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On Campus Blog

A Kaler management tool?

A Kaler management tool?

Morning edition producer Curtis Gilbert wondered aloud today about that thing University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler was seen wielding at his inauguration yesterday. All I knew (thanks to Tim Post’s story) was that it’s called a mace, so to satisfy Curtis’s (and now my own) curiosity, I did a search. Here’s some of what…
by Bill Wareham

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How bad is the English in this college essay, really?

Here’s an e-mail that Dana Ferris, an expert in teaching English as a second language, once received from an engineering professor who was peeved about the writing ability of one of his foreign-born engineering students: “I have a student from Turkey. She speaks English beautifully and writes well except for one thing: Turkish has no articles…
by Alex Friedrich

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How colleges can better educate non-native English speakers

I’m here at the St. Mary’s University campus for a seminar on how colleges can better educate and support the growing number of students whose native language is not English. The speakers are starting in just a minute, so here’s a little background for now: 1 in 5 Minnesota College Students Will Call English Their…
by Alex Friedrich

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How Anoka-Ramsey promotes Transfer Week

How Anoka-Ramsey promotes Transfer Week

By flash mob, of course (?) (Or is it a smart mob? I can’t keep up with all these new terms.) The mob was organized by the college’s advising team, and a reader kgreg007 sent this video to me on Twitter.
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Vets, helicopter parents and ditching the car

A Manual for ‘Helicopter Parents’ to Land Their Aircraft Having worked closely over the past four years with some parents who have tended to get a bit overinvolved, my suspicion is that the great majority are well-intentioned. I imagine it’s not easy transitioning from guiding a child through elementary, middle and high school to what’s required…
by Alex Friedrich

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What two people said about Art Institutes International MN

Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson told me she didn’t know for sure how many cases were involved in the lawsuit her office filed against Education Management Corporation or how many people were affected. She did say, however, that the state is still receiving complaints and looking into them. With her were two people who suggested…
by Alex Friedrich

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What Argosy, Art Institutes Intl. have to say about MN lawsuit

Just got this from the Pittsburgh-based Education Management Corporation, the parent company of Argosy University in Eagan and Art Institutes International in Minneapolis. It’s the company’s reaction to the lawsuit announced today by the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office. The main argument is in bold. After that is a company memo on the law itself: “Education…
by Alex Friedrich

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State attorney general sues Argosy and Art Institutes International

This just in from the state attorney general: ATTORNEY GENERAL LORI SWANSON BRINGS LAWSUIT TO RECOVER TAXPAYER-FINANCED STUDENT FINANCIAL AID PAID TO TWO FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES IN MINNESOTA Swanson Issues Alert to Caution Students and Parents About Potential Traps               Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson today filed a lawsuit against Education Management Corporation (“EMC”), the…
by Alex Friedrich

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Two ways to look at the St. Thomas neighborhood party debate

Two ways to look at the St. Thomas neighborhood party debate

A TommieMedia article on a student-housing moratorium in St. Paul has a couple of interesting quotations showing the two sides of the neighbors-vs.-party-animals debate that’s been going on in the area around the University of St. Thomas. Junior Leah Olson tells the news service why homeowners living near the campus need to just suck it…
by Alex Friedrich

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