Alex FriedrichGot this from the University of Minnesota — President Robert Bruininks’ comments on Gov. Mark Dayton’s bonding bill and how it affects the U of M: I’m pleased with Gov. Dayton’s bonding recommendations for the University of Minnesota and am excited about getting to work with him and the Legislature on funding some of these Read more →
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(In my day) a shovel in a a ditch or a place in the United States Army – that was remediation. At some point, young people have to realize there are consequences, and you have to buckle down and have to learn. Some of what we’re doing — I don’t know how affordable it is. Read more →
In an interesting twist on the international student story, assistant professor of English Amy Watkin of Concordia College in Moorhead tells The Concordian student paper that the system fails to help foreign students enough to understand American plagiarism and academic integrity standards: ““I’ve found that almost without exception, whatever continent you’re talking about, the students Read more →
Minnesota State University – Moorhead is seeing a record number of marijuana calls, The Advocate student paper reports Public Safety Interim Director Mitch Osland told the paper he believes the jump might reflect a heightened increase in responses by the Public Safety department under a zero-tolerance policy — and not so much an actual increase Read more →
Just got this list of projects, so I thought I’d hand it over to you in its raw form. Amounts should be in thousands, putting each into the millions. Again, MPR’s Tom Scheck reports that Dayton’s plan includes $226 million for higher education and a $51 million for a new physics and nanotechnology building at Read more →
Minneapolis (#3) and St. Paul (#7) remain unchanged in their Top 10 places of Central Connecticut State University’s list of Most Literate Cities in America. The ranking looks at cities with a population 250,000 or more and considers six indicators of literacy: newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment and Read more →
Information is dribbling in about Gov. Mark Dayton’s bonding bill and how it’ll affect higher education. MPR’s Tom Scheck reports that Dayton’s plan includes $226 million for higher education and a $51 million for a new physics and nanotechnology building at the University of Minnesota. Dayton apparently said he included all U of M and MnSCU Read more →
ladybugbkt via Flickr And this has exactly what to do with your research interests? Chronicle of Higher Education blogger “Female Science Professor” talks about how graduate-school applicants need to write more about their scholarly experiences and interests — and can the cutesy stuff: At the risk of sounding like a cranky old science professor, I Read more →
Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system announced this morning their two candidates for system chancellor. They named Steven Rosenstone, vice president for scholarly and cultural affairs at the University of Minnesota; and William Sederburg, Utah’s commissioner of higher education. The men were two of four semi-finalists. Trustees said the two others dropped Read more →
UC Irvine MLK Day dinner criticized The chicken-and-waffle meal was served on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the first day of UC Irvine’s three-day symposium in honor of the civil rights leader. Student organizations complained that the menu was insensitive. (Los Angeles Times) Federal Official Urges Colleges to Unite in Emphasizing Their Public Value As Read more →