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How Eric Kaler's teaching was rated

How Eric Kaler's teaching was rated

Having just posted a look at RateMyProfessors.com, I thought I’d look up the University of Minnesota’s president-designate, Eric Kaler. (Update: This is just for fun.) Whoa — nice score. It’s from his University of Delaware days. He’s got no chili pepper, but hey — it’s the engineering department.
by Alex Friedrich

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Why it's problematic to rate professors

Eustress via Wikimedia Commons Think you’re hot stuff, eh? We’ll be the judge of that. Minnesota State University Mankato student reporters have done a piece on classmates’ experiences with RateMyProfessors.com — the bane of many faculty — just after the university came off not-so-hot in rankings that used the site’s data. The Reporter’s piece —…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why sabbaticals are under the gun

Incoming Iowa House Speaker Kraig Paulsen, a Republican, joins other critics in questioning whether college faculty sabbaticals are just a long paid vacation at a time when other public employees are suffering budget cuts: “Why should the taxpayers of Iowa be paying to basically give these folks a year off from teaching? It’s as simple…
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What American college football coaches are making this year

When the University of Minnesota hired Jerry Kill, I posted a chart showing 2009 data on salaries and records for head football coaches within the Big Ten. Today USA Today has a list of 2010 salaries for 120 schools listed alphabetically by institution. Below is just a snippet. Get the full chart here. College football…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why the U of Minnesota Board of Regents needs a shakeup

The Minnesota Daily argues that the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents is a rubber-stamp body that has long been complacent: Meet the Board of Regents. There are only 12 of them, and they’ve been responsible for approving the president’s proposed tuition hikes year after year. Very few of them chirp a word in healthy…
by Alex Friedrich

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Video: Lake Superior College's thing about robots

Video: Lake Superior College's thing about robots

Robotic waiters, anyone? This year’s batch of students in Lake Superior College’s Integrated Manufacturing program has had to design and build robots that can carry two paper cups filled with water for 20 feet — all in a race next week, HowieBlog.com reports. (The video above is from the 2008 competition involving water balloons.) I…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: WikiLeaks, SweeTango and sign language

Colleges and Students Would Benefit From White House Tax Compromise Among the expiring tax breaks the deal would extend are a research-and-development tax credit and a trio of deductions and credits for college tuition. (chronicle.com) Why WikiLeaks Is Bad for Scholars The cumulative effect of governments’ likely responses will make it harder for political scientists…
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DREAM Act: What it could mean financially

With a possible vote on the DREAM Act tomorrow, I suggest you check out this piece by an immigration reporter, Leslie Berestein Rojas, who’s part of the Argo blogger network that I’m in. Her blog, Multi-American, has this roundup of reports and estimates of what its financial impact would be if implemented.
by Alex Friedrich

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How liberal arts colleges need to help their students

Katherine S. Brooks, director of Liberal Arts Career Services at the University of Texas at Austin, names a cause of the “decline” in the liberal arts: Unfortunately, many liberal-arts colleges generally are not doing enough to help their students connect to the job market—and unfortunately some don’t want to or don’t see career preparation as…
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New bus options include Normandale, U of Minnesota

In case you missed this in the Star Tribune’s coverage of the new $5 million, first-of-its-kind bus terminal that opened in the median of Interstate 35W at 46th Street in south Minneapolis: Local Metro Transit buses will bring passengers to the new station to catch express buses to downtown Minneapolis, the University of Minnesota or…
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