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Winona State may drop Zipcar program

Winona State may drop Zipcar program

akseabird via Flickr Maybe not for much longer Winona State University may be dropping its Zipcar car rental program because not enough people have been using it, Winona 360 reports. The program seems to be working at the University of Minnesota, the article states, but Winona officials seem puzzled about the lack of ridership considering…
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Off to the Capitol: Higher-ed conference committee

Off to the Capitol: Higher-ed conference committee

Committee members from the Minnesota House and Senate will be meeting today to start ironing out differences between the House and Senate bills on higher education. Here’s a side-by-side layout of the bills. (Just the text — no analysis.)
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Crookston fire reportedly kills half a dozen animals

Caught this on MPR’s Minnesota Today site: A fire broke out early Wednesday afternoon in the sheep facility on the University of Minnesota, Crookston campus. The smoke was apparently too much for some of the lambs and possibly other sheep, too, as bystanders reported that some animals perished. Short article, but you can read it…
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Video: What a singer will do to get into college

Video: What a singer will do to get into college

Wait-listed at Harvard, Grace Oberhofer of Tacoma sings her plea to the admissions staff. An excerpt: Harvard you mean the world to me On John Harvard’s statue I’d never pee Harvard I utter my primal scream Let me in to your community I wonder whether admissions folks see this sort of thing as a smart…
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Notes in the Margins: Greece, Oxford and Jerry Falwell Jr.

Falwell’s Liberty University blocks campus access to newspaper Web site For at least one day last week, Liberty University administrators blocked campus access to the Web site of Lynchburg’s News & Advocate. According to reports, the site was blocked after the newspaper ran a story about the amount of federal student aid the school receives. (The…
by Alex Friedrich

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Bruininks reacts to federal budget bill

Got this from the University of Minnesota this afternoon. Read this piece for context/details of the bill. The following is a statement from University of Minnesota President Robert H. Bruininks regarding the federal budget bill: “It is a relief to see that Congressional leaders and the president were able to prioritize Pell grants and research…
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Turkish Coalition: Lawsuit dismissal threatens academic freedom

David Saltzman and Bruce Fein of the Turkish American Legal Defense Fund argue in the Minnesota Daily what a court’s recent dismissal of the lawsuit over the University’s “blacklisting” of the coalition’s Web site will lead to: We think this will lead to state universities being able to prohibit student research of authors or viewpoints…
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Some follow-up comments from Gov. Dayton

Some follow-up comments from Gov. Dayton

Gov. Mark Dayton gave the news media a few minutes for questions after the roundtable discussion. He wouldn’t say what he would hold firm on in his higher-ed budget bill, or what he was willing to compromise on. (The GOP is in full control of the conference committee that will produce the legislature’s higher-ed finance…
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Anoka presidential candidates had problematic backgrounds

Looks like Anoka-Ramsey Community College and Anoka Technical College attracted some candidates in its $62,000 scrapped presidential search that MnSCU could have found potentially problematic. Check out these newspaper articles on two of the semifinalists: Ronald Erickson, president of Hocking College: A mess at Hocking College President might quit unless board of trustees stops its…
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