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How much foreign students contribute to the state economy

Minnesota’s 12,000 foreign students and their families contribute a net of $302.5 million to the state economy during the 2010-11 year, according to a report announced today by the National Association of Foreign Student Educators. The top three institutions, according to money generated: University of Minnesota – Twin Cities: $120 million St. Cloud State University:…
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Notes in the Margins: Foreign students, Penn State and supporting the elite

Average Taxpayers Are Heavily Supporting Elite Colleges An October study by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) entitled “Cheap for Whom?” showed one way that  the university system is rigged in favor of the rich. (Minding the Campus) Addressing The Shortage Of Women In Silicon Valley It’s no secret that beginning in middle school, young women often lose interest…
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What the U's McMaster said about the cutback in transfer students

What the U's McMaster said about the cutback in transfer students

I spoke yesterday with Bob McMaster, the University of Minnesota’s dean of undergraduate education, about the decision to cut back a little on the number of transfer students the U will accept in coming years. I had raised the question in a previous post about what that means for access for community college students as…
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Why college sports reform would be limited

Public Insight Network member Lisa Nordeen, a former athlete and coach as well as Minnesota professor and sport sociologist with extensive Division I experience, said calls for reform can only go so far: Sure, reform is needed. However, college athletics has become so imbedded within our society that it would be next to impossible to…
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Should college sports be broken off into separate businesses?

Should college sports be broken off into separate businesses?

The Public Insight Network query on the meaning behind the Penn State scandal has brought out a lot of folks who think college sports have grown too big and need to be separated from the schools themselves. (One could argue that wouldn’t solve the actual problem, but would remove that section of it from higher…
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Notes in the Margins: Thanksgiving, free education and the innovation killer

College Tuition is the Innovation-Killer It’s getting to a point where no graduate of a four-year college or graduate degree program can go out on their own and start their business because they have this incredible weight, this Albatross around their neck called student loan debt. (BigThink) New holiday tradition: Students spending Thanksgiving on campus It…
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What a retired professor says about the Penn State case

What a retired professor says about the Penn State case

The responses to our Public Insight Network query on the Penn State child sex-abuse scandal are starting to roll in. John Sievert of Lakeland writes that the case: “… says that the money has become too important – a case of the tail wagging the dog. Joe Paterno is a decent and honorable man and…
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So what does the Penn State scandal mean?

So what does the Penn State scandal mean?

News of the Pennsylvania State University child sex-abuse scandal is all over the news today. To what extent is what’s happening on the Penn State campus reflective of American higher education and how it handles big-time college sports? We’ve asked folks in our Public Insight Network to give us their perspectives, and we’d love to…
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How St. Cloud State's reorganization is being sold to students

How St. Cloud State's reorganization is being sold to students

St. Cloud State University is marketing (or rebranding?) its recent academic reorganization with a theme that could be described as a helicopter parent’s dream: It’s all about me. Watch the video above and read here the university’s schtick on what’s going on.  
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What Macalester's president learned from Steve Jobs' biography

Macalester College President Brian Rosenberg explains in The Huffington Post one of three lessons that higher education needs to take from the life of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs: One of higher education’s great weaknesses is the inability to decide what not to do. We see this played out in many ways: on a curricular level, where the proliferation of…
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