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NEWS | January 2007

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Policy agenda meets favorable reaction

The Minnesota Private College Council’s Education Agenda for the Common Good is receiving growing support from the community. Find out more about the five steps the agenda proposes and see who has endorsed it. Read full article
 
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Legislative Action Network helps students and advocates be heard

One of the ways we reach policymakers is through the Legislative Action Network. This online tool provides a means for sharing your views on higher education issues. Read what our network participants are saying — and consider joining yourself. Read full article
 
37% of mothers are college grads

What does it mean to be a first-generation student?

Learn what “first-generation” student means and why this group is receiving so much attention in higher education circles. Read full article
 
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Reason four (10 reasons Minnesota needs private colleges)

Attracting brain power

  • As an importer of undergraduate students, we attract more international students and more students from other states than do either the state universities or the University of Minnesota.
  • Two-thirds of our graduates, regardless of their “home” state, stay in Minnesota, adding to the state’s skilled workforce and tax base.
 
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BRIEFS

  • The National Conference of State Legislatures in its report, Transforming Higher Education suggests that the U.S. can do much better with higher education policy and calls on legislatures and citizens for reform.
  • The new Science Museum of Minnesota exhibit, Race: Are We So Different?  is powerful, challenging and on display through May 6.
  • Jeffrey Highland, Ph.D., has been named interim president at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.
  • A recent American Council on Education poll shows a gap between what policymakers and the public think about U.S. competitiveness and math and science education.
  • The updated MPCC publication, Diversifying as we Grow (2006), PDF (296 KB) reveals a more than 75 percent increase in enrollment of freshmen of color since 1996.
  • Keep these relative quantities in mind when hearing state budget figures: one million seconds equals 11 days; one billion seconds equals 32 years.
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