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How user-friendly is the Common Application?

How user-friendly is the Common Application?

I’ve just gotten off the phone with William Mullen, the VP for enrollment management for Augsburg College. I asked him whether he’s concerned about nationwide glitches in The Common Application, which Augsburg uses. Mullen said staffers have run some test applications, and so far have seen no problems. But he did say students will find Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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Minnesota colleges brace for potential application snafus

Minnesota colleges brace for potential application snafus

Some Minnesota private colleges are waiting nervously to see whether the association behind The Common Application works out a range of glitches in time for this fall’s early-decision application deadlines. The technical problems, which have garbled students’ applications and even prevented their delivery, blew the October early-admissions deadlines of Georgia Tech and the University of Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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Airbnb fills niche in NYC tourist market. NYC fights back

Airbnb fills niche in NYC tourist market. NYC fights back

Thousands of city residents are using websites such as Airbnb.com to list apartments or rooms for as little as $35 a night, a phenomenon officials say is illegal in many cases, undercuts the hotel industry, avoids taxes and threatens apartment building safety.

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Notes in the Margins: Music, essay mills and the scientific body blow

Is Music the Key to Success? The phenomenon extends beyond the math-music association. Strikingly, many high achievers told me music opened up the pathways to creative thinking. And their experiences suggest that music training sharpens other qualities: Collaboration. The ability to listen. A way of thinking that weaves together disparate ideas. The power to focus on Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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Why the Pioneer Press is giving the MnSCU chancellor props

Why the Pioneer Press is giving the MnSCU chancellor props

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system Chancellor Steven Rosenstone appears to have impressed the Pioneer Press with the big workforce-training initiative he has launched since taking office. The paper doesn’t get into specifics of what Rosenstone has pushed — such as employer listening sessions, more internship programs and training equipment, and an overhaul of how Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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What’s wrong with our current approach to financial aid?

What’s wrong with our current approach to financial aid?

(MPR Photo / Alex Friedrich) I recently attended a financial aid forum hosted by the state Office of Higher Education — the one where Saint Paul College President Rassoul Dastmozd warned about tying funding too closely to college performance measures. The forum raised some interesting points, such as how our financial-aid system is essentially a voucher Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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The '7 Habits' of highly successful third graders

The '7 Habits' of highly successful third graders

One year after Johnathan Kent kicked his principal and school "went all bad," the 8-year-old was recognized at a recent assembly as the "Star of the Month" for being polite and helping out his teachers.

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Lake Superior College to open a downtown Duluth campus

Lake Superior College to open a downtown Duluth campus

Just got this announcement from Lake Superior College in Duluth late yesterday. I find the downtown location interesting, especially considering MnSCU’s proposal for a systemwide overhaul of course offerings and locations. Lake Superior College Expands into Downtown Duluth Lake Superior College has announced that it will open a new campus in Downtown Duluth. The facility will Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: European plagiarism, unpaid interns and a science slur

Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science? As so many studies have demonstrated, success in math and the hard sciences, far from being a matter of gender, is almost entirely dependent on culture. (The New York Times) UK leads Europe in the fight against plagiarism Some continental efforts to ensure integrity are ‘primitive’, study Read more →
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Growing coders: Rochester programming classes bet on the future

Growing coders: Rochester programming classes bet on the future

Science, technology, engineering and math disciplines will generate tens of thousands of jobs in Minnesota in the next decade. Many of those careers require knowledge of the code language that runs computers. Rochester officials and business leaders are teaching kids to code in hopes of bringing those jobs to the area.
by Elizabeth Baier

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