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Archives for December 2010

Schools

Worst college role models of 2010

Alex Friedrich December 30, 2010, 4:45 PM Dec 30, 2010
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Having made its list of scandals, The Huffington Post continues down the dark path with its list of Worst College Role Models of 2010. Here’s the abbreviated list: Karen Owen. The Duke student’s “thesis” — a tell-all comparison of the men she’d slept with — took the Internet by storm. Phusion Projects. Drinking the company’s Read more →

Schools

Notable MN campus news stories of 2010

Alex Friedrich December 30, 2010, 4:00 PM Dec 30, 2010
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The Budget Crunch might be the story of the year across many Minnesota campuses, but it’s not the only thing people have been talking about. A number of campuses have still been able to sport new buildings, while a few have been busy grappling with flooding or academic controversies. Finding the most notable stories is Read more →

Post-Grad

Business is booming for the University of Gelato

Alex Friedrich December 30, 2010, 2:55 PM Dec 30, 2010
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You’ve got that right. And Carpigiani Gelato University in Italy is attracting a lot of refugees from the economic crisis, who want to make a new start in what appears to be quite a lucrative business — at least in Europe, according to the Wall Street Journal. Student Moreno Barbieri, a roofer in Italy, told Read more →

Money

How difficult it is for the homeless to study

Alex Friedrich December 30, 2010, 9:53 AM Dec 30, 2010
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Mary Ann Prado of Minneapolis Community and Technical College tells the Star Tribune of the challenges homeless students face in trying to take classes: “They are not well rested, and they are stressed out. … If you haven’t eaten, how are you going to study when your stomach is growling? I have to help find Read more →

Getting In

Why it's hard not to like the guy who scammed Harvard

Alex Friedrich December 30, 2010, 9:31 AM Dec 30, 2010
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Huffington Post college editor Leah Finnegan calls Adam Wheeler — the student who got into Harvard by lying — a modern folk hero: Getting into college is a ridiculous circus and becoming worse. Enter into any upper-to-middle class enclave from December to May and it will be the talk of the strip mall: Who got Read more →

Notes in the Margins: Gap years, playing and Apollo's founder

Alex Friedrich December 30, 2010, 9:04 AM Dec 30, 2010
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Want to get your kids into college? Let them play Every day where we work, we see our young students struggling with the transition from home to school. They’re all wonderful kids, but some can’t share easily or listen in a group. Some have impulse control problems and have trouble keeping their hands to themselves; Read more →

Money

How to turn financial aid into munchies, booze — and fees

Alex Friedrich December 29, 2010, 4:24 PM Dec 29, 2010
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University of North Dakota senior Gerbert tells CNBC what he doesn’t like about the “Higher One” debit card, which holds students’ excess financial aid for a charge: “I don’t like the fact that someone’s taking money from money I borrowed.” CNBC also asks: Is it wise to outfit students with a card that lets them Read more →

Student Life

Why that instructor-edition textbook is valuable

Alex Friedrich December 29, 2010, 1:25 PM Dec 29, 2010
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This Minnesota Daily story sounds like a twist on the textbook market shenanigans I wrote about in October: Some entrepreneurs buy instructor editions at 20 cents on the dollar and re-sell them to distributors at more than triple that price, said Richard Hull, executive director of the Text and Academic Authors Association.

Memorial service today for St. Thomas professor who died in Christmas Day fall

Alex Friedrich December 29, 2010, 11:58 AM Dec 29, 2010
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The University of St. Thomas news service reports that a memorial service will be held this evening for John Rohwer, chair of the St. Thomas Health and Human Performance Department, who died Christmas Day after he fell off his roof while shoveling snow. He was 64. The memorial service will be at 6:30 p.m. at King Read more →

Post-Grad

Cox: We've trashed alternatives to college

Alex Friedrich December 29, 2010, 10:42 AM Dec 29, 2010
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Blogger Justin Cox quotes Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe on how “alternatives” to college have gotten a bad rap in the past few decades — and why that’s hurting us: “Anything that’s not a four-year degree has become alternative. Once upon a time, alternative meant another way to get to the place you’d like to Read more →

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