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Notes in the Margins: Languages, pay disparities and grad rates

MATC officials downplay difference in pay for teaching the same courses Some full-time faculty at Madison Area Technical College earned almost twice as much as part-time faculty for teaching the same course. The issue of part-time faculty pay has been controversial at the college, as leaders of the Part-Time Teachers’ Union charge there’s too wide…
by Alex Friedrich

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Senate bill leaves stadium alcohol policy up to regents

Senate bill leaves stadium alcohol policy up to regents

This from the Associated Press, and the proposed legislation comes after that. (MPR’s Tim Post will be following up on the story, though, so tune in for more. I’ll put up any updates that I get from him.) Lawmaker serves up new Mpls. stadium booze bill Minnesota lawmakers are coping with their three-year hangover: Whether…
by Alex Friedrich

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Inver Hills to MIT, Purdue: Bring it on

Inver Hills to MIT, Purdue: Bring it on

More than a dozen Inver Hills Community College students are set to compete against the likes of MIT and Purdue in NASA’s rocket competition for colleges and universities in Alabama next week. Inver Hills will be the only Minnesota school — and one of only two community colleges — to attend the competition this year.…
by Alex Friedrich

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Rainy River provost: No talk of closure so far

Rainy River provost: No talk of closure so far

Listening to State Rep. Tom Rukavina (DFL-Virginia) over the past few higher-ed budget hearings, you might think Rainy River Community College in International Falls was on the brink of closure. He has said that proposed legislative cuts would slash more than $2,100 from the college, which has only about 342 students (full- and part-time). House…
by Alex Friedrich

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Ries named president of Concordia – St. Paul

Ries named president of Concordia – St. Paul

The Rev. Tom Ries has been named president of Concordia University in St. Paul, and is expected to start July 1. Ries, a former VP for finance and operations at Concordia and president of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod Foundation, will replace the Rev. Dr. Robert Holst, who is retiring. Ries should make his formal acceptance…
by Alex Friedrich

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Univ. of Minnesota, Mac top schools for bicyclists

Univ. of Minnesota, Mac top schools for bicyclists

So are there a lot of bicyclists at the University of Minnesota and Macalester College? Should be, since the League of American Bicyclists has ranked the U 9th most bike-friendly campus in the U.S., and Mac has earned an honorable mention. It’s the first year of the rankings, and you can view the announcement here…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Pell cuts, college vouchers and immigration

Pell cuts would come late in the admissions game Quite apart from the merits of cutting Pell or not cutting Pell, there is an important question of timing. If Congress enacts Pell cuts now, colleges will have to send out another round of letters with new, lower aid figures at the very end of the admission…
by Alex Friedrich

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House's all-GOP conference commitee members

The House has chosen its higher-ed conference committee members — all Republican: Rep. Bud Nornes, R-Fergus Falls; Rep. Bob Dettmer, R-Forest Lake; Rep. Kurt Daudt, R-Crown; Rep. Pat Mazorol, R-Bloomington; and Rep. David Hancock, R-Bemidji. MnSCU’s  Friends Action Network blog says there’s been no word on when it will meet, but that policy bills should…
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Tommies turning down landlines in dorms

Tommies turning down landlines in dorms

“I’ve never used my landline. I tried to set it up, but I couldn’t figure it out. It sits in the corner – it doesn’t do anything.” University of St. Thomas freshman Lauren Mumm telling TommieMedia about the lack of use of the line in her dorm room. The news service reports that more and…
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How will cuts affect Southeast Technical and Rainy River ?

How will cuts affect Southeast Technical and Rainy River ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPQaDf5ewP8 Some reports on how the recent budget-cutting legislation might effect schools is starting to trickle in from various colleges. Here the Red Wing Republican Eagle reports on Minnesota State College-Southeast Technical: The technical college would have to shave off about $1 million from its budget this year and another $1 million next year, Johnson…
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