MnSCU News Watch
July 10, 2009
Minnesota headlines
Community colleges boom during the bust
Star Tribune
Summer on the wooded Normandale Community College campus in Bloomington is anything but slow this year. … The state’s biggest community college is swelling with students who want to retool their skills as they ride out the recession.
http://www.startribune.com/local/50315102.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoa
SCSU education dean appointed
St. Cloud Times
St. Cloud State University announced today that Glen Palm has been appointed interim dean of the College of Education. Palm, a professor and chair in the Department of Child and Family Studies, replaces Kate Steffens … .
http://www.sctimes.com/article/20090708/NEWS01/107080040/1009
Colleges bank on early retirement to balance budgets
Minnesota Public Radio
Minnesota colleges hope to use early retirement as a way to help balance their budgets. Higher education officials say offering retirement incentives to older employees is a better option than laying off younger workers.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/07/06/early_retirement/
Local editorials and opinion
Editorial: Stadium ‘bubble’ is a good investment
Rochester Post-Bulletin
Mike Madden, coach of the John Marshall/Lourdes high school lacrosse team, admits that the weather this spring wasn’t much of a problem for his squad. A few practices and games were a bit brisk, but rain was seldom an issue.
http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews
National headlines
UW regents approve 5.5% tuition increase
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Students attending four-year schools in the University of Wisconsin System will see a 5.5% base tuition increase along with jumps in student fees and room and board rates, under a budget approved by the Board of Regents on Thursday.
http://www.jsonline.com/newswatch/50367987.html
Duncan Presses NEA on Merit Pay, Tenure
Education Week Teachers’ unions must be willing to reconsider seniority provisions, rework tenure provisions, and work with districts to create fair ways of incorporating student-achievement growth in teacher evaluation and compensation, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said today.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/07/02/36neaduncan
Jill Biden Says Community Colleges Are a Key U.S. Export
New York Times
Community colleges could become a tool to help economic recovery in the United States and a model for developing countries debating how to improve their education systems, Jill Biden, the wife of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and a longtime teacher, said Tuesday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/world/europe/08iht-biden.html?ref=global-home
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