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How Concordia College is retooling its business program, facilities

How Concordia College is retooling its business program, facilities

The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead reports on Concordia College’s transformation of the Grant Center into the new Offutt School of Business: When the roughly $13 million project is done, the footprint of the building originally used for food service will remain, but nearly everything else will be different. “The layout bears absolutely no resemblance,” said Greg…
by Alex Friedrich

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Duncan: How did Loughner get a gun?

“From what I read, they said to the family that ‘he needs some help and we won’t take him back until you get him some help.’ I’m not quite sure what else that community college can do. … If I was the chancellor of that community college, I think that would have been my response.…
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How historians may become businesspeople

Just as more and more journalists have had to become “entrepreneurs” who market their work and keep an eye on the number of reader clicks they generate, so too must professors, it seems. Inside Higher Ed reports on how history instructors may indeed have to adopt the very business mentality they resent: One solution to…
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How can Minnesota colleges monitor disruptive students?

MPR’s Tim Post has this piece on how Minnesota colleges and universities approach the tough task of monitoring disruptive, potentially violent students. It’s a tough job, they say, dealing with a student who seems menacing but who has made not threats. (That’s echoed in this New York Times piece and Huffington Post piece on the…
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Notes in the Margins: Loughner, foreign detainees and the business mindset

Far From Canada, Aggressive U.S. Border Patrols Snag Foreign Students University officials say the students have been detained even when in compliance with visa laws. (chronicle.com) Law Schools Are Urged to Focus More on Practical Skills and Less on Research Such a shift is needed at a time when big law firms are balking at…
by Alex Friedrich

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FBI scrutinizes Winona State guest speaker

For those who’ve missed it, I’m posting MPR reporter Laura Yuen’s article on University of Victoria professor Waziyatawin (formerly known as Angela Cavender Wilson), a Minnesota American Indian scholar who drew the attention of the FBI when she told a Winona State University audience that the Dakota people might have to reclaim lost tribal lands…
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Best of Youth Radio 2010

Best of Youth Radio 2010

Midday presents six stories from MPR's Youth Radio series from the past year, including updates from some of the reporters on what's changed since their stories were first broadcast.

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How law schools make themselves look (too) good

Indiana University law professor William Henderson explains how law schools can continue to issue rosy job outlooks for grads even though so many are unemployed and choking on student loans: “Enron-type accounting standards have become the norm. “Every time I look at this data, I feel dirty.”
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Some top Tommie photos

Some top Tommie photos

St. Thomas photographers Mike Ekern, Mark Jensen and Thomas Whisenand have posted a slideshow of their favorite St. Thomas photos out of the 6,500 or so what they took in 2010. You can check it out here.
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(Update) For-profit college shares plunge; Capella down almost 20 percent

Here’s the updated piece from Bloomberg. Capella University’s dive was a little larger than in the previous report: 19.71%. Strayer Education Inc. led declines among for-profit colleges, with its shares falling the most in almost 11 years, after the company said government scrutiny of education companies discouraged students from enrolling. The Arlington, Virginia-based company, which…
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