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Education News

MPR News keeps track of the latest education news in Minnesota so you can understand the events shaping the future of learning and how it impacts students at any level.

Stay informed about local education events, policies and more happening in schools and colleges across Minnesota.

Notes in the Margins: Class, nontenured faculty and testing for a job

Class Is Seen Dividing Harvard Business School As soon as new students arrive, they are expected to write checks of $300 or $400 to their “sections,” the groups with whom they take first-year classes, if they want to participate in social events. In recent years, second-year students have organized a midwinter ski trip that costs over Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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Minnesota colleges launch push for more international students

Minnesota colleges launch push for more international students

This just in … “Study Minnesota” Consortium Launched to Attract International Students  A group of Minnesota educational institutions – including public and private colleges and universities, community colleges, English language institutes and high schools – has formed Study Minnesota, a consortium to promote Minnesota as a destination for international students. “Study consortiums exist to help Read more →
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How Minnesota fared in the U.S. News college rankings

How Minnesota fared in the U.S. News college rankings

It’s that time of year again, and here’s where Minnesota colleges and universities place in this year’s U.S. News & World Report college rankings. As I’ve mentioned in years past, those rankings — as unfair, incomplete and possibly inaccurate as they are – are what a lot of colleges and higher-ed experts love to hate. Read more →
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Metro State payroll snafus leave summer employees underpaid

Metro State payroll snafus leave summer employees underpaid

Metropolitan State University biology professor and Inter Faculty Organization leader John Schneider emails colleagues about an inquiry ordered into university payroll problems that have kept many employees from receiving pay, promotions and other compensation increases this summer: “The audit will certainly find flaws.” Faculty and staff have been asked to review their pay stubs for Read more →
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Notes in the Margins: Rankings, the loan bubble and the college shakeout

US News & World Report Releases Best National Universities 2014 Ranking Despite changes in the methodology for U.S. News & World Report’s annual best colleges rankings, the list of top national universities was once again dominated by Ivy League schools and elite institutions like Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (The Huffington Post) U.S. News’ College Rankings Read more →
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An unexpected benefit of going back to college

An unexpected benefit of going back to college

Need to trim the ole’ middle-age waistline — perhaps take off a few dozen pounds? Go to college. That did the trick for MinnPost media-writer-on-hiatus David Brauer. When I interviewed him recently about how he’d just finished his degree at the the University of Minnesota, he told me the U helped him drop 30 pounds  Read more →
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How the University of Minnesota fared on the WSJ’s “Grid of Shame”

How the University of Minnesota fared on the WSJ’s “Grid of Shame”

The Gophers edged into truly respectable territory for the first time in this year’s Wall Street Journal Grid of Shame. The grid, based on information compiled by the paper, rates football teams from 125 major colleges in their performance both on the field and off. The horizontal axis shows how strong the colleges and universities Read more →
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Duluth among most scenic U.S. college towns

Duluth among most scenic U.S. college towns

Duluth, home to campuses such as the University of Minnesota- Duluth, The College of St. Scholastica and Lake Superior College, has been named among America’s 10 Most Scenic College Towns by DreamPlanGo. Here’s what it had this to say about the town: Minnesota’s beloved North Shore city is situated on the southern tip of Lake Superior. Read more →
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Notes in the Margins: Bush, internship roadblocks and profs’ free speech

JPMorgan to stop making student loans: The biggest U.S. bank concluded that competition from federal government programs and increased scrutiny from regulators had limited its ability to expand the business. (Reuters via Slate) Court Upholds Speech Rights of Public University Professors A public university professor had a First Amendment right to criticize the management of his school, a federal Read more →
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