Alex FriedrichMPR / Tim Post Big decision to make By the end of next week, the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system’s board of trustees is expected to hire a new chancellor. Trustees are expected to name the candidates Monday, and public interviews will take place that week. Here’s MPR’s Tim Post report. Details of the Read more →
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Archives for January 2011
Just after yesterday’s MN House hearing on a state textbook report, I talked to Rep. King Banaian (R – St. Cloud), who is on the House higher education committee. Banaian is a St. Cloud State University economics professor and director of the Center for Economic Education. He agreed that professors need to be more aware Read more →
If the breadth of alumni giving equals love, then Carleton College is the second most-loved college in the U.S. according to data from US News & World Report. More than six in 10 alumni give money to the school, the magazine reports. The rankings do not factor in the size of the gift, however. The Read more →
As we lament the lack of learning in college by students with their iPads, social-network savvy and high self-esteem, University of Minnesota senior Peter Wildberger suggests that old school — and he means the oldest of old school — still might be the best school: Since I started school without direction, I didn’t learn much Read more →
MPR’s Tom Scheck reports on the state House passage of a budget bill that, among other things, cuts $185 million from a funding increase to the University of Minnesota and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, leaving them with essentially flat funding from this year to next. He quotes Rep. Tom Rukavina, DFL-Virginia, who criticized Republicans Read more →
UND denies pressuring Summit League to take stand on nickname, logo Less than a day after a news story implied UND pressured the Summit League to take a stand against the controversial Fighting Sioux nickname to help place the school’s potential membership on the fast track, UND athletic department officials went on the offensive to Read more →
MPR’s Elizabeth Dunbar reports today on a twist to the story on the Supreme Court ruling that medical residents be considered employees rather than students, and must pay Social Security. A number of medical-resident reps applauded the ruling, because they hope it will allow them to gain more federal labor protection — like disability pay Read more →
Fortunately, it looks like the financial situation at St. Cloud State University isn’t quite as dire as once thought. First came the news in November that students voted to increase student fees to buy another two years for a number of athletic programs, including football, which were slated for elimination. Now the St. Cloud Times Read more →
Either he’s grandstanding, or state Rep. Joe Atkins has had some bad experiences with textbooks and costs — I assume during some period of teaching he said he’s done. At a state Office of Higher Education (OHE) presentation on textbook costs today, he told the other House higher education committee members: College textbooks “are an Read more →