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January 4, 2012 3:19 AM

St. Cloud State's construction Web cam

I’ve already written about how proud Saint Cloud State University is about the Integrated Science and Engineering Laboratory Facility (ISELF) that it’s building. Now it has a Web cam so we can track the progress of construction, the St. Cloud Times reports.

by Alex Friedrich

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January 4, 2012 2:45 AM

How much part-time work is too much for students?

MPR’s Tim Post has a report today about how students are working so much that their studies are suffering. He’s told by 20-year-old Bianca Jones, a full-time University of St. Thomas journalism student who works more than 30 hours a week: “There are days where I just dread having to wake up and go to…

by Alex Friedrich

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January 4, 2012 1:48 AM

Notes in the Margins: Women, football coaches and Naval Academy admissions

Naval Academy, other colleges differ on when an application counts The U.S. Naval Academy received 19,145 applications for the class that began in fall and accepted 1,426. Its admission rate was 7.5 percent, one percentage point lower than Princeton’s. Or was it? Academy leaders acknowledge that only 5,720 of those applications were complete. The rest, more than two-thirds of…

by Alex Friedrich

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January 3, 2012 8:15 AM

How one blog sees MnSCU salary transparency

The Let Freedom Ring Blog rails about what it considers a dearth of easily available information on administrative salaries and job descriptions within the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system: There’s no excuse why universities shouldn’t have an organizational chart, showing who’s in administration and what they’re responsible for. I don’t mean the euphemism-filled…

by Alex Friedrich

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January 3, 2012 5:15 AM

A guide to the new University of North Dakota names

Now that the University of North Dakota has retired its “Fighting Sioux” mascot, the school has been changing the names of associations and programs affiliated with the old name, the Grand Forks Herald reports. (It has no replacement, because by law it’s not supposed to take on another mascot or nickname for a few years.)…

by Alex Friedrich

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January 3, 2012 4:51 AM

Is Northeastern University coming to Minnesota?

Northeastern University in Boston may be coming our way, this recent New York Times piece reports: Northeastern, known for its co-op program in which undergraduates spend significant amounts of time in the workplace, opened its first satellite campus this fall in Charlotte, N.C., and is planning a second in Seattle next year; outposts in Austin,…

by Alex Friedrich

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January 3, 2012 2:40 AM

What's no longer allowed at MSU – Mankato

The Free Press of Mankato has news for university students and staffers there: If you want to purchase an incandescent light bulb or a smoke a cigarette on the Minnesota State University campus — too bad. New regulations are now in effect, so read the full story here.

by Alex Friedrich

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January 3, 2012 2:15 AM

Notes in the Margins: Free speech, banned words and the Indian boom

Pushed out of Harvard, professor returns fire Dismissal stirs debate over free speech. (The New York Times via University Business) 5 Colleges That Are Slashing Tuition Costs A plateau seems to have been reached among certain colleges. A stagnant economy and declining attendance has prompted some colleges and universities to cut tuition costs for the first time…

by Alex Friedrich

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December 30, 2011 6:37 AM

Checking in with Monte Bute

Minnesota Public Radio reporters have picked their most memorable stories from the past year, you can see all of them here. The story I picked was my profile of Monte Bute, a Metropolitan State University professor diagnosed with a rare form of terminal cancer. Bute’s cancer is in remission, but could make an aggressive return at any time.…

by Tim Post

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December 30, 2011 3:41 AM

Notes in the Margins: Women back to school, forgiving student loans and hip hop higher ed

Instead of Work, Younger Women Head to School There are now — for the first time in three decades — more young women in school than in the work force. (The New York Times) Should Student Loans be Dischargeable in Bankruptcy? Will legislative attempts to ease students’ debt burden work, or is a bigger fix needed?…

by Tim Post

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