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On Campus Blog

Why college isn't everyone's path to success

Sean Kershaw and Stacy Becker of the Citizens League in St. Paul write in the Star Tribune that whether students should go to college is a much more complicated issue than society makes it out to be: “Rather than pound, pound, pound into their heads “Go to college, you’ll earn more,” we owe them a more…
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Notes in the Margins: Asians, diversity and female business school deans

Private-College Presidents Getting Higher Salaries The median compensation — including salary and benefits — was $385,909, a 2.2 percent increase from the previous year. The median base salary increased by 2.8 percent to $294,489. (The New York Times) B-School Leadership Through a Different Lens Two women are shattering a glass ceiling for business school deans. (U.S. News…
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What the U is telling its leadership about transfers

Here’s a memo that the University of Minnesota has sent out to “university leadership” regarding its recent decision to cut back a little on the number of transfer students it will be accepting. Looks like Fox 21 News has picked up the story in Duluth.
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Some unusual St. Olaf College student organizations

Some unusual St. Olaf College student organizations

Students kept telling me yesterday how many clubs St. Olaf has — to the point where some get overwhelmed with juggling their academic and extracurricular lives. Below are just a few that I don’t remember seeing when I was in college — and neither did Carolina Astrain, our newsroom coordinator, who is a 2010 graduate…
by Alex Friedrich

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The holiday surpise that the Carlson School got

It might not be a true flash mob — more of a “smart mob” — but this Carlson School of Management performance is a nice little vid. Pretty slick. Check out the security officer at the 2:20 mark.
by Alex Friedrich

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Keillor is moving his book store to Macalester

Keillor is moving his book store to Macalester

“It will give people at Macalester a chance to walk into an establishment where you can just walk around and look at things, you don’t really need to buy anything. … You walk into a bookstore and you look around at books and here, for sale, all around you, is American enterprise, intellectual enterprise and…
by Alex Friedrich

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A St. Olaf class that Johnny Depp would love

A St. Olaf class that Johnny Depp would love

You’ve gotta love liberal arts colleges for some of the quirky classes they offer. The title of this St. Olaf course sounds like it’ll make history sexy: History 140 / Pirates of the Caribbean. Yesterday during my visit to the college, I dropped in on the class, taught by Steve Hahn, a professor specializing in…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Video games, same-sex dorms and the Confederate flag

Catholic University’s same-sex dorms deemed legal Earlier this year, Catholic University President John Garvey began to banish co-ed dorms and reinstitute the old-school practice of housing women and men in separate buildings. Soon after, George Washington University law professor John F. Banzhaf III challenged the legality of that decision and filed a discrimination complaint with the D.C. Office of Human Rights. (The…
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How I stopped worrying and learned to love St. Olaf's lutefisk

How I stopped worrying and learned to love St. Olaf's lutefisk

This is it. After hearing how gross it is for the past seven years, I’m about to try lutefisk. I’m at St. Olaf College’s grand meal, the one it serves in Stav Dining Hall for its annual Christmas Festival. The place is packed and noisy, as is Buntrock Commons, the building in which it’s located.…
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