Alex FriedrichFunny, just after writing about the financing hubbub over college sports, I come across this: Minnesota State University – Moorhead is considering starting a Division I ice hockey program in by the 2013-14 school year, and would spend more than $1 million a year in coaching salaries and benefits to maintain it, The Forum of Read more →
MPR News Intelligence on higher education
Archives for September 2011
Here’s a rough summary of the main points discussed in this week’s Midmorning program on whether colleges should pay their athletes beyond just giving them scholarships. The host is MPR’s Kerri Miller. She’s joined by Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “America in the King Years,” contributor to The Atlantic and author of the e-book Read more →
Now this is an elaborate wedding proposal. (And why didn’t I have this kind of guts in college?) Former UCLA student Nam Tran organized a flash mob near the UCLA study room — the spot where he first met his girlfriend, Trang. At one point he — and the whole group — get down on one knee. Read more →
Pay for Only 4 Years of College. Guaranteed. At Randolph-Macon College this year, a new student, along with a parent and the college president, could sign a special agreement that is emerging at some colleges and universities: As long as the student keeps up with academic work and meets regularly with advisers, the college guarantees that earning a Read more →
After being closed for about a year for renovation, the University of Minnesota‘s Weisman Art Museum is reopening, with a gala event this weekend — Sunday, Oct. 2 from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Here’s the association’s article on it, along with some more sneak-peek photos. Here’s an intro by MPR’s Marianne Combs on her Read more →
We liked what we heard from the new MnSCU chancellor, Steven Rosenstone, when we met with him a few weeks ago, and we said so then. … He’s off to a strong start, and he’s right when he says, “The greatest risk is the risk of business as usual.” — A recent Pioneer Press editorial Read more →
A business instructor at last week’s St. Mary’s University ESL conference in Minneapolis grappled with the issue of what kind of overall grade to give a paper when the content is great, but the English is sub-par. ESL expert Dana Ferris gave some perspective on how to be fair to the students. But what then? Read more →