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Nice Ride coming to St. Paul college campuses

Nice Ride coming to St. Paul college campuses

Students at the St. Paul campuses of the University of St. Thomas, Macalester College, Hamline and Concordia universities will soon have access to the Nice Ride bike rental system, now that the program is spreading from Minneapolis to St. Paul this summer, my old colleague Fred Melo at the Pioneer Press reports. (Nice Ride also…
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Why are so many students still failing online?

Why are so many students still failing online?

Rob Jenkins, associate professor of English at Georgia Perimeter College, writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education that it’s time colleges really analyze the ups and downs of online education — and not just blindly use online courses as a cash cow. Considering the “abysmal” success rate of such courses, he writes, something is way…
by Alex Friedrich

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Daily: Bruininks' legislative efforts too little, too late

Daily: Bruininks' legislative efforts too little, too late

Just as MnSCU Chancellor James McCormick has been hit by a newspaper editorial on his way out, so has University of Minnesota President Robert Bruininks — but he’s got the student paper after him. The Minnesota Daily says he accepted years of tuition cuts too readily, and that his recent “I’m hot as hell about…
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Moving home: When college grads face uncertain futures

Moving home: When college grads face uncertain futures

In it’s big piece, “Moving Home: When College Grads Face Uncertain Futures,” The Huffington Post looks at college grads and what they’re going through to cope with crushing debt and a poor job market. It profiles art history grad Sabrina Malik, who through a year and a half of futile searching, has been doing odd…
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Notes in the Margins: Entrepreneurs, for-profit enrollment and religion

$100,000 To Forgo College? The Thiel Foundation today named the first winners of its controversial “20 Under 20” fellowship program, which hands young people $100,000 to pursue entrepreneurial ideas rather than a university education. It’s a limited program designed to showcase a bigger — and for many, a troubling — idea: That higher education is…
by Alex Friedrich

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Other higher-education legislation in Minnesota

In the lull after Dayton’s veto of the higher-education bill, I thought I’d give you the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) roundup of other legislation that would affect the system. You can find this on MnSCU’s nifty Friends Action Network blog (bold type mine): Lawmakers passed some legislation that affects the Minnesota State Colleges…
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How problematic is stadium drinking?

How problematic is stadium drinking?

The bill that would have allowed the U to sell alcohol in selected seats has essentially died, since it was not taken up by the Senate higher-education committee. But I thought of it and the whole University of Minnesota’s stadium-alcohol-sales flap when I read this Chicago Sun-Times piece on the prevalence of problem drunks —…
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Study: A fifth of faculty does most of the (teaching) work

Just putting this out there. The Washington Post writes about a recent report by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, run by libertarian/conservative Richard Vedder — a controversial figure among academics. Post writer Daniel de Vise says this one’s sure to rile them up: Twenty percent of faculty at the University of Texas-Austin teach…
by Alex Friedrich

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St. John's President Koopmann stepping down next year

This just in from St. John’s University: May 25, 2011 Dear Members of the Saint John’s and Saint Benedict’s Communities, With the close of this academic year, I will have completed my second year as president of Saint John’s University and one additional year remains on my three-year appointment.  After much reflection, I have decided…
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Winona paper, student leader clash over MnSCU chief

Winona paper, student leader clash over MnSCU chief

Has the battle begun over the legacy of outgoing Chancellor James McCormick of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system? In its May 14 editorial, “MnSCU’s bureaucratic addiction is shameful,” the Winona Daily News portrayed McCormick as a bureaucrat intent on protecting from scrutiny the bloated MnSCU empire he has created — an empire whose…
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