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How St. Cloud State is tackling student drinking

How St. Cloud State is tackling student drinking

St. Cloud State, a school that has made this blog’s party coverage, has drawn some positive attention from Campus Safety magazine for its efforts to curb student drinking: … St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minn., has battled its reputation as a party school through the development of a collaborative program between the school…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why Midwesterners are finally warming to the gap year before college

“Gap-year” consultant Holly Bull tells the Pioneer Press how she counters parents’ concerns about allowing their high-school-grad children to take a year off before going to college: “I ask them: ‘Remember when you were 18? Wouldn’t you have wanted to have taken the time to explore?’ Now is the perfect time to do it because…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in Margins: Merit awards, dwindling grads and the 17th century

Admission dean pulls back curtain on merit aid The admission dean at University of Rochester pen an unusually candid list of 12 “steps that mattered” in merit awards at his school this year, and the approximate dollar value of each factor in shaping the merit award. (The Washington Post) Biddy Martin Wants To Use Tuition Hike…
by Alex Friedrich

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Details on the U's voluntary leaves of absence

Yesterday afternoon I posted that the University of Minnesota is offering voluntary leaves of absence to help cope with the state shutdown. I called in for details, and today the U’s VP for human resources, Kathy Brown, ended up talking to MPR colleague Tim Post. This is apparently a narrowly tailored program designed to help…
by Alex Friedrich

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Site: Carleton one of the friendliest campuses

Site: Carleton one of the friendliest campuses

Man, Northfield must just bring out the warm fuzzies in everyone there. We’ve seen how St. Olaf is apparently among the friendliest colleges for junior faculty. Now Carleton across town has made The Huffington Post’s list of friendliest colleges. Here’s what the site has to say: Over the years, Carleton students have created a laundry…
by Alex Friedrich

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How med students are mistreated at the U

“It’s a culture that values performance and punishes poor performance with personal humiliation.” — Chris Thompson, a fourth-year University of Minnesota medical student on the culture of harassment of students at the U’s medical school. In a recent survey, 14.5% of students there reported they’d been mistreated — a figure that’s actually below the national…
by Alex Friedrich

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What Chancellor Rosenstone's face has inspired

“They’re a great likeness of me. Or should I say, they’re a great caricature?” — Incoming Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system Chancellor Steven Rosenstone to Lake Superior College ceramics instructor Dorian Beaulieu and his students, who were making coffee mugs with designed by a photo of Rosenstone. Rosenstone toured the college June 28.…
by Alex Friedrich

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Mac prez: Norquist anti-tax pledge undemocratic

Macalester College President Brian Rosenberg, who occasionally comments on higher-ed issues in The Huffington Post, strays from matters academic and goes after Grover Norquist and the anti-tax pledge of his Americans for Tax Reform, which has been signed by many Repubican candidates for both state and national office: How prudent is it to take an…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Tenure, electric cars and a killer's suspension

College releases AZ suspect’s suspension records The community college that the Tucson shooting rampage suspect had attended released records Tuesday detailing a meeting over his suspension from the school just three months before the attack. (Associated Press via The Boston Globe) Vocationalism, Academic Freedom and Tenure The author of a recently published book takes the…
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Univ. of Minn. offering leaves of absence

Univ. of Minn. offering leaves of absence

The U is apparently instituting a voluntary leave of absence program to free up money during the state shutdown. I’ve got calls in to get details on this. For now, here are some details from what appears to be the application form: Due to the temporary suspension of funding caused by a potential or actual…
by Alex Friedrich

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