“As a student it’s really frustrating to hear. Because it’s like, ‘I thought you were here to help me learn.”
— Jamie Totman, vice president of the second-year class at the University of Minnesota – Duluth‘s medical school, on the decision by some faculty not to allow their lectures to be recorded despite the U’s move to do so.
Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.
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