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St. Cloud State staffers to be offered early retirement

St. Cloud State University is identifying which non-faculty employees to offer Board Early Separation Incentives — offers similar to the one made to faculty, the St. Cloud Times reports. The could come by the first week of March. They’re part of a move to cut a projected $14 million budget deficit in the fiscal 2012 year.…
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An odd — or inspiring — attitude toward college applications

University of Texas senior Dan Treadway writes in The Huffinton Post: Applying to schools is the fun part. It’s a blast to imagine yourself in different parts of the country, waving from a postcard while you traverse the mountains that I thought existed in the state of Texas. We need to hook this guy up…
by Alex Friedrich

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The upside of getting a college application deferral letter

University of San Francisco professor Ruth Starkman says it gives an early admissions candidate freedom: Consider the deferral letter like any other job application where the employer has said the vetting process is incomplete and asks you to wait. Now you have two options: You are no longer bound to that school and may have indeed…
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Notes in the Margins: France, pharma and laptop crashes

Online Role-Playing Games Cause Students To Miss Classes, Lose Sleep A new study by a University of the Rockies graduate student has found that it’s fairly common for students miss school, meals, sleep and social activities because of online game playing. (Huffington Post) CU-Boulder: No ‘Incompletes’ Due To Laptop Crash The students in University of…
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How some students underestimate community colleges

In a recent questionnaire on Minnesotans’ views of two-year colleges, Lynda Milne of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system said to make no mistake: Two-year colleges are no cakewalk. Q: What kinds of students should attend community colleges? A: Those with strong motivation and goals: either to transfer…
by Alex Friedrich

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So what's the big deal about a stinkin' 4.0 GPA?

Looks like a few people were miffed by the post Six things could ruin a 4.0, which I’d picked up from USA Today. They found it ludicrous that study abroad or smart roommates would damage a good GPA, or questioned the need for a 4.0 altogether. Katie Zerwas wrote: Discouraging students from taking part in…
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Why children need to live with rejection

Counselor Sue Biemeret warns about the consequences of children not facing up to the potential for rejection from their favorite colleges: I often worry about the student who compiles a long list of colleges where admission is iffy for every single school except for the one they have deemed their “safety school.” And I also…
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10 questions a prof wants to ask her students

College professor Sylvia Lopez lets loose on her freshmen in a USA Today blog post: 1. Why do you always ask me what we are doing next lecture if it’s right there in the syllabus you are holding? 2. Do you really think I’m blind and can’t see you blatantly texting underneath your desk? 3.…
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How DREAM Act supporters are reacting to its failure

Fellow Argo-network blogger Leslie Berestein Rojas writes in Multi-American that DREAM Act supporters aren’t giving up despite this weekend’s defeat: The Dream Act supporters in Los Angeles said they would keep pushing for the legislation in the future. Several different versions of the measure have been introduced since 2001, and while many said they were…
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