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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.

Stay informed about local education events, policies and more happening in schools and colleges across Minnesota.

Early faculty retirements on MnSCU campuses

Lest we forget that layoffs aren’t the only way to shed staff, 41 faculty members have accepted early retirement incentives from campuses in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system, according to today’s figures.  System officials say the numbers would include tenured and non-tenured faculty, but a breakdown of that wasn’t available at the time of…
by Alex Friedrich

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These layoffs are rare

These layoffs are rare

MPR/Tim Post Professors are bracing themselves Yesterday Tim Post reported that Mankato State is giving layoff notices to a dozen faculty members, a third of whom are tenured. A third tenured — that’s rare. For tenured professors to lose their jobs is a sign of a severe financial situation, say university and faculty representatives. “The universities haven’t…
by Alex Friedrich

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Princeton's MN Picks: Carleton, St. Olaf, Gustavus and Mac

Just four Minnesota liberal arts colleges made this year’s Princeton Review annual college rankings — Carleton, St. Olaf, Gustavus Adolphus and Macalester.   Most achievements were in the lifestyle department, with the exception of Carleton’s “Professors Get High Marks” and Mac’s “Most Popular Study Abroad Programs.”   Alas, the almighty U didn’t place.    …
by Alex Friedrich

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Should Bethel be responsible for who's under its roof?

Should Bethel be responsible for who's under its roof?

Matthew McDermott via Wikimedia Commons Welcome at Bethel? Academic and environmental blogs have been aflame over the recent nastiness of the dispute between climate skeptic Christopher Monckton and St. Thomas University professor John Abraham. Amid all the hubbub over Monckton’s outlandish behavior and the debate over who has the science right, something strikes me as odd: Here we have a minor celebrity…
by Alex Friedrich

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Layoffs at Mankato State

Just learned from colleague Tim Post that the last of a dozen Minnesota State University faculty members in Mankato has received a layoff notice.   A third of them are tenured.   University officials say the layoffs are needed in the face of state-funding cuts that will probably leave the school with a $6 million to $10 million budget shortfall in fiscal…
by Alex Friedrich

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(Comic) What school Web sites are good for

Randall Munroe/xkcd And that’s just to check whether it’s a school, college or university   Great piece to start your week. To find the author and his other work, go here.
by Alex Friedrich

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New law informs guardians when student has mental emergency

A new state law that allows colleges and universities to inform parents when a student has mental health emergency takes effect Sunday.
by Rupa Shenoy

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Word of the Day: Verbigeration

Word of the Day: Verbigeration

OK, I had an idea of what this $25 word meant when U of M professor Eva von Dassow used it in her speech to regents last month, but I just had to look it up. verbigeration: n. the constant or obsessive repetition of meaningless words or phrases, as in mental illness. Example: All of the…
by Alex Friedrich

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Watching U officials get lectured

Watching U officials get lectured

A YouTube video that’s blazing its way through the academic community is a 3-minute speech last month to regents by U of M professor Eva von Dassow, who rails about what she sees as the U’s calculated starving of the liberal arts. Von Dassow, who teaches classics and Near Eastern studies, argues that the university’s leaders are overstating…
by Alex Friedrich

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How do we lure the big dogs to the U and MnSCU?

MPR’s Tim Post looks at how officials are figuring out what to pay the future chiefs of both the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system (MnSCU). What each man gets so far: University of Minnesota President Robert Bruininks ranks as one of the highest-paid public college presidents in the U.S. His…
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