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On Campus Blog

Contract for MnSCU Chancellor Steven Rosenstone

Here’s the three-year contract for MnSCU Chancellor-Elect Steven Rosenstone for you to check out. It begins Aug. 1. Highlights are below, then comes the original document. Here are what the highlights seem to be: $360,000 base pay; Up to $50,000 in annual performance pay; Up to $3,000-per-month housing allowance; $1,000-per-month transportation and “communication” allowance; $833-per-month…
by Alex Friedrich

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Colleges courting students ahead of May 1 commitment deadline

If you’ve got a college-bound high schooler in the house, I bet your phone has been ringing off the hook lately.  That’s because colleges are pushing hard to get students they’ve accepted to follow through and enroll. It turns out schools are getting more aggressive as they court students.  Here’s the story I did for…
by Tim Post

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MSU-Mankato prez won't approve student-endorsed athletic fee increase

MSU-Mankato prez won't approve student-endorsed athletic fee increase

For those of you keeping up with the student-fee-hike-for-athletics situation at Minnesota State University -Mankato, there’s an interesting twist. Last week, Minnesota State University – Mankato students voted in a referendum to raise their student fees by 75 cents a credit (up to $11.25 a semester) to save four sports from budget-related elimination: men’s swimming, women’s…
by Alex Friedrich

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How to rein in your child's race to nowhere

Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews recalls one father’s solution to reducing the amount of stress in the life of his overachieving college-bound child: Parents such as that father I knew could limit the number of advanced courses, impose bedtimes and cure stress and exhaustion all by himself if he made one crucial adjustment. “It’s…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Green colleges, GPA context and tenure revision

UNC adds context to GPAs to combat grade inflation A 3.1 in one college course is not the same as a 3.1 in another. Subject matters range in difficulty, as do the grading styles of professors. But how does an employer know the difference? (The Washington Post) College hopefuls look for green universities More applicants…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why four MnSCU college presidents?

The appointment of four college presidents in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system this afternoon might not be unusual, but it’s a reminder that the Boomer generation is retiring — and their replacements face the challenges of a system stretched for money. The new chiefs: Saint Paul College: Rassoul Dastmozd, vice president of…
by Alex Friedrich

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New MnSCU chancellor to make $360,000 base

Was listening into the MnSCU board meeting and got this: MnSCU Chancellor-elect Steven Rosenstone’s contract will be the same as the current chancellor’s: $360,000 base salary with up to $50,000 in “performance achievement” pay. There are other “minor” changes, the board says. Will post the contract when I get it. Some stats given at the…
by Alex Friedrich

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MnSCU appoints Saint Paul, Century, SW MN, Anoka chiefs

Working on related stuff, so for now I’ve got this: This afternoon the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system Board of Trustees appointed these new presidents: Saint Paul College: Rassoul Dastmozd, vice president of instruction at Clark College in Washington; Century College: Ron Anderson, vice president of academic affairs at Century College. Anoka-Ramsey Community…
by Alex Friedrich

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Educators are getting social

Educators are getting social

In checking out the other blogs in the Argo network (of which On Campus is a part), ran across this item at Mind/Shift on how college educators are using social media.
by Bill Wareham

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What's outside your classroom and campus office

What's outside your classroom and campus office

Got this off Twitpic/Twitter. I feel like resurrecting my slideshow  of winter campus shots.
by Alex Friedrich

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