Alex FriedrichNow that Minnesota legislators have proposed limits on how much students’ tuition could increase over the next biennium — generally 2-5 percent depending on the institution — let’s take a look at a dozen colleges on The Huffington Post‘s list of the states with the highest proposed increases. (State legislators have warned that without the Read more →
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Archives for March 2011
University of Pennsylvania alumni interviewer Andrew Ross tells Bloomberg News why he (and apparently other Ivy League grads) is getting tired of interviewing dozens of students only see so few of his recommendations get in: “Is it worth it to interview if I’m not going to have any influence on the students getting in? If Read more →
Looks like DFLers and higher-ed executives are reading from the same book in this week’s higher-ed budget debates. Just yesterday Macalester President Brian Rosenberg, Rep. Terry Morrow (DLF-St. Peter) and Rep. Sandy Pappas (DFL-St. Paul) all quoted concepts espoused by Robert B. Archibald and David H. Feldman, the authors of the recently published book Why Read more →
Virginia Tech fined $55K for response to shootings Virginia Tech will have to pay the maximum $55,000 fine for violating federal law by waiting too long to notify students during the 2007 shooting rampage. (Associated Press via The Boston Globe) Charity addressing campus gambling seems risky to some Should colleges treat gambling like alcohol, writing Read more →
Hours after the Senate passed its higher-education bill this afternoon — which Democrats called the deepest higher-ed cuts in the history of the state — the House pushed through its own bill, and added a twist or two that left the DFL howling. The bill, passed 69-60 largely along party lines, cut higher ed spending Read more →
The Minnesota Senate passed its omnibus higher education bill today, which would hit colleges and universities with double-digit budget cuts and tuition caps, and ban state and federal funds from being used in human cloning research. The bill, which passed on a 37-27 vote, would cut state funding for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Read more →
Minnesota Higher Education Commissioner Sheila Wright has written a letter to Michelle Fischbach (R-Paynesville), chairwoman of the Senate higher education committee. She makes the usual arguments against funding cuts, but also addresses the human cloning amendment: “SF924 contains policy provisions that should be dealt with separately. Language regarding human cloning is moving in a separate Read more →
Ann Johnson, chair of the University of St. Thomas psychology department, tells TommieMedia about professors’ dissatisfaction with the university’s faculty compensation system: “I would like to see a really sustained and open discussion about merit pay, because there are a lot of differences in opinion about it. St. Thomas has been very much driven by Read more →
With debate on the Minnesota House higher education omnibus bill looming today, higher-ed committee Chairman Bud Nornes (R-Fergus Falls) painted a sobering, if not gloomy picture of what lies ahead. “I can’t tell you anyone is happy about it,” he told reporters in the House gallery this morning, “but that’s what we have to deal Read more →
The legislature is talking big cuts, and the University of Minnesota is responding with this video: Ten years ago I was 11, and the U received more state funding than it does now. Any more cuts and all of our educations will suffer. Why would legislators consider this move? Because they haven’t yet heard your Read more →