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On Campus Blog

How to turn financial aid into munchies, booze — and fees

University of North Dakota senior Gerbert tells CNBC what he doesn’t like about the “Higher One” debit card, which holds students’ excess financial aid for a charge: “I don’t like the fact that someone’s taking money from money I borrowed.” CNBC also asks: Is it wise to outfit students with a card that lets them…
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Why that instructor-edition textbook is valuable

Why that instructor-edition textbook is valuable

This Minnesota Daily story sounds like a twist on the textbook market shenanigans I wrote about in October: Some entrepreneurs buy instructor editions at 20 cents on the dollar and re-sell them to distributors at more than triple that price, said Richard Hull, executive director of the Text and Academic Authors Association.
by Alex Friedrich

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Memorial service today for St. Thomas professor who died in Christmas Day fall

Memorial service today for St. Thomas professor who died in Christmas Day fall

The University of St. Thomas news service reports that a memorial service will be held this evening for John Rohwer, chair of the St. Thomas Health and Human Performance Department, who died Christmas Day after he fell off his roof while shoveling snow. He was 64. The memorial service will be at 6:30 p.m. at King…
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Cox: We've trashed alternatives to college

Blogger Justin Cox quotes Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe on how “alternatives” to college have gotten a bad rap in the past few decades — and why that’s hurting us: “Anything that’s not a four-year degree has become alternative. Once upon a time, alternative meant another way to get to the place you’d like to…
by Alex Friedrich

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How college strengthens a class-based society

Lumina Foundation senior adviser Gordon Davies writes in The Huffington Post why the “best” higher-ed institutions have had to abandon their original mission of serving the public and instead become “engines of inequality”: The formerly blue-collar commuter institution now is a flashy residential university seeking a high place in a magazine’s ratings. The land grant…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Free speech, cell phones and the Common Application

Most Schools Violate Free Speech Act, New Study Shows Two thirds of colleges maintain speech codes that violate students’ First Amendment rights, according to a new report released by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). (Huffington Post) On Average, Students Check Phones 1 To 5 Times During Class College students use cell phones…
by Alex Friedrich

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One reason college grad rates are too low?

In discussing the problem of low college graduation rates, The Free Press of Mankato mentions a possible cause: Because large lecture hall classes for freshmen are cheap, colleges can have a perverse incentive by having fewer upperclassmen. It doesn’t elaborate.
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How to make college campuses diverse

This fall we read why Winona State University has a higher-than-average rate of diversity compared to its local public-sector neighbors. Recently The Hechinger Report lauded Minnesota private colleges for their success in creating and keeping diverse student bodies, telling U.S. higher-ed institutions: They’d do well to pay a little attention to some Minnesota success stories.…
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Photos: More winter-holiday campus images

If you haven’t taken down your Christmas tree at home yet — and if you have, then we should talk — perhaps you’ll still enjoy this. Last week I had colleges and universities send in photos, slideshows and video clips showing winter or the holidays on campus. I posted what I got, but here are…
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What colleges should consider when connecting with students online

Jakob Nielsen, principal of the research firm Nielsen Norman Group, commenting on his group’s report, which says organizations misunderstand how students use the Web: “While it’s no surprise that organizations targeting college students try to reach them on the Web, they’re mistaken if they think the best path is through social networking sites. Sites like…
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