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Arizona shooter's Pima College YouTube video

Arizona shooter's Pima College YouTube video

This is what Jared Loughner suspended — his text-based presentation about how Pima College, which he used to attend, is unconstitutional, defrauds its students, has illiterate faculty, etc. It’s obviously the product of an unstable mind — and reads like a series of failed logic exercises.
by Alex Friedrich

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Arizona shooter's college behavior issues

Here’s a summary by the Chronicle of Higher Education on Arizona shooter Jared Lee Loughner’s problems in college: Jared Lee Loughner, the 22-year-old suspect in the Tucson, Ariz., shootings on Saturday that left six people dead, including a federal judge, and 14 wounded, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, dropped out of Pima Community College last…
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Notes in the Margins: Tablets, Friday classes and the learning police

College accreditors become learning police The learning police are on patrol, and some college professors say they have been too quick to the draw recently. Accrediting agencies, pressured by the federal government to ensure colleges are properly educating students, have cracked down on the schools to prove themselves. And that pressure will become more urgent…
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Video: Health care reform — for student consumption

Video: Health care reform — for student consumption

Just FYI, here’s the video that Minnesota State University Student Association leaders are supposed to see today before discussing student health care at a state meeting —  which I’m at now. It’s billed as a fairly accessible by taking a lot of the jargon out of the explanation. Check it out — and maybe show…
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Smoldering cigarette butts caused fire that killed St. Thomas student

TommieMedia reports that fire officials have concluded that improper disposal of smoking materials likely caused the house fire that killed sophomore Michael Larson in December. St. Paul Fire Marshal Steve Zaccard told the college news outlet: “According to the interviews of the survivors, they smoked out there [on the porch]. They discarded the butts in…
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How Minnesota state university students buy textbooks

How Minnesota state university students buy textbooks

Textbook prices were a hot topic this past semester, especially with new textbook disclosure regulations having gone into force in July. The state legislature asked the Minnesota Office of Higher Education for a report on how the text situation looks in the state, including info on steps toward cost containment, legal compliance and other elements.…
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Why innovators still seek the liberal arts mind

Ben Wildavsky writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education that the U.S. liberal-arts system is still considered valuable by a number of economic hard-chargers: As Yale President Richard Levin often points out, it’s noteworthy that Asian nations, admired and sometimes feared by the West for their fast-growing academic and economic attainment, are showing great interest…
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What is the Boomerang Generation?

What is the Boomerang Generation?

Stumbled across this New Yorker piece a little while back. For those who’ve just gone through the ordeal of winter break with college-age children, the Boomerang Generation phenomenon is even more quality time to look forward to — this summer or one coming up.
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Top 10 Chronicle of Higher Ed stories for 2010

Been reading the Chronicle of Higher Education much? Then you might recognize the 10 most-read stories, as presented by Chronicle writer Xarissa Holdaway: 1. “The Shadow Scholar” 2. National Research Council Rankings of Doctoral Programs 3. “Why Did 17 Million Students Go to College?” 4. “The Trustworthiness of Beards” 5. “The Big Lie About the…
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Franken visiting, speaking at U of Minnesota today

Minneapolis — U.S. Sen. Al Franken visits the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis on Friday to visit medical research labs and speak at a conference. The first-term Democrat delivers a speech at a conference on environmentally friendly chemistry at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Afterward, he will visit two university labs where researchers are…
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