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Should college rankings include rape and assault statistics?

Should college rankings include rape and assault statistics?

The Princeton Review's college rankings can tell you which schools offer good value, where to find the swankiest dorms and whether a campus looks like something out of Reefer Madness. What those rankings don't tell you is whether your college pick has a rape and sexual assault problem.
by Juana Summers

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Instructor: MCTC rescinds reprimand over racial row

Instructor: MCTC rescinds reprimand over racial row

The note below just came in from Minneapolis Community and Technical College instructor Shannon Gibney, who last fall appealed a reprimand over how she handled a heated discussion of race with three white students. MCTC instructor: I was reprimanded for how I handled a discrimination debate (November 2013) I’ll try to get some MCTC comment/verification. (Update:…
by Alex Friedrich

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Spending report modifies statements about the U

Earlier this week, the progressive Institute for Policy Studies pulled a report critical of the administrative spending at the University of Minnesota and other universities because of questions over the accuracy its data. It has since reissued the report with some modified conclusions — which campus officials still dispute. I’d like to get more detail,…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes: Hotels, coding schools, and a senator’s debt

Emory hires first African-American woman to lead top business school While three minority women are currently deans at American colleges of business, James will be the first to lead a full-time MBA program at a top-25 business school. (CNN via The Huffington Post) Elizabeth Warren on Spiraling Student Debt and What Should Be Done About It The…
by Alex Friedrich

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Lawmakers seek delay on healthy lunch rules for schools

Lawmakers seek delay on healthy lunch rules for schools

How hard can it be for school cafeterias to swap white bread for whole-grain tortillas, cut sodium, and nudge kids to put more fruit and vegetables on their trays? Tougher than you might imagine, according to some schools.
by Allison Aubrey

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Institute pulls admin-pay report over AFT data

A spokesman for the University of Minnesota — which took issue with its ranking in the Institute for Policy Studies’s report on administrative pay — pointed out this announcement this morning: IPS Statement on low-wage faculty findings: Due to questions about information we gathered from the American Federation of Teachers Higher Ed Data Center website, we…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes: Evolution, remediation and $80 free applications

Young Adults, Student Debt and Economic Well-Being An analysis of the most recent Survey of Consumer Finances finds that households headed by a young, college-educated adult without any student debt obligations have about seven times the typical net worth ($64,700) of households headed by a young, college-educated adult with student debt ($8,700). (Pew Research Center)…
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