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On Campus Blog

Sviggum decision could wait till early next week

I’ve just gotten off the phone with University of Minnesota Board of Regents Chairwoman Linda Cohen, who told me she’s not expecting to get the second opinion (the outside one) on the Steve Sviggum matter till Monday. So she might not make a decision till then — at the earliest — on what to do.…
by Alex Friedrich

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Have we all been suckered in by that jobs-skills mismatch argument?

In the past year or so I’ve written and reposted a number of articles on the supposed jobs-skills mismatch in Minnesota (and America overall), and some questions have slowly started to nag me. Among them: How can it really be that despite all of our top-flight educational resources there’s a mismatch — and that it’s…
by Alex Friedrich

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Census: How Minnesota stacks up in science and engineering

Census: How Minnesota stacks up in science and engineering

Just got off a conference call regarding some higher-ed results from the U.S. Census. I still have to download and go through the results to see what kind of state-by-state results it has, but for now I’ll give you the chart above. (Don’t expect any time comparisons, though. I was told this was the first…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Textbooks, deferrals and pepper spray

CSU to trade ad campaign for cheaper textbooks The odd new role for CSU administrators – promoting a textbook company’s products over the next three years – turns out to be the university’s perhaps innovative way of addressing one of higher education’s most vexing problems: sky-high textbook prices. In exchange for putting the name “Cengage”…
by Alex Friedrich

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Franken supporting bill targeting vet-enrollment by for-profits

Franken supporting bill targeting vet-enrollment by for-profits

Still catching up on my first day back. In case you haven’t seen this, here’s news on a bill involving U.S. Sen. Al Franken that hits on for-profits’ enrollment of veterans. Below is the Bloomberg article, followed by Franken’s press release. For-Profit Colleges Lose Incentive to Target Vets in Bills For-profit colleges would lose a…
by Alex Friedrich

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UMN Provost Sullivan chosen as University of Vermont president

UMN Provost Sullivan chosen as University of Vermont president

Got this from the U this morning: This morning, the University of Vermont announced that E. Thomas Sullivan has been selected as its next president. Sullivan was Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at the University of Minnesota until January. He also served as the eighth dean of the University of Minnesota Law…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Monitoring Muslims, affirmative action and Iraqi students

Justices Take Up Race as a Factor in College Entry By agreeing to hear a major case involving race-conscious admissions at the University of Texas, the court thrust affirmative action back into the public and political discourse after years in which it had mostly faded from view. I may be a signal that the court’s five…
by Alex Friedrich

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Turkish group takes U of M back to court

It’s been the better part of a year since Alex wrote about the court fight between a Turkish group and the University of Minnesota over the reliability of the group’s site, specifically its information (or lack thereof) on Armenian genocide. Last April a judge dismissed the suit, but the Turkish Coalition of America is appealing…
by Bill Wareham

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Off for a week's vacation

Off for a week's vacation

Just letting you know I’ll be gone for several days, but will be back on Tuesday, Feb. 22. My editor, Bill Wareham, might post a few things in my absence, but it would be light.
by Alex Friedrich

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