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January 25, 2012 1:12 AM

Notes in the Margins: Obama, private dorms and no-money-down student loans

Obama on (higher) education in State of the Union address Here’s the part of President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address that was about education, taken from a text prepared for delivery, (The Washington Post) Renaissance Man For two and a half years, Jeremy Gleick, a sophomore majoring in bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, has…

by Alex Friedrich

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January 24, 2012 8:04 AM

Photo: What your college students are really doing in class

I’m sure you faculty have already dissected your own classes. Do they look like this? Got this from The Huffington Post, which notes that the photo by rivalxshowxtime is actually from 2007.

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January 24, 2012 7:45 AM

Minnesota has nation's seventh-largest collegiate brain drain

Minnesota is apparently #7 in a Washington Post blogger’s list of states suffering the largest collegiate “brain drain.” At a time when 75 percent of U.S. students study in their home state, Minnesota experienced a net loss 4,401 high-school grads to colleges in other states, according to the post, which relied on data from the…

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January 24, 2012 7:24 AM

What rules does the U think Sviggum might be breaking?

Much of this conflict-of-interest talk surrounding the decision by University of Minnesota regent Steve Sviggum to take a Republican Senate staff job has been a little general. Just what regulations does the university think he might be violating? After all, Sviggum said the Board of Regents’ conflict-of-interest policy doesn’t list his job as one that’s…

by Alex Friedrich

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January 24, 2012 4:53 AM

Do Minnesota businesses really need training incentives?

I’m intrigued by Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s mention in the Rochester Post-Bulletin of a proposal for feds to work with businesses on what I assume will be training programs: I’m working right now to develop federal legislation that would, among other things, build on the success in Alexandria (Technical and Community College) by providing incentives for small…

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January 24, 2012 2:27 AM

The urban bubble phenomenon in Minnesota job skills

While describing what Alexandria Technical and Community College is doing to help decrease Minnesota’s job-skills mismatch, the Echo Press explains one of the dynamics involved: It’s an urban “bubble” phenomenon: for each hour that you drive away from the Twin Cities and into rural areas, manufacturing’s workforce gap widens. Read the full story here.

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January 24, 2012 2:08 AM

Notes in the Margins: Free courses, president-profs and on-campus recovery

University presidents pitch in as professors You roll into class with your cup of coffee, grab a seat and open up your laptop. The professor at the front of the room is one of the most well-known and powerful people on campus, the university president. (The Washington Post) Free courses may shake universities’ monopoly on…

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January 23, 2012 8:59 AM

What MN students are eyeing this legislative session

As I try to get a view of what might be discussed this legislative session, I thought I’d talk to representatives from the two groups representing students in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system. I spoke recently with Jonathan Bohn of the Minnesota State University Student Association, as well as Geoff Dittberner and…

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January 23, 2012 7:14 AM

University of Vermont: Provost Tom Sullivan wants to be our prez

Outgoing University of Minnesota Provost Tom Sullivan is a finalist for the presidency of the University of Vermont, the university in New England has announced. Sullivan, who is reportedly scheduled to interview there on Wednesday and Thursday is apparently one of five finalists — yes, five and not just one — each of whom is…

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January 23, 2012 2:01 AM

U ag dean Levine: Why Yahoo! blogger has no idea about agriculture

Agriculture is a far different industry than it was 50, 30, or even 10 years ago, and agricultural education has changed in similar ways. To make assumptions based on outdated stereotypes about agriculture unfairly misleads young people. — University of Minnesota Dean Al Levine of the College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences on a…

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