Alex Friedrich
One of many episodes of the comic Piled Higher and Deeper on life as a grad student.
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Archives for April 2011
For those following the state legislation that would require voters to present photo identification at the polls — something students say would unfairly hinder a lot of student voters — the Senate bill has passed on a party line vote of 37 to 26. MPR’s Capitol View reports that Sen. Warren Limmer, R-Maple Grove, said Read more →
In a piece about how University of Minnesota students will have to compete more and more with non-students for inexpensive housing, the Minnesota Daily offered a statistic I hadn’t seen before: The University of Minnesota may be the second-largest Big Ten school, but it has another distinction as well — the third smallest on-campus housing Read more →
Four Minnesota community colleges have been named among the top 10 percent in the country by the Aspen Institute, and are in the running (along with 116 others in the country) for the $1 million Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence: Alexandria Technical College Central Lakes College-Brainerd Minnesota State Community and Technical College Minnesota West Read more →
“Put more simply, there is a far greater chance that students who come to the Twin Cities from another state will stay here than that students who go to Madison or Fargo or Billings will stay there after graduating.” — University of Minnesota analyst Peter Zetterberg, in a paper quoted by the Associated Press, which Read more →
This list of the most useless college majors by The Daily Beast will likely irritate supporters of arts and the humanities — and offer an opportunity to gloat for those who see a college education merely as a ticket to a good job. At the top, of course, is the obvious: journalism, where jobs like mine Read more →
Tutor-activist Rosemary Sellers explains in The Huffington Post what parents should do if they’re posting their kids’ college acceptance results on Facebook: If you want to stop being a competitive, self-centered, obnoxious parent, then keep your kid’s admissions information to yourself. If they decide to post it all over FB, fine… but don’t you do Read more →
College campuses add language immersion programs Colleges and universities nationwide are creating and expanding existing language immersion programs, under which students live together while learning a language around the clock. (USA Today) Governor suggests schools should drill for natural gas Some Pennsylvania universities should consider drilling for natural gas below campus to help solve their Read more →
Emily Peterson, editor-in-chief of St. Cloud State’s University Chronicle student paper, has come up with Top 10 things professors should know. Here’s an abbreviated list: 1. We don’t care about your political affiliation. There are far too many professors who blast their political views when it is completely unnecessary. 2. Some students, believe it or Read more →
Here’s an ad the University of Minnesota has put out to boost opposition to the state’s anti-cloning legislation. Si is there a focused campaign? Is the U going to be battling this out? I’ve got a call in to find out.