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How historians may become businesspeople

Just as more and more journalists have had to become “entrepreneurs” who market their work and keep an eye on the number of reader clicks they generate, so too must professors, it seems. Inside Higher Ed reports on how history instructors may indeed have to adopt the very business mentality they resent: One solution to…
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How can Minnesota colleges monitor disruptive students?

MPR’s Tim Post has this piece on how Minnesota colleges and universities approach the tough task of monitoring disruptive, potentially violent students. It’s a tough job, they say, dealing with a student who seems menacing but who has made not threats. (That’s echoed in this New York Times piece and Huffington Post piece on the…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Loughner, foreign detainees and the business mindset

Far From Canada, Aggressive U.S. Border Patrols Snag Foreign Students University officials say the students have been detained even when in compliance with visa laws. (chronicle.com) Law Schools Are Urged to Focus More on Practical Skills and Less on Research Such a shift is needed at a time when big law firms are balking at…
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FBI scrutinizes Winona State guest speaker

For those who’ve missed it, I’m posting MPR reporter Laura Yuen’s article on University of Victoria professor Waziyatawin (formerly known as Angela Cavender Wilson), a Minnesota American Indian scholar who drew the attention of the FBI when she told a Winona State University audience that the Dakota people might have to reclaim lost tribal lands…
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How law schools make themselves look (too) good

Indiana University law professor William Henderson explains how law schools can continue to issue rosy job outlooks for grads even though so many are unemployed and choking on student loans: “Enron-type accounting standards have become the norm. “Every time I look at this data, I feel dirty.”
by Alex Friedrich

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Some top Tommie photos

Some top Tommie photos

St. Thomas photographers Mike Ekern, Mark Jensen and Thomas Whisenand have posted a slideshow of their favorite St. Thomas photos out of the 6,500 or so what they took in 2010. You can check it out here.
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(Update) For-profit college shares plunge; Capella down almost 20 percent

Here’s the updated piece from Bloomberg. Capella University’s dive was a little larger than in the previous report: 19.71%. Strayer Education Inc. led declines among for-profit colleges, with its shares falling the most in almost 11 years, after the company said government scrutiny of education companies discouraged students from enrolling. The Arlington, Virginia-based company, which…
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(Updated) MCTC had its own menacing studentd

(Updated) MCTC had its own menacing studentd

UPDATE: I’ve put in a call to MCTC and the Minneapolis police to get an update on this case. Police Sgt. William Palmer said his files show no record of it, and college spokeswoman Dawn Skelly said she’s looking into it further. I’m curious under what conditions the student was able to take online classes…
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Did campus officials think Loughner was actually dangerous?

From a Pima College press release quoted in the Tucson Sentinel: A follow-up letter was sent to him October 7, 2010 indicating that if he intends to return to the College, he must resolve his Code of Conduct violations and obtain a mental health clearance indicating, in the opinion of a mental health professional, his…
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How people saw Loughner's menacing behavior

Here’s a mix of accounts from the New York Times, in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal about how Loughner’s sometimes “menacing” behavior — usually in the form of disruptive outbursts — disturbed some of those in class. Ben McGahee, Pima College algebra instructor: “I was getting concerned about the safety of the students…
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