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Notes in the Margins: football, senioritis and outsourcing online education

Across the Pond: A Comparison of Key Data About British and U.S. Higher Education The gap between tuition at public institutions in England and the United States is narrowing, while the United States still spends more of its GDP on higher education. (chronicle.com) Student faces faces vehicular homicide charges over death of U alumna The…
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An ugly reason students avoid community colleges

While I was at the Bloomington leadership conference for two-year community college students on Friday, I was taken aback by the answers a few of them gave to a seminar question on why high school students don’t consider them in their post-graduate plans. The biggie: Stigma. One student told the group: The attitude was, “If…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why a student-built solar house has no buyers

Why a student-built solar house has no buyers

It seems like a bargain: a $1 million prize-winning solar-powered house for a starting bid of $200,000 — just above the Twin Cities median value. But buyers haven’t warmed to it, so the University of Minnesota student project still stands unwanted across the street from the Bell Museum in Minneapolis Why? A weak housing market.…
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Capella's new entrance exams to slow growth

The exclusiveness of some America colleges is itself an attraction for many applicants, but obviously for-profit colleges face a different dynamic. Minneapolis-based Capella Education Co., which will toughen admissions standards by instituting entrance exams for some bachelor’s applicants, expects enrollment growth to decline. (Remember: Growth would decline, not enrollment.) Such a prospect was enough to…
by Alex Friedrich

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Full-ride scholarships not so full

Full-ride scholarships not so full

Back in August, in a college finance story I mentioned the case of Rickey Batsell, a north Minneapolis student who is on a “full athletic scholarship” to the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff — but who still has a number of living expenses that aren’t covered. Looks like he’s not alone. Just for Division…
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Video: Talking gov candidates at U-Minnesota

Video: Talking gov candidates at U-Minnesota

MPR digital video intern Alex Gaterud talks to a professor and some students on the University of Minnesota campus about the gubernatorial campaign. There’s no ideological fire, but they do voice concern. One student says he finds the candidates “very underwhelming.” You can view the video here.
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Acknowledge the sports-entertainment complex

Duke University professor Charles T. Clotfelter says college faculty and administrators are wrong to ignore the “sports-entertainment complex”: For reasons that are peculiarly American, universities here have developed commercial-sports enterprises that have no counterpart anywhere else in the world. With clear-eyed rationality, they nourish their sports enterprises year after year because, contrary to their official…
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Where Fulbright students come from

Where Fulbright students come from

Wondering where the foreign Fulbright students on campus are coming from? This map from the Chronicle of Higher Education should give you an idea. Germany, Pakistan and Chile are in the lead.
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U-Minn., Augsburg, Carleton, St. Olaf are top Fulbright producers

Here’s a list of the top U.S. producers of Fulbright students for 2010-11. And here’s how we did here in Minnesota: Research institutions University of Minnesota – Twin Cities (12 awards/54 applicants) Masters institutions Augsburg College (4/7) Bachelors institutions Carleton College (11/24) St. Olaf College (5/23)
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One student's grumbling on textbooks

Heard this during a seminar on textbooks at Friday’s Minnesota state student leadership conference in Bloomington: In high school, you have 30 students in a class, and the school has 30 books. If you lose a book, you pay full price (to the school). Why can’t we do it that way in college? Seems reasonable…
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