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MnSCU introduces itself to the state Senate

Tame Senate hearing today for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system today. It was mostly an introduction for members of the Senate’s committee on higher education. System leaders laid out stats, what MnSCU does, the students it serves, its successes, etc. There were a few words on the challenges, but most of the…
by Alex Friedrich

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Heading to the Capitol

Going to listen to the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system give the Senate an overview of how it works today. We’ll see what kinds of questions the legislators ask. I’ll be tweeting the highlights, so feel free to follow me on Twitter: @MPRAFriedrich.
by Alex Friedrich

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Why colleges are responsible for students' lack of learning

In today’s Midmorning program, “Is higher education losing its meaning?” host Kerri Miller talks about a new book — Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses — that says college students aren’t learning much in their years on campus. The research in the book indicates that more than a third of college students showed no…
by Alex Friedrich

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Who's qualified to do counseling work?

MPR’s Tim Post has a piece today on the reduction of counselors at Minnesota’s community colleges and universities — even as the number of cases is increasing. Anoka Technical College counselor Kevin Lindstrom brings up an interesting point when he tells Post what’s wrong with spreading mental-health counseling duties throughout the staff of a college:…
by Alex Friedrich

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Bruininks: U of Minnesota is tougher, but reaching out more than before

Right after his appeals to the legislature to spare the University of Minnesota during budget talks, President Robert Bruininks writes an opinion piece in the Grand Forks Herald about the U’s academic progress and increased enrollment, saying he never could have made it there as a student today: Over the course of the past decade,…
by Alex Friedrich

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Video: COPS comes to campus with Campus PD

Video: COPS comes to campus with Campus PD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKosRg0PXfk&feature=related Can’t get enough of those news reports of the latest campus crime or drunken college student  behavior? Check out Campus PD, the collegiate version of the reality show Cops. It’s a little over a year old — its third season was scheduled to start this month — and the Web site bills it like…
by Alex Friedrich

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Concordia College presses on with presidential search

Kelsy Johnson of The Concordian student paper reports on the status of the presidential search at Concordia College in Moorhead, which has drawn about 70 nominations: The nominees come from diverse occupations and backgrounds, but their religious affiliation is the same. Whoever wins the approval of the Board of Regents will be a member of…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Millennials, rankings and state funding

The Flaw of Overall Rankings Many college administrators are uncomfortable with rankings of colleges and universities, such as those found in U.S. News & World Report. Perhaps they don’t like the idea of measuring the quality of an institution of higher learning, or they don’t like the way the measurements are done. But from a psychological…
by Alex Friedrich

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How community-college students get their textbooks

How community-college students get their textbooks

Earlier this month I posted the results of a survey of how Minnesota State University students get their textbooks — new, used, rented, online, etc. Here’s the companion survey, which covers students at Minnesota state community and technical colleges. As with the last one, this was not a scientific survey, especially considering the small sample…
by Alex Friedrich

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Is the job security of Moorhead Corrick Center faculty less certain?

Is the job security of Moorhead Corrick Center faculty less certain?

When I spoke last week to Denise Gorsline, dean of Minnesota State University – Moorhead’s University College about the closure of the Corrick Center for at-risk students, she said the university didn’t expect to save any money through the closure, since faculty and staff would be reassigned. But comments by Corrick Center interim director Gary…
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