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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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List of 20 Worst-Managed University Endowments

List of 20 Worst-Managed University Endowments

To put the story of the U’s plunge in its endowment into a little perspective, see the list by Financial Web site 24/7 Wall St. of this year’s Best- and Worst-Managed Endowments at universities. Thanks to Professor Bill Gleason for pointing it out.  The 20 Worst Managed Endowments: 1) Harvard, down 30% and $10.9 billion 2)…
by Alex Friedrich

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Something for TCF Bank Stadium to aspire to

Something for TCF Bank Stadium to aspire to

  Manningmbd via Wikimedia Commons Would it take a Big Ten championship for our U students to snap up tickets? The Big Ten has selected Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis as the proposed site for the conference’s first football championship game to be played December 2011, the Associated Press has reported.  The Big Ten announced…
by Alex Friedrich

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The U's med-ethics policy: One comparison

I wanted to lay some groundwork showing how the University of Minnesota’s conflict-of-interest policy has stood compared to others — before getting an idea of where it’s going. So I consulted the American Medical Student Association’s scorecard to get an idea. It’s not great. The U’s policy scored a D in 2008. The association, however, bumped the U’s provisional grade to a C based on a draft of…
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Summary of the U's conflict-of-interest policy

Summary of the U's conflict-of-interest policy

jglazer75 via Wikimedia Commons U of M Medical Center The University of Minnesota has finally released its ethics policy over conflicts of interest that may occur when its medical faculty and staff are involved with businesses that have a connection to their university work. It’s been about three years in the making, and is apparently stricter than the…
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U's medical conflict-of-interest policy is out

Find it here. I’ll post a summary story with some context and reaction in a bit.
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St. Paul schools get $3M to train school leaders

Five schools in St. Paul identified this year as among the state's worst performers are getting more than $3 million to boost leadership.
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U of M endowment plunges

The economic crisis caused the value of U of M’s endowment to drop 24.2% between 2008 and 2009 — the second biggest loss among Big Ten schools, according to this piece in The Minnesota Daily. The biggest loser in the Big 10 was Northwestern, whose endowment dropped 24.8%. Couldda-been-worse tidbit: While the University of Minnesota lost more than…
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GAO fraud video

The feds have put up the video on their investigation into for-profit colleges, along with a transcript. A quick sample: Example 4: Financial Aid Counselors Assisted Students in Committing Fraud Clip 1: Financial Aid Counselor tells student with $250,000 in the bank that he should not report that money on his FAFSA, counter to Department…
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Web cartoon nails it

Web cartoon nails it

Randall Munroe/xkcd A Web designer’s nightmare My thanks to Professor Bill Gleason of The Periodic Table for pointing out that Monday’s comic — which pokes fun at useless college Web sites — is causing a stir in academic circles. Education journalists have groaned about this privately for years. The article nails this part: The xkcd cartoon was particularly apt…
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GAO investigation into for-profits: Original material here.

Looks like the government-crackdown-on-for-profit-colleges story is heating up with this investigation by the GAO. Here’s the link to the GAO site, where you can find the full report. The page is supposed to have a video clips of undercover ops and voicemail messages from the college recruiters, but they don’t appear to be up yet.
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