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How to conduct textbook arbitrage

“On my campus, there are students who’ll buy a psychology textbook that’s selling new at the bookstore for $160, buy it online for $26 and sell it back to the store for $69. A lot of kids are making it a cottage industry.” — Student Eric Cope of South Central College in Faribault, speaking in…
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How to improve online education

How to improve online education

I’m in a seminar on online education here at the conference for two-year college student leaders. Big topic. Most of the three dozen students in the room are taking classes online, and they’re here to give more personal feedback on the recent survey of online education carried out by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities…
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Finding out what Minnesota state college student leaders are thinking

I’m hoping to get a feel for what’s on students’ minds, whether it’s about tuition, textbooks or the gubernatorial race. (Or cafeteria food, for that matter.) So I’m off to attend a leadership summit today for students at the two-year colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. I hope to post some thoughts…
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Why choosing a roommate carefully is important

I’m not trying to be flip about this with the headline. Tensions between roommates aren’t just the stuff of The Odd Couple. My brother has had his share of situations in which he’s been stuck with creepy roommates who end up having anger-management problems or severe control-freak issues. My brother is a big teddy bear,…
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How Gustavus is commemorating gay student deaths

The Gustavian Weekly announces that in light of recent national incidents involving the bullying of gay students — and their suicides — and of Coming Out Week at Gustavus Adolphus, the theater and dance department and the student social justice theater troupe I Am We Are have planned a candlelight vigil for October 28 at…
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9 odd degree program cuts

9 odd degree program cuts

We’ve been suffering our own budget cuts here in Minnesota, and a number of classic degrees are going down for not meeting whatever metrics their institutions have set. Here’s a list by The Huffington Post that contains nine strange discontinued degrees at other colleges across the country. I noticed that most are from institutions I’ve…
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Obama appearance moved to Field House

This from the Minnesota Daily student newspaper: Due to the chance of rain, President Barack Obama will speak at the University Field House on Saturday instead of Northrop Mall. The venue is the only aspect of the event that will change; doors will still open at 12:30 pm and all other restrictions remain in place.…
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Chalk up another one to the Dekes

Young pledges hoping to join a University of Alberta fraternity were made to eat their own vomit, locked in a plywood box and deprived of sleep. Put another helping of trouble on the plate of Delta Kappa Epsilon, which is in the news nationally for both its Yale chapter, which chanted vulgarities about women, and…
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Notes in the Margins: Anti-MBAs, applications and death to the SAT

Death to the SAT! Robert Sternberg has argued that college admissions rely too heavily on standardized tests like the SAT and ACT, which he says overvalue analytical abilities at the expense of leadership qualities like creativity and wisdom. (fortune.com) Alcohol and caffeine drinks: the next student health problem? Three beers, a can of Red Bull…
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Questions to ask during a campus visit

Questions to ask during a campus visit

When you’re hitting a number of colleges on tour, you need to be prepared. In her U.S. News & World Report blog, The College Solution, Lynn O’Shaughnessy offers a slew of questions to ask. Print these out. Choose the ones most important to you, and let rip when you make your visit. (And don’t forget…
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