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Notes in the Margins: Tuition, the SAT and the QR code

A cattle-ranch college for future Yalies goes co-ed Deep Springs College, a small and storied institution of higher learning set on a cattle ranch in California, is going co-ed. Founded in 1917, Deep Springs is a highly selective two-year college unlike any other: it enrolls just 26 students, all men, for a two-year regimen of study and toil. Most…
by Alex Friedrich

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How to grade a college student whose English skills aren't native

How to grade a college student whose English skills aren't native

At last week’s St. Mary’s conference on how to better handle college students who speak English as a second language, one business instructor in the audience asked a classic question: “I have some of these students, and they show amazing determination. They are highly intelligent people, and there’s a lot of respect for them. But…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why freshman writing courses are a bear for ESL students

“Many first-year writing classes are taught by graduate students, 90 percent of them English literature graduate students who have no experience in teaching English as a second language.” — ESL expert Dana Ferris at a recent St. Mary’s University conference on handling college students whose native language is not English.
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Myths and tips on getting a good, affordable education

Myths and tips on getting a good, affordable education

If you missed MPR’s Bright Ideas forum last night on how to get a good, affordable education – or my tweets on it — I’ve got a few highlights for you. The host, Stephen Smith of American RadioWorks, the documentary arm of MPR’s parent company, chatted with Carol Stack, a former Macalester and Augsburg admissions…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why applicants don't really want to use Facebook for college searches

Thought this generation of college applicants was all about social media? Think again, suggests a New York Times post on a session on students, technology and the college admissions process: “Colleges say, ‘Like us on Facebook’ — but that’s my personal time, I’d rather not,” one high school senior said. “I’d like to find a…
by Alex Friedrich

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What follows the annual Tommie-Johnnie exhibition of bawdy T-shirts

What follows the annual Tommie-Johnnie exhibition of bawdy T-shirts

Fall football’s Tommie-Johnnie obnoxious T-shirt battle is underway, and apparently the standards of decency are once again under siege. St. Thomas’ VP for student affairs, Jane Canney, tells TommieMedia what follows the football game and parade of raunch: “What happens afterwards is we get calls; we get letters from people who are mortified that they…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Assessment, grad rates and trading commodities

Where community colleges go wrong If the nation is going to make any headway in helping more students graduate from college, it will have to completely overhaul the way students enrolling in nonselective colleges are tested for college readiness, and make fundamental changes in how colleges use that information to help students earn degrees. (The Washington…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why ESL students aren't exactly what you think they are

I was out of commission part of Friday as well as Monday, so I didn’t finish my posting of the conference at St. Mary’s University in Minneapolis on how to better handle students who speak English as a second language (ESL). I’ll continue that coverage today and tomorrow. Here’s an interesting term for the students…
by Alex Friedrich

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