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On Campus Blog

Deficit blocks Minnesota's chances of more higher-ed funding

Hoping the state might slide a little more money higher ed’s way? Little chance, writes MPR’s Tim Post: None of Minnesota’s three major party candidates for governor sees money being available for an increase in light of the state’s $5.8 billion deficit. Emmer appears to be the only one planning significant, concrete cuts — $312…
by Alex Friedrich

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How much student debt continues to climb

How much student debt continues to climb

By the time you click this link to go to the source, FinAid.org, that number above will have grown.
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Graduating athletes, retirement cuts and world accessibility rankings

UC President Recommends Cutting Retirement Benefits Former University of Minnesota president — and current UC president — Mark Yudof has released his recommendations for how he wants the University of California to change its employee retirement plan and eliminate a $12.9 billion unfunded liability. (universitybusiness.com) Athletes Graduating at Record Rate N.C.A.A. athletes are earning degrees…
by Alex Friedrich

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Census opening data center on U-Minn. campus

MPR’s Tim Post reports that the U.S. Census Bureau is opening up a data center on the University of Minnesota campus. He quotes President Bob Bruininks saying the data will help answer: “Questions that have to do with the migration of people, economic trends within states and across the country, issues that have to do…
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An obstacle to Obama's push for more grads

Just as we learn that two-year schools such as Century College are bursting at the seams with higher enrollment — and are playing a big role in the Obama administration’s education agenda — comes this sobering fact in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Last year community colleges reported more midyear budget cuts than any other…
by Alex Friedrich

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Report card: Minnesota's greenest campuses

Report card: Minnesota's greenest campuses

The 5th annual College Sustainability Report Card, which bills itself as the only independent evaluation of the sustainability of North American campuses and their investments, has rated a handful of Minnesota colleges and universities for their greenness — as well as how socially responsible they are. How they stack up, according to results released today:…
by Alex Friedrich

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Life as a student-neighbor liaison near St. Thomas

Neighborhood liaison John Hershey in TommieMedia on the ups and downs of mediating between neighbors and students in noise and drunken-behavior cases: “My job is very odd because I live in the neighborhood, so it’s kind of like I’m a small town minister,” Hershey said. “Wherever I go, someone wants to ask me about my…
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More Mac grads studying the divine

Katie Zager of The Mac Weekly writes how Macalester College — not exactly a fire-and-brimstone kind of place — is sending increasing numbers of students to divinity school: “One interesting reality at Macalester is that though the college is often touted as a place that is uninterested in the practice of religion in a broad…
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Video: So you want to get a PhD in the humanities?

Video: So you want to get a PhD in the humanities?

Found this on the Tweed blog on the Chronicle of Higher Education: A jaded professor tries to persuade her robotic, tunnel-visioned student not to go for a PhD in English. It rips on students’ sense of entitlement and inflated feelings of self-worth, but also paints the professor as a burned-out, jaded shell of a human…
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Online help with textbook costs

Online help with textbook costs

Just passing a long a couple of Web site links that Todd Digby, textbook liaison for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system, offered Friday to student leaders: The Student PIRGs (student Public Interest Research Group) textbooks site is nice because it focuses on the issues of affordable textbooks, plus it has a wealth of…
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