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Why professors are doing stand-up comedy in Britain

The New York Times asks University College London Professor Ian Roberts explains what he gets out of performing stand-up comedy  — a new way that British academics are interacting with the public: “You can’t really let yourself go in a lecture. I’m always looking for ways of communicating what I do in a way that…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Mental health, Muslims and Pell grants

Serious Mental Health Needs Seen Growing at Colleges Surveys show that nearly half of students who visit counseling centers have serious mental illness. (feeds.nytimes.com) U.S. students discovering U.K. universities When Adelaide Waldrop learned that she had been consigned to the wait list at each of the four universities she wanted most to attend, it was…
by Alex Friedrich

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Hunger-strike students on the road to DC

Hunger-strike students on the road to DC

A group of DREAM Act hunger strikers that MPR’s Sasha Aslanian wrote about earlier is driving cross country today to Washington, D.C., to make tomorrow’s Senate vote on debate on the DREAM Act. (You can see their video and a link here.) Now in its seventh day of fasting, the group of students — Latinos…
by Alex Friedrich

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What Wells Fargo says it'll do if a student borrower dies

Earlier this month I posted a link to this Wall Street Journal article on a bill that would require lenders to make clear the obligations of student-loan co-signers in the event of a student’s death. I got this announcement today from Wells Fargo: New loan forgiveness policy adopted to ease burden on families and cosigners…
by Alex Friedrich

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U of Minnesota Vikings game parking info here

Going to be attending the Vikings game Monday — or hanging out anywhere near University of Minnesota campus? The U has this parking information for you. Among the announcements: Individuals who are not attending the game or scheduled for work-related activities are encouraged to avoid the campus area. Do your part to help us reduce…
by Alex Friedrich

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School of Athens recreated at St. Ben's and St. John's

School of Athens recreated at St. Ben's and St. John's

Check out this amazing living recreation of Raphael’s “School of Athens” painting by faculty at the College of Saint Benedict and St. John’s University. The Chronicle of Higher Education describes some of the challenges that Anthony Cunningham, chair of the philosophy department, faced in pulling it off: One challenge, of course, was costuming. Some folks…
by Alex Friedrich

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The most scandalous statistic in higher ed

Richard Vedder reveals in the Chronicle of Higher Education what he thinks is “the single most scandalous statistic in higher education”: Approximately 60 percent of the increase in the number of college graduates from 1992 to 2008 worked in jobs that the (Bureau of Labor Statistics) considers relatively low skilled — occupations where many participants…
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How students act in prof evaluations

“Students are very generous, but they’ll zap you.” — University of Northern Iowa marketing professor Dennis Clayson on his poll, which showed that one out of three students surveyed admitted they had lied on anonymous teacher evaluations. Two out of 10 admitted they had lied on the comments section of the evaluations. Although some students…
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Notes in the Margins: Kline, elite colleges and commercialization

Representative Kline Eyes Way to Stop Rule Restricting For-Profit Colleges Kline, a Minnesota Republican who will become chairman of the education committee in January, said he would rather that nonprofit and for-profit colleges be required to disclose graduation rates, costs, and graduates’ debt burdens to all applicants. The so-called gainful employment rule is scheduled to…
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