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On Campus Blog

Carlson biz undergrad program ranking slips

The U of M’s Carlson School of Management has slipped from from #55 last year to #67 this year in Bloomberg Businessweek’s ranking of undergraduate business schools. The slippage caused the snarky local U blog, The Periodic Table, to crack the whip and say: The Morrill Hall Gang had better start taking care of business…
by Alex Friedrich

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This prank sure beats toilet-papering

Gustavus Adolphus has an appetite for the bizarre this summer. Right on the heels of the blooming of its stinking Corpse Flower comes news of a prank in which students of associate professor of chemistry Scott Bur returns from vacation to find his entire office covered in aluminum foil. And I mean everything. Items were even individually…
by Alex Friedrich

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Studying abroad? Sure, party — but focus.

Studying abroad? Sure, party — but focus.

This article in the Chronicle of Higher education brought back memories and frustrations over my 10 years spent overseas, both working and studying. As the article points out, too many students (including ones I’ve met) can’t really say what they get out of ther semester/summer/year spent abroad. They just say they’ve “done the Europe thing.”…
by Alex Friedrich

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The U: We're big bucks in Crookston

The U: We're big bucks in Crookston

It’s budget-cutting time at the University of Minnesota, so I suppose it’s perfectly natural for everyone to start indicating how important their positions are. UM-Crookston campus This article in the Grand Forks Herald got my interest, because it mentions a University of Minnesota Extension report that is more detailed than what I’m used to seeing in the news. The…
by Alex Friedrich

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What’s that stench coming from Gustavus Adolphus?

Don’t be surprised if you get a whiff of rot coming from the Gustavus campus this week. Gustavus Adolphus Web cam Perry could bloom as early as today. It’s not the cafeteria. For the first time in three years (and only the second time in its life), the college’s rare Corpse Flower (Amorphophallus titanum) named…
by Alex Friedrich

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Ideas on narrowing the grad gap for minorities — 10 a.m

Check out MPR’s Midmorning program on a new report showing that minority students are not graduating college at the same rate as their classmates. One of the guests is President William Flores of the University of Houston-Downtown, one of the institutions backing the DREAM Act, which I’ve discussed in an earlier post. It’s federal legislation…
by Alex Friedrich

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Recruitment of the MnSCU chief begins

We finally have a look at the 16 people who will help the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system find the replacement for Chancellor James H. McCormick, who is retiring next year after a decade in the position. The people announced today are: Travis Johnson, president of the Minnesota State College Student Association; Andrew Spaeth, state…
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Why working-class whites don't trust you Harvard types

Columnist Ross Douthat says they feel left out of the elite college game. If such universities are trying to create an elite as diverse as the nation it inhabits, they should remember that there’s more to diversity than skin color — and that both their school and their country might be better off if they…
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Letting immigrants study, fight — and stay

Wikimedia Commons Pro-DREAM Act poster A number of college presidents are speaking out nationally for federal legislation that would let as many as 1.5 million undocumented students become legal if they meet certain conditions — such as study or military service. They’re backing the DREAM Act, which for years has floated around Congress in various versions…
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