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A look at the first year under the UMN athletic director

A look at the first year under the UMN athletic director

University of Minnesota Athletic Director Norwood Teague tells the Star Tribune about how he offered to hold individual meetings with more than 50 fans so they could air their complaints: “There was a guy who said, ‘You said should not take this personally [because] part of this is 40 years of frustration coming to the…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Employee loans, luxury digs and academic doping

Sen. Schumer seeks crackdown on “academic doping” Sen. Charles Schumer of New York said up to 35 percent of all college kids report using stimulants like Adderall and Ritalin as a study tool. He wants colleges to come back from summer break with a plan on how to deal with abuse of the prescription ADHD pills. (CBS…
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Winona State University students to get tablets this fall

Winona State University students to get tablets this fall

This just in: Winona State University will be the first public university in the Midwest to offer a tablet and a laptop to all students starting in fall 2013. WSU’s Digital Life and Learning Program will provide all new Winona State students, and students due for their two-year laptop exchange, an iPad mini or Android-based…
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What the small group of people in front of the McNamara Alumni Center was doing Friday

What the small group of people in front of the McNamara Alumni Center was doing Friday

You may recall the address made at the University of Minnesota’s budget forum earlier this month by a steward of the union representing the U’s clerical workers — the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. (The U’s response is here. Further response is below.) Just before Friday’s Board of Regents meeting, the union…
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Two letters about tuition at the University of Minnesota

Two letters about tuition at the University of Minnesota

As you may have gathered from posts I’ve put up recently, the affordability of an education — especially at the University of Minnesota — is on a lot of people’s minds. Here are a couple of comments posted on the subject. One is from Krista Finstad Hanson, a U alumna. She said she wrote it…
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How to read the University of Minnesota’s efficiency evaluation

How to read the University of Minnesota’s efficiency evaluation

Last week I waded through the report on efficiency at the University of Minnesota, marveling at the buzzwords and tortured English that infest consultant-speak. I vented to MPR business correspondent Martin Moylan, who told me where that stuff comes from: internet language generators. He started me off with the dack.com Web Economy Bullsh-t Generator, which…
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Why luxury housing is growing around the University of Minnesota

Why luxury housing is growing around the University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota architecture student Alex Johnson tells the Star Tribune why he loves living in a two-bedroom, two-bath corner unit at the high-end Stadium Village Flats: “I just turned 20 years old a couple of days ago and live in a place with granite countertops, quality furniture and a view like none other. I…
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Notes in the Margins: Community colleges, unprepared graduates and student-loan profit

Chinese Dissident Says He’s Being Forced From N.Y.U. Chen Guangcheng, the dissident legal advocate whose escape from house arrest to the American Embassy in Beijing last year provoked a diplomatic crisis, said he was being forced to leaveNew York University over concerns that his activism was harming the university’s relationship with China. (The New York Times) UK, US…
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Officials skeptical of report on administrative efficiency at U of M

The Senate leader on higher-education says a new report on administrative efficiency at the University of Minnesota confirms her belief that the university is well-managed compared to its peers. The authors of the report, released Thursday, say the university ranks middle of the pack among a sample of more than half a dozen peers. They…
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