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On Campus Blog

Why all that feel-good admissions stuff you hear is B.S.

The right fit? Home away from home? Kindred spirits? Hogwash! In the vein of the last less-than-uplifting admissions post, Tom Bartlett of the Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a depressing report on how investment banks and other firms recruit only from certain Ivy League schools — sorry, Brown and MIT — and look at…
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Tina Fey in movie about college admissions

Tina Fey in movie about college admissions

Oh, to stare into the world of an admissions officer. What would we find? Are they as uptight and quietly elitist as the one portrayed in Risky Business? We may get another look. The Hollywood Web site TheWrap.com reports that comedy star Tina Fey will be starring in a movie about “an admissions officer at…
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Gay coach sues University of Minnesota

Early last month, the Minnesota Daily reported that a former golf coach at the University of Minnesota was preparing to sue the U, alleging it had discriminated against her for being gay. Looks like she is following through. From the Associated Press: A former associate women’s golf coach alleges the University of Minnesota stripped her…
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How med-student debt could lead to a primary care shortage

Fine, so financial complaints by soon-to-be-highly-paid young physicians might not seem the most pressing issue in this recession. But the Supreme Court’s ruling that medical residents must pay Social Security raises the issue of a possible connection between their debt burden and the shortage of primary care for the rest of Americans. The Court had…
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Notes in the Margins: Record apps, humanities and longform

Charles Kolb: Reforming American Postsecondary Education Are we about to enter an era of postsecondary education reform comparable to what we’ve seen in the K-12 arena for almost 30 years? (Huffington Post) Dartmouth College, University of Chicago Get Record Undergrad Applications – Bloomberg Dartmouth College and the University of Chicago reported all-time highs in undergraduate…
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Med residents are taxable employees, Supreme Court rules

Got this today from the Associated Press. University of Minnesota’s response follows. (Note: Residents won’t be paying any more than they already have. See last paragraph in U’s response.) The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that medical residents should be considered employees when it comes to collecting Social Security taxes. The high court said that the…
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How one MN blogger sees the rankings

Just had to chuckle when I came across this Minnesota blogger’s home-brewed set of university rankings. Comprehensive. Scientific. Unbiased. 1. St. Cloud State University; St. Cloud, Minnesota 2. University of North Dakota; Grand Forks, North Dakota 3. Harvard University; Cambridge, Massechusetts 4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, Massechusetts 5. Northwestern University; Evanston, Illinois 6. Stanford…
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Southwest Minnesota State goes tobacco-free

Southwest Minnesota State goes tobacco-free

xavierla via Flickr No tobacco here Southwest Minnesota State University freshman Samantha Abens tells the Marshall Independent what she thinks of the campus’ new tobacco-free policy, which kicked in Jan. 1: “I like the new policy a lot. A lot of students come into class smelling like smoke, or they’d be smoking right by the…
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How Concordia College is retooling its business program, facilities

How Concordia College is retooling its business program, facilities

The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead reports on Concordia College’s transformation of the Grant Center into the new Offutt School of Business: When the roughly $13 million project is done, the footprint of the building originally used for food service will remain, but nearly everything else will be different. “The layout bears absolutely no resemblance,” said Greg…
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Duncan: How did Loughner get a gun?

“From what I read, they said to the family that ‘he needs some help and we won’t take him back until you get him some help.’ I’m not quite sure what else that community college can do. … If I was the chancellor of that community college, I think that would have been my response.…
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