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On Campus Blog

How easy it is to cheat in online courses

This guy gives new meaning to the term professional student: I have completed countless online courses. Students provide me with passwords and user names so I can access key documents and online exams. In some instances, I have even contributed to weekly online discussions with other students in the class. This is the professional paper…
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Confessions of a professional paper writer

A man who makes money writing students’ college papers — including postgraduate-level stuff — slams the professors that make his job possible: For those of you who have ever mentored a student through the writing of a dissertation, served on a thesis-review committee, or guided a graduate student through a formal research process, I have…
by Alex Friedrich

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What politicians are thinking about U-Minnesota presidential finalist Eric Kaler

Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis, gives the Minnesota Daily an idea of the legislature’s big expectations of Eric Kaler, finalist for the presidency of the University of Minnesota: “I hope this guy is a super president,” Kahn said. “I hope he meets everybody’s expectations. I hope he’s a whiz at fundraising. I hope he’s a marvel…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Study abroad, executive pay data and the lack of a tuition crisis

Anxiety over cost, harsher judgments on how colleges are run Six out of 10 Americans now say that colleges today operate more like a business, focused more on the bottom line than on the educational experience of students. Further, the number of people who feel this way has increased by 5 percentage points in the…
by Alex Friedrich

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Chart: College executive compensation

Chart: College executive compensation

In its most recent annual compensation survey, the Chronicle of Higher Education has found 30 college and university presidents out of 448 who made more than $1 million in the 2008-09 year — up from 23 in the previous survey. Compensation comparisons may be tough because rules have changed the way institutions report their compensation…
by Alex Friedrich

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What Macalester thinks about a campus ban on bottled water

What Macalester thinks about a campus ban on bottled water

Macalester College is considering a ban on bottled water this fall following a proposal by student Clare Pillsbury, The Mac Weekly reports. Her proposal comes as bottled water has taken a hit nationally for both its cost and variable quality. A survey of students, faculty and staff showed: Students were generally in favor, with the…
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Poll: The effects of abolishing tenure

Here’s poll by the Atlantic magazine on what 30 college and university presidents thought would happen to their institutions if tenure were abolished immediately. Interestingly, the magazine saw little consensus or a “rallying cry” for either tenure supporters or opponents. Some chiefs talked about the pros and cons of ending it. But what would take…
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Why CliffsNotes may still be the best cheat sheet

Why CliffsNotes may still be the best cheat sheet

“CliffsNotes is one of the most thorough, one of the most insightful,” Professor Fisher said. “If a student wanted to use it along with the text, it would be worthwhile.” I swear that back in the day I read both the original novels and the CliffsNotes guides. Really. I was such a nerd that I…
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Why Bruininks and Cerra might not leave much behind at the U-Minnesota

Thomas Lee of MedCityNews writes about why the vision of outgoing University of Minnesota President Robert Bruininks and U med school Dean Frank Cerra is in doubt: The school already was facing shrinking state aid. But with Republicans unexpectedly set to seize control of the legislature and possibly the governor’s office – promising swift and…
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8 Things That Couldn't Survive Without Colleges

8 Things That Couldn't Survive Without Colleges

Not a bad 2-a.m.-over-a-bottle-of-wine discussion, eh? What parts of society would die if colleges and universities disappeared? Liz O’Neill puts out a not-so-serious list in The Huffington Post and gives a few reasons.I have to say that a few haven’t changed from my college days in the 80s, and some must be brand new. I’ve…
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