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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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Two Rhodes Scholars hail from Roseville

Two Rhodes Scholars hail from Roseville

Rhodes Scholars Priya Sury (courtesy University of Minnesota) and Prerna Nadathur (courtesy University of Chicago) Thirty-two Rhodes Scholars are selected each year to represent the United States – and this year two of them are from Roseville (I’m no Rhodes Scholar, but my cell phone calculator tells me that’s 6.25 percent of the total.) They…
by Bill Wareham

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How to manage food allergies in college

How to manage food allergies in college

I never realized how difficult life in college could be for someone with serious food allergies. So much of life is communal — a real problem for those who need to strictly control what they come in contact with. Here are two examples from USA Today‘s Managing a food allergy in college — expert advice:…
by Alex Friedrich

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What Tommies think of early Xmas music

What Tommies think of early Xmas music

*L*u*z*A* via Flickr Straight from Thanksgiving into Christmas St. Thomas senior finance major Ali Davis on the early surge of Christmas music: “I actually started listening to it two weeks ago,” she said. She usually starts listening to Christmas music after Halloween. First it was early Thanksgiving in the cafeteria. Now it’s this. Man, some…
by Alex Friedrich

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I'm off / Light posting today

Taking a day off after the presidential search, but I’ve saved up a few goodies for you, which will appear throughout the day. See you tomorrow.
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Poetry, an affair and a prof with a camera in his head

Students brainstorm to build a better Macalester About thirty-five students gathered in Weyerhaeuser on Wednesday evening with a simple goal in mind: to build a better Macalester. (themacweekly.com) Should MIT Teach Poetry? This past week, graduate student Emily Ruppel wrote an editorial for the MIT newspaper The Tech that offered a formula even a poet…
by Alex Friedrich

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Minnesota schools seek ways to reduce garbage

Minnesota schools seek ways to reduce garbage

About a half-million pounds of used Kleenex, juice boxes, worn out sneakers and the mystery-meat casserole judged inedible by half the third grade lands in wastebaskets, garbage cans and recycling bins in Minnesota public schools.

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U president search over, but concerns over openness of process linger

U president search over, but concerns over openness of process linger

Some open government advocates say those private meetings appear to be in violation of the state open meeting law, but university officials say they did nothing wrong.
by Tim Post

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Is St. Cloud State's new fee a bailout or boon?

Just a little follow-up to yesterday’s news about St. Cloud State students approving a $1.74-per-credit fee increase to save Husky football and other sports. So it looks like the average full-time student taking 12 credit hours will pay almost $21 per semester extra for the next three years — about a 7.5 percent increase to…
by Alex Friedrich

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Overview of Kaler's appointment

In case you missed it, Tim Post did his own wrap-up of yesterday’s appointment of Eric Kaler as University of Minnesota president, and revealed some of Kaler’s views on running the U: “We’re not going to slash and burn,” Kaler said. “But we are going to look critically at best practices from higher education operations…
by Alex Friedrich

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Light posting today

I’m working on a radio piece — just writing the text and editing the audio — so you won’t see as much out of me today. Enjoy your Friday — but please do check in from time to time.
by Alex Friedrich

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