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Notes in the Margins: STEM grind, Penn State and gender-neutral locker rooms

The Evolution of Higher Education Drawing on his experience as the first chief technology officer at Hewlett-Packard, director of the National Science Foundation’s computer and computation research division, and dean of Georgia Tech’s College of Computing, Richard DeMillo offers an engineer’s view of the challenges facing higher education. (The New York Times) The big college scam The…
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What Minnesota students will do at the Capitol Monday to support the Pell Grant

What Minnesota students will do at the Capitol Monday to support the Pell Grant

Just got this from the state’s two largest student organizations: Minnesota Students to Deliver 3,500 Signature Petition Opposing Pell Grant Cuts Students from the Minnesota State College Student Association (MSCSA) and the Minnesota State University Student Association (MSUSA) collected more than 3,500 signatures in opposition to the U.S. House of Representatives’ proposal to cut the…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why a community-college student is concerned about the U's transfer decision

Why a community-college student is concerned about the U's transfer decision

In light of the post I wrote about U’s decision to scale back a little on the number of transfers it’s accepting, I called up Geoff Dittberner, president of the Minnesota State College Student Association, the organization that represents students at Minnesota’s two-year colleges. Like a lot of his constituents, Dittberner is a student who…
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What Washington Monthly says about the U's transfer decision

Daniel Luzer of Washington Monthly magazine — the publication that last year ranked St. Paul College as the best community college in America — reacts to Tim Post’s article on the University of Minnesota cutting back on transfers: (University of Minnesota Dean of Undergraduate Education Bob) McMaster also told Post that the university needs to…
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Which majors provide the least and most job security?

Which majors provide the least and most job security?

We’ve seen numerous articles about the hottest majors — those most in demand at the moment, or those that pay the best. This interactive Wall Street Journal chart, based on data from a recent Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce report, shows which college majors tend to have the highest and lowest unemployment…
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Crookston paper: Rein in costs — but give more financial aid

The Crookston Daily Times laments the state of student debt nationally and in Minnesota: Three decades ago, a Federal Pell Grant for the full amount easily covered a year’s worth of tuition, books and maybe left you a little extra spending money. Now, it doesn’t even pay a semester’s tuition at most four-year universities. State-provided…
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Notes in the Margins: The F-bomb, higher-ed books and the 99 percent

Our Universities: Why Are They Failing? It’s not hard to see why colleges and universities resist simple evaluations. (The New York Review of Books via NAICU) Not all college students support the 99% Not all college students share the sentiment of their occupying peers. (USA Today) Profile of a Changing Freshman Class We asked colleges and universities…
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Another look at Minnesota student debt data

Powered by Tableau MPR editor Bill Wareham has been playing around with the recent student debt data again and has this chart for your viewing pleasure. (It sometimes helps to look at data from a different angle.)
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Why aren't more students using e-books?

Why aren't more students using e-books?

… Students also share their textbooks because they are so incredibly expensive. And as the digital rights management (DRM) restrictions on e-books makes lending someone your copy difficult if not impossible, students are likely steering away from e-books because they simply don’t work for them — practically or economically. After all, there is little savings…
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Solution to Fighting Sioux controversy drags on

Solution to Fighting Sioux controversy drags on

With North Dakota Board of Higher Education President Grant Shaft having suggested the retirement of the controversial Fighting Sioux college mascot, the University of North Dakota’s president and athletics director says the school would indeed be better off without it. From the Associated Press: (Today) members of the North Dakota House and Senate education committees…
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