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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.

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Why Bethel University is fighting the U.S. Department of Education

Why Bethel University is fighting the U.S. Department of Education

Bethel University is challenging sanctions imposed by the U.S. Department of Education, which says the school has flunked its assessment of financial health. Federal officials have given the school until later this month to post a multimillion-dollar letter of credit. But the university’s finance chief says Bethel is doing fine, and that the federal assessment…
by Alex Friedrich

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When MOOC interactions are better than those on campus

When MOOC interactions are better than those on campus

In speaking to faculty for my story on how the University of Minnesota’s experiment with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is going, I heard several times that the anonymity of online interactions has enabled a few students to forget their manners sometimes. (That, as well all know, has been a common online problem for years.)…
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Notes in the Margins: China, the NSA and the elimination of tuition

NSA Recruiters Taken Apart By Ravenous University Of Wisconsin Badgers  A duo showed up at the University of Wisconsin, hoping to sell students attending a summer language program at the school on the idea of working for the NSA. The audience — comprised mainly of grad students and a few members of a local high school class…
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Why are federal agents at St. Cloud State?

Why are federal agents at St. Cloud State?

St. Cloud State University chemistry professor Jack McKenna tells MPR reporter Conrad Wilson why he met with FBI agents on Tuesday: “They were investigating the effect of transcript alterations, the removal of grades and the possible impact on financial aid eligibility.” Wilson reported on the mysterious disappearance of grades from transcripts last month. University spokesman…
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UMN faculty: MOOCs have made us rethink learning

UMN faculty: MOOCs have made us rethink learning

The University of Minnesota is underway with its first wave of the U’s free Massive Open Online Courses, and the verdict so far: It’s a lot of work. But professors are awed by the sheer reach their words have. And when they bring thousands of students and experts from all over the world to talk…
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Four Minnesota colleges called Red Flag Schools in USA Today

Four Minnesota colleges called Red Flag Schools in USA Today

USA Today has analyzed federal data to come up with a table of “Red Flag Schools” — those whose student-loan default rates are greater than their graduation rates. For-profits and community colleges dominated the list, and four Minnesota schools were present. You can see them above in the “Minn” section. The article mentions a big…
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Tommie President Sullivan: No proselytizing, just debating

Tommie President Sullivan: No proselytizing, just debating

A Chronicle of Higher Education story on the growing number of lay people leading Roman Catholic colleges includes Julie Sullivan, who earlier this year was named to lead the University of St. Thomas. Its nugget on Sullivan: She said this spring that she was keen to preserve the university’s traditions. “I hope they’re not changed,”…
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Notes in the Margins: Petraeus, obesity and unauthorized Arizona students

Obesity Tweet “not part of research” A Tweet sent by a University of New Mexico psychologist, which suggested that obese people do not have the willpower to complete a PhD, was not, as its author had claimed, “part of a research project”, the institution has concluded. (Times Higher Education) CUNY is Paying David Petraeus $200,000 to…
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