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The changes that M State will go through

“We’re a college here in Moorhead that has gone through transition and has learned to adapt and take on new challenges.” — John Centko, dean of academic affairs for the Moorhead campus of Minnesota State Community and Technical College, on how life will be at “M-State” in the coming months of change. President Ann Valentine…
by Alex Friedrich

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Concordia's Kernel Cobb: Top 10 strangest mascots

Concordia's Kernel Cobb: Top 10 strangest mascots

Cobbers take note: Forget athletic rankings. Your BMOC been rated one of Her Campus’ Top 10 Strangest College Mascots, according to The Huffington Post. Here’s what the site has to say about Kernel Cobb at Concordia College in Moorhead: Concordia College gives several different explanations for a cobber; in Yiddish, a cobber is a friend.…
by Alex Friedrich

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Mac prez: Why Dickens is a great preparation for life

Mac prez: Why Dickens is a great preparation for life

ickna via Flickr “Are there no prisons for dropouts? Are there no workhouses?” Macalester College President Brian Rosenberg, a former scholar of Victorian literature, explains in The Huffington Post why everything he needs to know about current problems he has already read in Charles Dickens’ works. Here’s just one: Our ongoing, systematic disinvestment in the…
by Alex Friedrich

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What's new at the U

What's new at the U

School might be out for the summer, but things are still happening at the U of M! In “This Week @Minnesota” for the week of May 16-20, we look at two on-campus events for K-12 students in Minnesota – “Energy and U” and “World Languages Day.” We also hear highlights from the Carlson School commencement…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Dorm pets, nerd-school jocks and the rapture

Prepare to Lose to a Nerd School Don’t look now, college-sports behemoths, but in some of the lower-profile NCAA sports like tennis, swimming and lacrosse, there’s an unlikely new force welling up to give you a run for your money: those precious liberal-arts colleges that don’t offer athletic scholarships. Last month, the baseball team from…
by Alex Friedrich

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PoliGraph weighs in on the Zellers pay flap

For a little history on faculty pay in Minnesota, check out PoliGraph’s look at Rep. Kurt Zellers’ (R-Maple Grove) claim that professors were enjoying pay raises of 20-30 percent. Verdict: In some instances, college faculty saw pay increases in the last couple of years. But the majority of Minnesota’s public school professors have been working…
by Alex Friedrich

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How we could revitalize vocational education in Minnesota

You may have noticed from a few posts I’ve made that I’ve been hanging out this week at conference on the need for more vocational-technical education — a gathering I referred to in a post a few weeks ago. Bill Symonds of Harvard — who’s also a Minnesota native — brought about 200 officials from…
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How the Tommie camera owner was found

Looks like the woman who found the camera with pictures linked to the University of St. Thomas has finally found the owners. As reported before, Tami Thye-Harold of Colorado found a camera in a seat on a United Airlines plane and tried for months to track down its owners. The camera contained photos of two…
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Have we fallen into the Twitter trap?

Have we fallen into the Twitter trap?

Brajeshwar via Flickr A little hard to focus, eh? New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller wonders whether social media and other technology have eroded our capacity to remember, analyze information — and just contemplate: My father, who was trained in engineering at M.I.T. in the slide-rule era, often lamented the way the pocket calculator,…
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Bruininks: Here's the U's real faculty-staff pay story

Bruininks: Here's the U's real faculty-staff pay story

MPR Photo/Nikki Tundel We’ve taken our pay hits University of Minnesota President Robert Bruininks has jumped in on the Zellers flap, saying that salary freezes have been the norm — not 20-30 percent pay raises. In a commentary for MPR, he lists several cost-cutting measures the U has already taken, and mentions what’s coming up…
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