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House joins Senate in higher-ed bill, cloning amendment

Hours after the Senate passed its higher-education bill this afternoon — which Democrats called the deepest higher-ed cuts in the history of the state — the House pushed through its own bill, and added a twist or two that left the DFL howling. The bill, passed 69-60 largely along party lines, cut higher ed spending…
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Senate passes higher-ed bill with cloning amendment

The Minnesota Senate passed its omnibus higher education bill today, which would hit colleges and universities with double-digit budget cuts and tuition caps, and ban state and federal funds from being used in human cloning research. The bill, which passed on a 37-27 vote, would cut state funding for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities…
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Higher-ed commish: Take out cloning amendment

Minnesota Higher Education Commissioner Sheila Wright has written a letter to Michelle Fischbach (R-Paynesville), chairwoman of the Senate higher education committee. She makes the usual arguments against funding cuts, but also addresses the human cloning amendment: “SF924 contains policy provisions that should be dealt with separately. Language regarding human cloning is moving in a separate…
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St. Thomas profs want their pay system reformed

Ann Johnson, chair of the University of St. Thomas psychology department, tells TommieMedia about professors’ dissatisfaction with the university’s faculty compensation system: “I would like to see a really sustained and open discussion about merit pay, because there are a lot of differences in opinion about it. St. Thomas has been very much driven by…
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The higher-ed bill that the House will fight over

The higher-ed bill that the House will fight over

With debate on the Minnesota House higher education omnibus bill looming today, higher-ed committee Chairman Bud Nornes (R-Fergus Falls) painted a sobering, if not gloomy picture of what lies ahead. “I can’t tell you anyone is happy about it,” he told reporters in the House gallery this morning, “but that’s what we have to deal…
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Video: U of Minnesota asks supporters to sound off on higher-ed cuts

Video: U of Minnesota asks supporters to sound off on higher-ed cuts

The legislature is talking big cuts, and the University of Minnesota is responding with this video: Ten years ago I was 11, and the U received more state funding than it does now. Any more cuts and all of our educations will suffer. Why would legislators consider this move? Because they haven’t yet heard your…
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Notes in the Margins: Free food, Jewish students and the public university

Ex-student pleads guilty in Va. college shooting A former college student upset about his failing math grade pleaded guilty Monday to attempted murder for shooting at his professor in a community-college classroom. (Associated Press via The Boston Globe) Does It Matter Where You Go To College? There’s not much evidence that one elite university is…
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Why parents should avoid March Madness

Why parents should avoid March Madness

In explaining why parents should not flip out over college admissions — which has its infamous waiting period this month — columnist George Will recalls what an admissions consultant told a room full of Ivy-League-obsessed parents: “There are 36,000 high schools in this country. That means there are at least 36,000 valedictorians. They can’t all…
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Capella CEO earns $3.85 million amid job cuts

Capella paid its CEO, Kevin Gilligan, $3.85 million last year — a 64 percent increase from his pay in 2009, which happened to be his first year on the job, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal reports. The news comes a month after Capella announced it was shedding 125 non-faculty positions because of “challenging conditions” —…
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How the U of Minnesota's image has deteriorated

How the U of Minnesota's image has deteriorated

MPR Photo / Alex Friedrich Not what it used to be? University of Minnesota associate professor Giancarlo Casale writes about how the perception of the U has slipped among academics over the years, due largely to decreased state funding — and why funding needs to increase. “You know,” (my colleague from Ohio) said, “at that…
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