rejects Head-Cam Implant New York University arts professor Wafaa Bilal, who recently implanted a camera…
by Alex Friedrich

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Alternative teacher license bill heads to committee

House and Senate negotiators will soon begin working out the differences between two alternative teacher licensure bills.
by Tim Pugmire

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State university students and faculty tell it to the House

Today, faculty and students told the state House’s higher education committee about their experiences and attitudes toward budget cuts. A lot of the stories they told legislators weren’t pretty. I had to leave an hour into it, but here are the highlights of what I heard: Loss of faculty. English professor Don Larsson of Minnesota…
by Alex Friedrich

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Heading to the Capitol for student testimony

Students and faculty are expected to speak at 12:30 before state House higher education committee. The info should be general in nature, but I might hear some interesting stories. You can follow me on Twitter at @MPRAFriedrich
by Alex Friedrich

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Social networking: Creating narcissistic students, or attracting them? And is that so bad?

Social networking: Creating narcissistic students, or attracting them? And is that so bad?

Should we chalk up the results above to social networking by our college children? According to a USA Today piece on today’s college students, there may be a correlation. Yet this York University piece last September suggested that social media sites such as Facebook might just be attracting narcissists and those with low self-esteem. A…
by Alex Friedrich

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What do Minnesota professors tell students about textbooks?

I’ve written about a state report on ways to keep textbook costs down – including how professors can help – as well as how students at community colleges and state universities see the issue. One of the findings (and I’ll explore more in coming days) was that only about four in 10 students thought professors…
by Alex Friedrich

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MPR's PoliGraph: Dayton's tuition statement not entirely true

MPR's PoliGraph: Dayton's tuition statement not entirely true

MPR’s PoliGraph says that Gov. Mark Dayton’s statement on higher ed funding in his State of the State address yesterday — “Tuition in our state’s two-year public colleges has risen to the third-highest in the nation; tuitions in our four-year universities are among the top-ten highest.” — is misleading. PoliGraph says Dayton was looking at…
by Alex Friedrich

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University CFOs to lawmakers: Stop eyeing our reserves

Laura King, chief financial officer for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system, explains to MPR’s Tim Post why legislators shouldn’t see colleges’ reserve funds as solutions to shortfalls in state funding: “That wouldn’t be the way you’d want to use it. Because it creates a continuing obligation that you don’t have the resources for.”…
by Alex Friedrich

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Student paper: Regents play innocent in student suicide

The Minnesota Daily chastises the University of Minnesota Board of Regents for dismissing eight bioethicists’s call for an independent investigation into the suicide of Dan Markingson, a U student who participated in a U of M psychiatric research study: The University seems to think that because it was not held liable in court for Markingson’s death,…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Tolkien, Muslims and the beloved Internet

Tens of thousands of veterans still waiting for GI Bill money The Department of Veterans Affairs is blaming bad weather for a paperwork backlog that’s left tens of thousands of college students without their February GI Bill money, and it says some may not see their payments for another week or so. (The Virginian-Pilot) ‘Tolkien…
by Alex Friedrich

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