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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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Rejecting campuses: Pickiness or sound judgment?

I’ve driven four hours to have my son refuse to get out of the car because he didn’t like the look of the campus; I’ve flown halfway across the country to have my daughter bail out before the tour because she didn’t like the looks of the other prospective students (“too intense”) and because the…
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How to survive a campus tour with your child

How to survive a campus tour with your child

It’s campus touring time, and Taking the Kids columnist and family-topic author Eileen Ogintz has some tips on The Huffington Post on how to make the most of a college-inspection trip with your son or daughter. Here’s a brief rundown: Splurge on a nice hotel or a fancy dinner. Revel in the time together with…
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St. Cloud meteorology students' new toy

St. Cloud meteorology students' new toy

MPR’s Ambar Espinoza has this piece on St. Cloud State University meteorology students getting a rare opportunity to use a $1 million “Doppler on Wheels” radar unit. The Center for Severe Weather Research, with help from the National Science Foundation, makes it available free to small universities that don’t have their own radar facilities. As…
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Profs' e-books, college recruiters, rankings and hiring

From where I sit – Free to succeed What is the recipe for making a world-class university? For such a complex endeavour, there is no simple or sure formula for success, but there are certain principles that I believe are of vital importance for ETH Zürich – the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. (timeshighereducation.co.uk) Report…
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MnSCU enrollment keeps climbing, tops 200,000

Enrollment topped 200,000 this fall in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System, making it the fifth straight year of increases and setting a new record.
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MnSCU sees record enrollment

Tim Post of MPR reports that enrollment in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system has hit another record. More than 203,000 students are are enrolled in MnSCU’s 32 schools this fall. That’s a 2.7 percent increase over last year and the fifth consecutive year that enrollment has gone up. MnSCU spokesperson Melinda Voss…
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Why isn't Tommie tailgating taking hold?

Why isn't Tommie tailgating taking hold?

The push to restart tailgating at the University of St. Thomas has fallen a bit flat, TommieMedia reports. Out of the 30 or so people who showed up in South Campus Lot M, none was a student. Could it be the lack of booze allowed? The lack of loud music? Let’s think really hard. In…
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Mpls. superintendent would phase out high school

The Minneapolis schools superintendent is recommending phasing out North High Community High School.

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Flaws, conflicts that one newspaper sees in Troubled Waters film

“Troubled Waters” rightly highlights traditional agriculture’s role in Mississippi River pollution, but it only skims the surface of the science behind the Gulf of Mexico “dead zone,” and it should have explained the difficulties of scaling up organic agriculture, as well as the challenges of new precision agriculture techniques it advocates. The documentary also ignores…
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St. Scholastica one of the best for vets

St. Scholastica one of the best for vets

The College of St. Scholastica has been ranked 34th best college in the nation for military veterans by the Military Times Edge magazine — one of four Minnesota nonprofit and for-profit colleges. The magazine ranked colleges according to the financial assistance they give vets, academic flexibility, campus culture (such as ROTC programs and percentage of…
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