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Video: Experts? Bah. We need more educated generalists.

Video: Experts? Bah. We need more educated generalists.

On a more serious note, stick with this somewhat longish video. Bennington College President Liz Coleman gives an understated yet compelling talk about the dangers of leaving society in the hands of narrowly focused “experts,” politicians and religious radicals — and the need for a liberal arts education to get off the fence and start…
by Alex Friedrich

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Humor: Why your college president wants to cut liberal arts

America is now a nation of people who DO things like post on Facebook, or run for Senate, rather than KNOW things, like Plato’s allegory of the cave, or the First Amendment of the Constitution. This year, the Jersey Shore’s Mike “the Situation” Sorrentino will reportedly earn $5 million. In contrast, last year, only one…
by Alex Friedrich

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Poll: Do community colleges have a stigma at your high school?

While attending a student leadership conference in Bloomington in late October, I heard students talk about the stigma of community college — and how teachers and counselors push most students toward four-year institutions. Is that true from your experience? Please let us know. I’ve already started asking members of MPR’s Public Insight Network — parents,…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why so many med school faculty are fed up

The blog Health Care Renewal despairs over the results of a recent survey of more than 5000 faculty members at 26 nationally representative American medical schools, which produced this sample of results: 51% agreed that ‘the administration is only interested in me for the revenue I generate’; 31%; that ‘the culture of my institution discourages…
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Tommies light it up for Advent

Tommies light it up for Advent

Looks like St. Thomas has already gotten into the holiday spirit with its Advent tree-lighting ceremony. Watch slideshow by TommieMedia’s Zach Pagano here.
by Alex Friedrich

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St. Cloud president: MnSCU chancellorship not for me

“My response was ‘I am not a candidate, and I will not be a candidate.’ “ — St. Cloud State University President Earl Potter at a forum Wednesday after he was essentially asked whether he was interested in replacing Chancellor James McCormick of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.
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Notes in the Margins: Going private, older Japanese students and competitive eating

Grant Calder: If Penn State Goes Private, Will It Have to Change Its Name? The university has managed to thrive despite a steady decline in state funding — down to 6 percent. And the number seems destined to continue dropping. For a world-class, “state-related” institution, as Penn State is known, this raises a question: Does…
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Documents: The Turkish Coalition lawsuit against the U of Minnesota

For those interested in reading the main documents in the legal battle over the University of Minnesota’s portrayal of the Web site of the Turkish Coalition of America, I’ve scrounged up the lawsuit and an image of the portrayal in question. In a nutshell: Armenia and Turkey have long argued over whether Turkish forces committed…
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What one student found when he Googled himself

What one student found when he Googled himself

Possibly every cop’s (and reporter’s) mini-nightmare, as reported by WSTP-TV: University of Florida freshman Zachary Garcia recently Googled his name and found a picture of his driver’s license and information linking him to a murder he didn’t commit. Looks like the local sheriff’s office put out the wrong information. Garcia and the man actually charged…
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Why college presidents should earn the big bucks

The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities says why it thinks critics should stop trying to make a connection between executive salaries and tuition: Presidential salaries make up a very small percentage of overall campus budgets, and have virtually no impact on tuition increases. In fact, inflation-adjusted net tuition at nonprofit private colleges and…
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