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The two-campus relationship at MN State College – Southeast Technical
I’ve traveled to technical colleges before, but Minnesota State College Southeast Technical in Red Wing presents some interesting background dynamics for today’s visit. Opened in 1972, it’s the last technical college campus built in Minnesota. Yet its 66-year-old sister campus in Winona — with whom it merged in 1992 — is among the state’s oldest Read more →
When women make more, can men cope?
"The reality is that we're holding the wallet and that's quite a powerful and status-changing place to be," she writes in her new book, "When She Makes More."
Some schools are asking Congress and the Agriculture Department to roll back some of the requirements. Their main concerns: finding enough whole grain-rich foods that kids like, lowering sodium levels and keeping fruits and vegetables from ending up in the trash.
What the U says about the Senate’s bonding bill
Just got this reaction from the U to the Senate’s public-works funding bill: The following is a statement from University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler regarding the Minnesota Senate Capital Investment Committee’s bonding bill issued today: “I’d like to thank the Senate Capital Investment Committee and Chair LeRoy Stumpf for their funding proposal and continued Read more →
Why sexual assault cases on campus are often investigated by school, not police  Many victims are not prepared to go through the entire legal process because it can laborious and often not successful in winning a conviction. Some who don’t want to go to the police still don’t want the person who assaulted them living Read more →
'Massive Open Online Course' movement sputters as students underperform, drop out
The free online courses that top-notch universities offer to the public were once hyped as an innovation that could threaten the higher education establishment. But now many in the industry are scaling back expectations.
US teachers nowhere as diverse as their students
New studies from the Center for American Progress and the National Education Association are calling attention to a "diversity gap" at elementary and secondary schools in the United States. The groups want more to be done to help teachers more accurately mirror the students in their classrooms.
Klobuchar wants more money for campus sex-assault monitoring
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar has called for an increase in the number of federal investigators who make sure colleges properly handle and report sexual assault cases on their campuses. The Minnesota Democrat has joined 11 other Senators in requesting millions of dollars to fund additional personnel. She and her colleagues say investigation into colleges’ alleged Read more →