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Notes in the Margins: Internees, immersion and the elite

Chinese Rush to U.S. Colleges Reveals Predatory Fees for Recruits More than 400 agencies licensed by the Chinese government, and many others that aren’t, charge thousands of dollars to help fill out applications, ghost-write essays and arrange visas for Chinese students.These agents also often misrepresent or conceal their U.S. affiliations. (Bloomberg via University Business) Japanese…
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Wisconsin: Our students should pay the reciprocity difference

Wisconsin: Our students should pay the reciprocity difference

This just in from the Associated Press: Wisconsin lawmakers agree to change Minnesota tuition deal Wisconsin college students will have to pay more to attend the University of Minnesota under a change approved by the Wisconsin Legislature’s budget committee. Currently, Wisconsin makes up the difference between the resident tuition rate for a Wisconsin student to…
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Klobuchar calls for more vocational-technical education

Klobuchar calls for more vocational-technical education

Good timing, I suppose: U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar writes in the Pioneer Press that the U.S. needs a revival of vocational-technical education for the good of both students and American business. And timely enough, she mentions the Pathways to Prosperity report that I’ve been writing about since last week. Among the things she says need…
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Governor rejects higher-education bill

Just got this from the governor’s office. Above is the letter regarding Dayton’s veto of the higher-ed bill, which he said led to the “deepest cuts to higher education in our state’s history.” Update: Quick summary of topics: Budget cuts. They’re “far too extreme,” and would lead to a lower-quality work force for Minnesota’s employers.…
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MCTC still eyeing remodeling plans despite cash crunch

MCTC still eyeing remodeling plans despite cash crunch

Even though funding is shaky, Minneapolis Community & Technical College is searching for a construction manager to oversee a proposed $9.75 million remodeling of five floors of its 31-year-old  “T Building” (Technical Building) downtown, Finance & Commerce reports. The project would upgrade instructional space for workforce programs. The paper gives more detail: More specifically, the…
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How 3 MN execs see the state of vo-tech education

How 3 MN execs see the state of vo-tech education

I’ve been covering efforts by Bill Symonds of Harvard to boost Minnesota’s vocational-technical education program and give high-school grads a practical alternative to a four-year degree. He has studied the issue and produced a report that called for, among other things, a greater role for businesses. Last week, he gathered three businessmen and two education…
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What one senator doesn't like about a for-profit TV ad

What one senator doesn't like about a for-profit TV ad

http://youtu.be/OISn3TXFxlI Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), a critic of many for-profit colleges, seems to have a problem with the TV commercial above, The Hill reports: “The ad that just really troubles me shows a lovely young woman who says you can go to college in your pajamas. You don’t even have to get out of bed…
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Why that college-major salary study doesn't tell all

Time magazine tells humanities supporters not to be too pessimistic about the Georgetown study of highest-earning majors: Before switching majors or pushing your child into petroleum engineering (the highest-earning major, with a median salary of $120K), however, make note of one flaw in the Georgetown study. The median salaries in the report do not factor…
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Notes in the Margins: Discounting, counseling and big-money majors

Mental Health Screenings At Colleges Go High-Tech To help deal with the high demand for counseling, more campus centers are using computerized questionnaires, some that generate color-coded charts, to help them flag a serious problem more quickly than traditional paper-and-pencil evaluations. Though they stress that these evaluations are not a replacement for in-depth questioning or counseling,…
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Why it's hard for MN industry to find qualified workers

Dan Meyer, president of International Precision Machining in Waite Park, told a gathering of college-, state and business officials about the St. Cloud area’s continuous problem of finding qualified young workers for its industry — and one possible cause: “One of the challenges we see in precision manufacturing as time has gone on, is that…
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