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(Update) Gov. Dayton's budget cuts $171 million from higher ed

(Update) Gov. Dayton's budget cuts $171 million from higher ed

Here’s what MPR reporter Tim Post has on the higher-ed portion of the governor’s announced state budget this morning. A fuller, more general story by MPR’s Elizabeth Dunbar follows: Gov. Mark Dayton’s budget cuts $171 million from the state’s higher education budget. Both the University of Minnesota and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system see…
by Alex Friedrich

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U of Minnesota paper: Tuition freeze a bad idea

A tuition freeze looks like it would benefit students at the University of Minnesota, where tuition has doubled since 2001. But this is a simplistic, short-term point of view. The state has already limited the revenues of public universities through insufficient funding. Constricting revenues even further by freezing tuition will hamstring them and lower educational…
by Alex Friedrich

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Capella to fire 125 as stocks fall and enrollment forecast plunges

Just got this from Bloomberg this morning: Capella Education Co., a for-profit online-education company based in Minneapolis, fell as much as 15 percent in Nasdaq Stock Market trading after forecasting a 35 percent decline in new enrollments for the current quarter. Capella also said it will fire 125 non-faculty employees, or 8 percent of its…
by Alex Friedrich

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Winona State University grad: Debt is keeping me from the career I want

Winona State University grad: Debt is keeping me from the career I want

Judging from its latest tweets, it looks like the Minnesota State Student Association is continuing to collect stories on how debt has affected recent grads. This video is the story of Josh Martin (search for his name in the survey results), who got a bachelor’s in English from Winona State University. He’s about $19,000 in…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Conservatives, drugs and the admissions arms race

A College Opts Out of the Admissions Arms Race Ursinus College in Pennsylvania decides it can no longer sustain annual, double-digit growth in applications, and in the process becomes the rare college making it harder to apply. (The New York Times) Obama’s education budget would spare Pell grants, increase spending 11% overall President Obama wants…
by Alex Friedrich

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Minnesota faculty: How budget cuts are hitting students

Minnesota faculty: How budget cuts are hitting students

After putting out the call to faculty asking for insights on how budget cuts have hit their campuses, several have already reported on how they’re affecting students. In a nutshell: Larger classes, less support for students — and possibly lower four-year graduation rates to come. Gary Reineccius, head of the University of Minnesota’s department of…
by Alex Friedrich

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Taking another look at the U of M's presidential search

Internal documents from the University of Minnesota don’t show any violations of the state’s Open Meeting Law during the school’s recent presidential search.  But critics say the U’s board of regents violated the spirit of the law when they met privately with the final candidate for the job. Back in November the University of Minnesota…
by Tim Post

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St. Cloud State sees decrease in sexual assault reports

The number of reported fall semester sexual assaults at St. Cloud State University has dropped from 16 last faull to nine this past semester according to data kept by the university’s Women’s Center. The University Chronicle student paper writes that the statistics for reported assault were lower than most colleges with the same program, but…
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When enthusiasm and odd imagery combine at the U of Minnesota

When enthusiasm and odd imagery combine at the U of Minnesota

“It’s like our minds are wild lions, and this subject is a very unfortunate antelope.” — A master of the English language speaking somewhere in the University of Minnesota’s Bailey Hall. It’s just one of the many odd quotes published in the Minnesota Daily’s “Overheard Around Campus” feature — one of my guilty pleasures. (Careful,…
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Why are Bemidji State and Northwest Technical retooling?

Why are Bemidji State and Northwest Technical retooling?

“We are in kind of uncharted territory, and that’s why campuses are trying to be as careful as they can, and why you do hear words like recalibration, re-engineering and so on. We’re really having to re-imagine the work we’re doing.” Scott Olson, interim vice chancellor for academic and student affairs for the Minnesota State…
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