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January 24, 2014 11:36 AM

Is Pine Tech’s bid for community-college status part of a trend?

Pine Technical College‘s attempt to become Pine Technical and Community College is part of a long-term change among Minnesota’s technical colleges. A handful of technical colleges have become comprehensive campuses in the last decade or so, leaving another handful with a purely technical orientation. Pine’s bid to become a comprehensive campus comes a workforce development Read more →

by Alex Friedrich

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January 24, 2014 2:38 AM

Notes in the Margins: Contraception, the leadership obsession and a job guarantee

Utopian Pasts and Futures The belief that the liberal arts and sciences should be central to higher education rests on a distinctively American idea. The criticism of this kind of education, and the insistence in much of the national debate today about the priority of training in vocational skills, is also a distinctively American idea. (The Huffington Read more →

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January 23, 2014 4:12 PM

When temps plummet, how do school districts decide when to close?

How district officials make the often-difficult decision depends on a number of factors. Sometimes it has to do with diesel. At other times it's about gloves.

by Tim Post and Liala Helal

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January 23, 2014 10:19 AM

Chancellor: Campuses will control MnSCU’s transformation

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system Chancellor Steven Rosenstone — who has faced faculty suspicion that he’s trying to centralize decision-making — says in the Pioneer Press that he won’t try to micromanage the committees carrying out his overhaul of the system: “The people doing the work have to be the ones at the Read more →

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January 23, 2014 8:22 AM

MnSCU names two interim campus presidents, academic chief

As I mentioned in my story on Metropolitan State University yesterday, St. Cloud State University Provost Devinder Malhotra has been named interim president of Metro State. He starts July 1, and his term is for two years. He’s the second interim president named yesterday. Lisa Larson will be taking charge at North Hennepin Community College Read more →

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January 23, 2014 5:44 AM

Notes in the Margins: Stereotypes, undermatching and a book-sales dip

Federal task force to target campus sexual assaults The announcement is seen as a victory by many college activists, who have organized in recent years to file federal complaints against administrators. (Los Angeles Times) Textbook CFO: U.S. Higher-Education Recovery Unlikely This Year Pearson’s finance chief said Thursday that the publisher’s core U.S. higher-education business faces Read more →

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January 22, 2014 3:00 PM

U of M officials making case for bonding bill funds

We look at the University's overall financial picture and the appropriate role of state funding.

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January 22, 2014 10:19 AM

MnSCU, Metro State grapple with demand for four-year degrees

State college and university leaders are trying to fill the growing hunger for bachelor’s degrees in the Twin Cities metro area – and say Metropolitan State University may not be large enough to handle demand. The 43-year-old university in St. Paul has long played a niche role within the public university system – as a Read more →

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January 22, 2014 9:00 AM

Diversifying teachers to close the achievement gap

"We get together and shame ourselves, but we haven't taken specific actions," State Sen. Patricia Torres Ray said. "This is a specific action."

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January 22, 2014 1:33 AM

University of Minnesota – Duluth ranked 5th snowiest U.S. campus

On the heels of the list of the coldest colleges in the U.S. comes this ranking — using Accuweather data — that places the University of Minnesota – Duluth in fifth place among colleges that receive the most snow. The campus gets almost 86 inches of snow each year. According to The Post Standard in Read more →

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